Medical Assistant

About the Role

As a Medical Assistant at Virginia Mason Franciscan Health, you will support clinical operations and deliver quality patient care alongside physicians, ensuring attentive and professional service.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist physicians with clinical duties, take patient histories, and administer injections.
• Support examinations and procedures, and perform laboratory and radiological examinations.
• Coordinate and schedule patient/provider services, maintain provider schedules, prepare charts, coordinate pre-authorizations and referrals, and manage insurance updates, filing, and records.
• Serve as the primary patient contact, answer phones, schedule and confirm appointments, explain appointment logistics, inform patients of delays, and route calls.
• Perform phone and in-person screening.
• Manage office supplies and patient education materials.
• Coordinate durable medical equipment delivery/return.
• Sort mail and communications.
• Facilitate rooming by taking medical histories and vital statistics, obtaining last visit notes and/or lab results, and preparing patients for exams and procedures.
• Explain tests and results and inform patients of outcomes.
• Perform specimen collections, capillary draws, injections (intradermal, subcutaneous, IM), and venipuncture.
• Perform waived testing (glucose/urine) and medication and vaccine administration.
• Assist with minor procedures and sterile/aseptic techniques.
• Maintain standard precautions by cleaning and organizing exam rooms, sterilizing equipment, disposing of bio-hazardous materials, and handling autoclave wrapping.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• High school diploma or GED
• Graduation from an accredited Medical Assistant training program, or validation of equivalent military training (e.g., Hospital Corpsman)
• Active Washington State Medical Assistant – Certified licensure
• May hold Interim MA-C with a probationary period to obtain permanent MA-C licensure within six (6) months of hire or before expiration of the Interim certification.
• BLS-RQI
• Six (6) months of customer experience
• Strong clinical skills
• Attention to detail
• Ability to work effectively alongside physicians and other care team members

Qualifications

• One (1) year of Medical Assistant – Certified experience (Preferred)
• Knowledge of insurance concepts (Preferred)

Pay Range: $27.25 - $42.23 /hour