Receives and transcribes medical dictation to compose routine correspondence on a typewriter or word processor. Sets up and maintains files of a medical nature, demonstrating familiarity with healthcare subject area and relevant medical terminology. Compiles, figures and codes physicians' billing for submission to insurance companies for financial reimbursement.
Types reports using medical records to substantiate and verify reported information.
Prepares agendas for meetings and gathers and takes notes at meetings for use in updating medical case histories. Receives visitors to unit and answers telephone, routing calls to appropriate destination. Operates photocopying machine, opens and distributes mail and performs other routine support functions for a medical or health care unit. OR in operating complex machines. Requires understanding and using business or trades vocabulary or basic arithmetic to perform standard operating procedures.