Overview
The Certified or Registered Medical Assistant plays a key role in keeping the practice running smoothly, providing both essential clinical support and administrative expertise. They partner closely with medical and nursing staff to guide patients through their visits, support examinations and treatments, and help create a seamless, patient‑centered experience.
Qualifications
- Registered Medical Assistant (RMA) – American Registry of Medical Assistants (ARMA)
- Certified Medical Assistant (NCCT) – National Center for Competency Testing (NCCT)
- Registered Medical Assistant (RMA) – American Allied Health (AAH)
- Certified Medical Assistant (CMA) – American Association of Medical Assistants (AAMA)
- Registered Medical Assistant (RMA) – American Medical Technologists (AMT)
- Nationally Registered Certified Medical Assistant (NRCMA) – National Association for Health Professionals (NAHP)
- Certified Clinical Medical Assistant (CCMA) – National Healthcareer Association (NHA)
- Basic Life Support (BLS) within 30 days – American Heart Association (AHA)
- Education requirement: High School Diploma or GED
Responsibilities
- Rooming patients and collecting chief complaint, family, social, surgical history, and completing medication reconciliation
- Conducting telephone communications with patients, families, pharmacies, and healthcare facilities
- Gathering and maintaining patient information via telephone per department policies
- Performing administrative tasks such as prior authorizations, appointment scheduling, benefits verification, and coordinating referrals/testing
- Completing office procedures per department competencies
- Performing procedures including breath tests, assisting with flexible sigmoidoscopy, HRA, rectal ultrasound, and glucose point‑of‑care testing
- Providing written instructions for procedures, medications, and follow‑up per provider direction
- Retrieving and providing condition‑specific education from approved sources per provider orders
- Administering medications per provider order
- Assisting with prescription refills per department protocols
- Calling medications into pharmacies, notifying patients of refills, and documenting in the EMR
- Performing MRI screening per protocol
- Generating result notes
- Initiating and performing breath tests
- Administering vaccines and injections
- Providing patient instructions
- Completing prior authorization processes
- Preparing charts for visits and procedures
- Assisting with minor procedures such as flexible sigmoidoscopy, rectal ultrasound, and high‑resolution anoscopy
- Performing and maintaining competency in high‑level disinfection and sterilization processes
About Us
Find it here.Discover the job, the career, the purpose you were meant for. At Carle Health, we're committed to fostering a workplace where every team member feels valued, respected and empowered, where passion and purpose come together to positively impact the lives of our patients and our communities. Find it all at Carle Health.
Our nearly 17,000 team members and providers work together to support patient care across central and southeastern Illinois. We’ve grown to include eight, award-winning hospitals and a multispecialty provider group with more than 1,500 doctors and advanced practice providers. We’re developing the next generation of providers and healthcare professionals through Carle Illinois College of Medicine, the world’s first engineering-based medical school, and Methodist College. Carle BroMenn Medical Center, Carle Foundation Hospital, Carle Health Methodist Hospital, Carle Health Proctor Hospital, Carle Health Pekin Hospital, and Carle Hoopeston Regional Health Center hold Magnet® designations, the nation’s highest honor for nursing care. We offer opportunities in several communities throughout central Illinois with potential for growth and life-long careers at Carle Health.
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Compensation and Benefits
The compensation range for this position is $18.33per hour - $29.69per hour. This represents a good faith minimum and maximum range for the role at the time of posting by Carle Health. The actual compensation offered a candidate will be dependent on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, the candidate’s experience, qualifications, location, training, licenses, shifts worked and compensation model. Carle Health offers a comprehensive benefits package for team members and providers. To learn more visit careers.carlehealth.org/benefits.