Responsibilities and skills
- Must be familiar with all the standard secretarial tools, medical secretaries.
- Must be comfortable with the special terminology of medicine and pharmacology.
- Must also be familiar with the billing procedures required by insurance companies and government programs like Medicare
- As well as know what forms hospitals and labs required and how to complete them.
- Making sure that an office library has the latest medical journals and publication.
- Medical records management
- As may medical transcription
- Ordering medical supplies