Medical Support Assistant Job Description

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medical support assistant
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A Medical Support Assistant supports doctors with record-keeping, administrative work, and scheduling patient appointments. Their role is to work closely with doctors, nurses, and other medical staff in hospitals, medical clinics, and private practices. Their responsibilities are answering phone calls and emails, delivering messages to staff members, greeting patients and visitors, answering basic questions, maintaining patient records, updating medical data, organizing paperwork and opening files, verifying patient's insurance information, assisting doctors with patient examinations, collecting and documenting patient's health information, recording doctor's orders, scheduling appointments...

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    Avg Pay: $46K
    Jobs: 436
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    Avg Pay: $47K
    Jobs: 46,749

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    • Bachelor Degree in Health Care Management
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      Avg. Duration:48 monthsAvg. Fees:$24,571Type:Mostly full timeView more on Studyportals
    • Bachelor of Arts (b.a.) in Business
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      Avg. Duration:47 monthsAvg. Fees:$31,360Type:Mostly full timeView more on Studyportals
    • Bachelor Degree in English
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      Avg. Duration:48 monthsAvg. Fees:$34,429Type:Mostly full timeView more on Studyportals
    • Master of Business Administration (M.B.A) in Management
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      Avg. Duration:16 monthsAvg. Fees:$31,451Type:Mostly full timeView more on Studyportals
    • Bachelor Degree in Medical Science
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      Avg. Duration:48 monthsAvg. Fees:$33,826Type:Mostly full timeView more on Studyportals
    • Bachelor of Science (b.sc.) in Management
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      Avg. Duration:48 monthsAvg. Fees:$28,989Type:Mostly full timeView more on Studyportals
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    Annual Pay Estimate for Medical Support Assistant and Other Important Info

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    2.7 years
    $47K
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    3.10 years
    Entry
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    4
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