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title: Medical Office Assistant II at MedStar Health
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| **Company** | [MedStar Health](https://www.foundrole.com/companies/medstar-health?utm_source=ai_markdown) |
| **Location** | Washington, DC |
| **Salary** | $22.22/hr - $33.79/hr |
| **Type** | Full Time |
| **Posted** | Sep 22, 2026 |
## Description

**About the Job**  

**Department: OR-Nursing 3rd Floor  
Status: Full-time, 40-hours per week  
Schedule: Day Shift**

***This Full-Time position will be represented by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 722.***

 **General Summary of Position**  
Provides a variety of moderately complex medical office support/clerical/secretarial functions for one or more medical professional or research staff.

**Primary Duties and Responsibilities**

- Receives and screens telephone callers and visitors to the office. Responds to a variety of inquires referring the inquiries of a technical nature to an appropriate staff member. Takes and forwards messages.
- Schedules patients' appointments and assists in the scheduling of the patients' appointments with other medical offices. Coordinates physician(s)' calendar including patient appointments surgeries meetings etc.
- Transcribes dictation including patient narrative and/or discharge summaries general correspondence and memoranda. Types letters requisitions reports etc. from handwritten copy and/or notes.
- Answers requests for new prescriptions and refills; submits requests to physician for authorization. Calls in prescriptions to pharmacy.
- Completes preliminary registration for new patients and updates information on existing patients (inpatients and/or outpatients); obtains necessary recertification/verification/ referrals signatures copies of insurance cards etc. May coordinate pre-admission testing.
- Enters physician charges into billing system ensuring appropriate insurance coverage and providing Patient Billing Services with appropriate referrals authorizations and operative reports. May review ICD-10 codes; works with medical personnel to reconcile errors and inconsistencies. Responds to billing related inquires from patients and/or Patient Billing Services. Accepts co-payments; may deposit payments or forward them to appropriate personnel.
- Establishes and maintains a variety of files records logs charts etc. including departmental files. Retrieves files records charts and/or the information therein as necessary.
- Receives opens and date stamps incoming mail. Reviews sorts and/or directs mail to the appropriate person in accordance with departmental policy.
- May prepare exam room(s) between patients based on procedure and may assist physician in exam/procedure.
- Maintains office supplies and may assist in maintaining medical supply inventory for the department.
- May compile information for procedure and on-call schedules. Posts and distributes schedules to appropriate personnel revising schedules as necessary.

**Minimal Qualifications**  
**Education**

- High School Diploma or GED required
- May require up to l year of technical or other specialized training; and depending on assigned department training in secretarial/medical office support (e.g.: word processing medical terminology medical insurance/billing etc.).

**Experience**

- 1 to 3 years experience as a secretary preferably in a doctor's office or medical environment required

**Knowledge Skills and Abilities**

- Requires the ability to read and write; and knowledge of grammar and arithmetic including fractions and decimals.
- May require the use of standard office/medical equipment (i.e. typewriter personal computer data terminal on-line printer calculator telephone facsimile copier sterilizing equipment blood pressure cuff or tables); the preparation comparison or checking of reports records and related data; and basic use of formulas charts tables drawings and knowledge of their application.

**This position has a hiring range of**  

USD $22.22 - USD $33.79 /Hr.
## Skills

- Calendar Management
- Personal Computers
- Medical Billing
- Clerical Skills
- Doctor
- Algorithms
- Blood Pressure
- Arithmetic
- Billing
- Purchase Requisitioning
- Medical Furniture
- Icd-10 Coding
- Secretarial Skills
- On-Call Coverage
- Communication
- Discharge Summaries
- Medical Office Administration
## Benefits

- Health Insurance

## How to Apply

[Apply for this position](https://www.foundrole.com/jobs/medical-office-assistant-ii-at-medstar-health-01a0b3d0-f82c-7883-a5db-44ad6ac540dd?utm_source=ai_markdown)

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