Summary: A Career As A Medical Administrative Assistant

A medical administrative assist preforms many task in the medical atmosphere. The most generalized duties are; answering phones, greeting patients and or visitors, sorting through mail, bookkeeping, creating invoices, and ordering supplies. The more specialized duties include; scheduling patients appointments, procedures, and//or lab services, maintaining and updating patients medical records, processing insurance forms, assisting physicians or any medical personnel with transcribing dictation, writing correspondence, preparing a report or presentation. In 2012 there was over 50% of medical assistants that worked in a physicians' office (per the U.S. Bureau of Labor statistics [BLS]). Other medical assistants choose to work in hospitals, chiropractic office, optometry, podiatry, dentary, or an outpatient or a long-term care
The BLS reported that medical administrative assistants earned $29,960 annually in 2014. Per Payscale as of September 2015 medical assistants earned from $22,654 up to $53,756. It is reported by the BLS that between 2012 and 2022 the salary will increase by 29%. I learned that to be a medical administrative assistant there is no formal education needed, but you must have a high school diploma in order to be qualified. That is not to say that most employers do prefer an applicant to be certified and/or have passed an exam, or completed an accredited program. Even when you are certified or have an accredited program under your belt, there still is on-the-job training. The training begins once you are hired and can take up to a number of months to complete