Required:

• Knowledge of medical terminology.
• Knowledge of various insurance plans such as PPOs, HMOs, EPOs, Medicare and Medi-cal.
• Skill in establishing, coordinating and maintaining patient and administrative files. 
• Ability to maintain a friendly, caring demeanor with patients.
• Skill in operating computer terminal for processing and accessing patient data. 
• Ability to act as liaison between physician and patients and their families, using good verbal and written communication skills. 
• Typing skills to prepare correspondence with speed/accuracy. 
• Skill in writing grammatically correct routine medical and business correspondence. 
• Skill in setting priorities which accurately reflect relative importance of job responsibilities. 
• Ability to work independently and follow through with assignments with minimal (or no) direction from supervisor.
• Ability to coordinate activities to guarantee timely completion of teamwork (usually under high pressure). 
• Ability to maintain confidentiality.