Advanced Medical Assistant- MDPCP
Position Objective:
Advanced Medical Assistant
The Advanced Medical Assistant is an essential part of the Advanced Primary Care Team and facilitates meeting the goals of the Maryland Primary Care Program and Value Based Contracts. Their main responsibilities are to coordinate patient care, provide patient outreach and education and identify barriers that may affect the patient from meeting his/her treatment goals. The Advanced Medical Assistant will perform a variety of administrative and clinical tasks to support the provider/practice to ensure the patient receives the right care at the right time and right place to decrease hospital re-admission and unnecessary utilization of Emergency Room and/or Urgent Care. The Advanced Medical Assistant maintains knowledge of care coordination/management, behavioral health resources, CRISP Portal/Reports, Value Based Contract Portals, EPIC Registries and patient self-management tools/resources.
Essential Job Duties:
- Monitor and validate patient attribution to the practice and the care teams within the practice (known as empanelment).
- Ensure patients identified as increased risk receive targeted, proactive, relationship-based (longitudinal) care coordination and/or care management.
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