Duties and Responsiblities: Administrative duties include: answering telephones, greeting patients, updating and filing patients' medical records, filling out insurance forms, handling correspondence, scheduling appointments, arranging for hospital admission and laboratory services, and handling billing and bookkeeping.

Salary: 82k

Profession On November 12, 2013, the Board of Trustees (BOT) of the American Association of Medical Assistants (AAMA) directed the AAMA Continuing Education Board to establish the Assessment-Based Recognition in Order Entry (ABR-OE) program for electronic health records (EHRs). Individuals who are granted this ABR-OE meet the "credentialed medical assistant" requirement under the September 5, 2012, rule of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs (Incentive Programs). The following are questions and answers about this assessment-based recognition program.

Education Doctorate degree