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General Information

Work Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA
Onsite or Remote
Fully On-Site
Work Schedule
Monday-Friday 8:00am-5:00pm
Posted Date
12/30/2025
Salary Range: $26.42 - 37.49 Hourly
Employment Type
2 - Staff: Career
Duration
Indefinite
Job #
28105

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

The Department of Ophthalmology's Retina Division is seeking a reliable and detail-oriented Administrative Assistant to support daily clinic operations and deliver excellent patient service. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
  • Perform patient check-in/out
  • Collect co-pays and process patient payments
  • Secure authorizations and referrals
  • Schedule patient appointments
  • Answer calls route as needed
  • Track status of patients' test or imaging

Salary Range: $26.42-37.49 Hourly

Job Qualifications

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 act as liaison between physician and patients and their families, using good verbal and written communication skills.
  • Skill in speaking clearly, distinctly, and courteously using appropriate vocabulary and grammar to obtain and convey information to both physicians and patients and other individuals at various organizational levels. 
  • 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 a friendly, caring demeanor with patients, most of whom are very fearful and stressed.