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General Information

Work Location: Los Angeles, USA
Onsite or Remote
Fully On-Site
Work Schedule
Monday-Friday 8am-5pm
Posted Date
03/31/2025
Salary Range: $33.02 - 43.56 Hourly
Employment Type
2 - Staff: Career
Duration
Indefinite
Job #
23216

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

We are seeking a skilled Ophthalmic Technician to join our Cornea-External Diseases Division. This role provides essential support to our clinics' physicians, assisting with clinical and some administrative tasks to ensure high-quality patient care. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: 

  • Conduct patient intake, including medical history, visual acuity tests, and dilation.
  • Perform refractions, topography, lensometry, and keratometry.
  • Manage and order supplies for eight exam rooms and a mino surgery room.
  • Maintain and calibrate ophthalmic instruments.
  • Provide administrative support, including scheduling, answering patient calls, and maintaining medical records, obtain care pre-authorizations and process patient billing. 

Salary Range: $33.02-43.56 Hourly

Job Qualifications

Required:

  • Two years’ experience working in a medical office including answering telephones, interacting with patients and familiarity with current billing practices including governmental plans.            
  • One year of experience scheduling patient appointments in computerized appointment scheduling system.    
  • Knowledge of ophthalmic medical terminology anatomy, physiology as well as disease of the eye and systemic disease that affect the eye. 
  • Knowledge of principles of the ophthalmic therapy, first aid and treatment of ocular and medical emergencies.    
  • Knowledge of ophthalmic medications and the proper instillation of these into the eye.
  • Knowledge of ophthalmic equipment and instrument sterilization techniques.
  • Ability to use ophthalmic equipment such as tonopen, slit lamp, va monitor, auto-refraction, chair and applanation tonometer.
  • Ability to organize and prioritize duties & task.
  • Ability to work under pressure over a busy workload. Flexibility ability to adapt to changing needs of department. 
  • Have interpersonal skills to maintain comfortable and cooperative working relationships with physicians, patients and co-workers.
  • Ability to work as a team member in a busy private practice.
  • Excellent punctuality and dependability.                  
  • Ability to interact calmly and effectively with patients with difficult personalities.

Preferred:

  • Experience registering patients in Epic/CareConnect system.
  • Experience working in a teaching environment.  

As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts a conditional offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; received notice of any allegations or are currently the subject of any administrative or disciplinary proceedings involving misconduct; have left a position after receiving notice of allegations or while under investigation in an administrative or disciplinary proceeding involving misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of misconduct with a previous employer.