Exciting Physician Assistant Opportunity at Allergy Partners

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

Clinical Responsibilities

• Takes patient history, and records the information in the patient's chart.
• Confers with physicians about new patient findings and potential diagnosis and treatment.
• Exercises professional judgment regarding consultation with supervising physicians concerning appropriate treatment.
• Develops and implements patient care plans, instructs and counsels patients, and records progress.
• Prescribes medications to the extent allowable by state guidelines and clinic regulations.
• Provides diagnosis and treatment services to established patients.
• Prescribes medications, treatments, and immunotherapy in accordance with physician protocols.
• Formulates and updates patient care plans; consults with physicians as needed.
• Performs patient education duties; shows immunotherapy videos, hands out brochures, and directs patients to specific Internet sites for more information.
• Acts as backup and puts patients in rooms as needed.
• Transmits prescription requests to pharmacy; documents action in patient chart and obtains physician signature of approval.
• Oversees appointment bookings and ensures emergency situations are scheduled appropriately; maintains timely flow of patients
• Returns patient phone messages at designated times throughout the day; documents action taken in patient chart.
• Triages incoming telephone calls; instructs patient and family regarding treatment instruction, then documents action taken in patient chart.

COMPENSATION INFORMATION

• Actual compensation may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

• PA degree required.
• Current licensure maintained.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:

• At least two years of experience in a physician office or hospital.
• Ability to make independent decisions about patient care.
• Experience diagnosing and treating patients.
• Working knowledge of managed care basics, and experience working with a managed care and Medicare population.
• Comfortable using email and interacting with Internet applications.
• Knowledge of practice management and word processing software.
• Good communication skills.
• Neat, professional appearance.

About Allergy Partners

With its local offices and country-wide support, Allergy Partners offers the best parts of independent and group practice.

Our leadership team and operational efficiencies support our physicians by
allowing them to spend more time with their patients and less time dealing with administrative hassle.

• Regional and local operations teams
• Central billing office
• Marketing
• Centralized extract formulation
• Best-in-class information technology
• Single-database, allergy-specific EMR
• Centralized biologics
• Specialty pharmacy
• Credentialing team
• Telemedicine

Linked across the country by this network of support, each hub practice
operates as a unique entity, meeting the needs of its community and
satisfying the professional goals of each doctor. Local physicians collectively make decisions that impact their own practice, including marketing initiatives, call schedule, hours of operation and selecting new providers, to name a few. All physicians, through our Clinical Governance Board, work together with our executive leadership to help shape the future direction of Allergy Partners and fulfill our vision.

With physician leadership at every level, Allergy Partners has grown over four decades to become the largest single-specialty allergy practice in the country. We are now in 20 states, with 150 allergists and 130 locations.