Description
As a Medical Scribe, you will assist physicians and optometrists with various administrative aspects of patient care in the Retina clinic in Westwood. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Recording patient history, exam findings, progress notes, procedure notes
• Pre-chart of upcoming new and establish patients
• Follow-up of laboratory and diagnostic results
• Monitoring the completion of medical record documentation to assess for charts completeness and will send incomplete charts back to appropriate physicians
• Authorizing medications refills under the supervision of the physician
• Assisting other office staff in abstracting, scanning, and cataloging records

Salary Range: $21.93-30.74 Hourly

Senate Bill 525 was signed into law by Governor Newsom in October 2023. Starting June 1, 2024, SB525 sets a new $23 minimum wage for nonexempt healthcare workers and raises the exempt employee salary threshold to $1,380/week (equivalent to $5,980/month or $71,760/year).

1. As defined under SB525, healthcare workers are defined as employees who are involved in the provision of "health care services," which means "patient care-related services including nursing; caregiving; services provided by medical residents, interns, or fellows; technical and ancillary services; janitorial work; housekeeping; grounds keeping; guard duties; business office clerical work; food services; laundry; medical coding and billing; call center and warehouse work; scheduling; and gift shop work; but only where such services support patient care".

2. Employees (career, contract, student, per diem) in the UCLA Health medical facilities (e.g. Ronald Reagan Medical Center,

Santa Monica UCLA Hospital, Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital, etc.) meet these criteria.