Medical Administrative Assistant

Summary: The wages for medical assistants depends on the level of skills, experience, and location.

The employment rate in the health care industry is continuously rising due to the growing and aging population, technological advances, and the increased interest in health care occupations. Employment growth will be driven by the increases in the number of group practices, clinics, and other health care facilities that need a high proportion of support personnel, most particularly the flexible medical assistants. Medical assisting is found to be a very challenging job and interesting job for those who enjoy working with people, work in a medical office, and make a difference in their community.

Medical assistants perform many administrative duties, may include answering phones, greeting patients, updating and filing patient’s medical records, filling out insurance forms, handling correspondence, scheduling appointments, arranging for hospital admission and laboratory services, handling billing, and bookkeeping. But, these duties may vary from office to office, depending on the location and size of the practice and practitioner’s specialty. But the question is, are the wages of medical assistants worth the

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