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Clinical Assistant -Medical Oncology -Full Time

Guthrie

Cortland, NYFull-time$17.4–25.66/hrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 4 days ago

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At a glance

Compensation
$17.4–25.66/hr
Location
Cortland, NY
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Clinical Assistant supports office operations in a medical oncology setting, including reception, patient interaction, scheduling, venipuncture, vital signs, chart coding, and medication and treatment precertification. The role assists providers, nurses, and cancer center staff with patient care, maintains documentation and supplies, and helps coordinate testing and medication authorizations.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Patient CareVenipunctureVital SignsICD-10 CodingPreauthorization

Qualifications

Approved Clinical or Medical Assisting Program or High School Diploma With Prior Clinical Assistance ExperiencePrior Clinical Assistant Experience or Patient Care ExperienceBasic Life Support

Full job description

Position Summary:

Assists in all aspects of office operations to include reception, patient interaction, scheduling patients, venipuncture for labs, and patient vital signs. Assigning ICD‐10 codes to patient charts, working with reimbursement programs and precertification’s for drugs, testing and treatments.

Education, License & Cert:

Graduate of an approved clinical/medical assisting program or High School Diploma with prior clinical assistance experience. Basic Life Support encouraged but not required.

Experience:

Prior experience as a clinical assistant preferred or experience with patient care in or outside of the office setting.

Essential Functions:

    1. Supports providers, nurses, and other cancer center staff with patient care.
  • a. Directs patients to and from examining room and prepares patients for examination by provider and follow up infusion as required.

  • b. Obtains vital signs, heights, and weights and documents in correct patient charts.

    1. Performs routine phlebotomies on patients scheduled for lab work.
  • a. Obtains labs and results and promptly gets them to ordering provider. b. Performs good infection control practices.

    1. Maintains patient charts and ensures appropriate documentation.
  • a. Ensures all documentation is complete in patients’ charts.

  • b. Helps answer telephone calls from patients, directs calls as needed, and documents call and intervention in patient chart.

    1. Ensures appropriate stock of supplies, equipment, and linen in patient exam rooms.
  • a. Stocks exam rooms and medication room with supplies.

  • b. Distributes laundry daily to exam rooms and changing area.

    1. Obtains preauthorization on medication, procedures, and testing as required.
  • a. Ensures authorization is completed on all required testing and medication prior to date of medication, procedure, or test.

Other Duties:

Other duties as assigned.

The pay for this position ranges from $17.40-$25.66 per hour.

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Joining the Guthrie team allows you to become a part of a tradition of excellence in health care. In all areas and at all levels of Guthrie, you’ll find staff members who have committed themselves to serving the community.

The Guthrie Clinic is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

The Guthrie Clinic is a non-profit, integrated, practicing physician-led organization in the Twin Tiers of New York and Pennsylvania. Our multi-specialty group practice of more than 500 physicians and 302 advanced practice providers offers 47 specialties through a regional office network providing primary and specialty care in 22 communities. Guthrie Medical Education Programs include General Surgery, Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, Anesthesiology and Orthopedic Surgery Residency, as well as Cardiovascular, Gastroenterology and Pulmonary Critical Care Fellowship programs. Guthrie is also a clinical campus for the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine.

How this job compares

Set against the 3,962 open Medical Assistant jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 2, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$17.4–25.66/hr
  • New York median$21–28/hr202 hourly ranges
  • US median$21–28/hr1,818 hourly ranges

This range's midpoint, $21.53/hr, is 10% below the New York median midpoint ($24/hr) — in the lowest quarter of Medical Assistant hourly ranges in New York.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 243 open Medical Assistant jobs in New York and 3,962 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Experience
Medical Assistant postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (1,748 postings).
Education
23 of the 3,962 open Medical Assistant jobs (under 1%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 2, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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