Part of your responsibilities as a medical assistant will be to make sure that health-care claims are processed accurately. When accurate claims are sent to payers, physicians receive the maximum appropriate payment for the services they provide.

As a medical assistant, you will handle patients' questions about their health-care plans and claims. You will reviewpatients' insurance coverage, explain the physician's fees, estimate what charges payers will cover, estimate how much patients should pay, and prepare complete and accurate health-care claims for patients.