Medical Administrative Assistant job description

Medical secretaries and administrative assistants are the one specialty inside the secretarial family with growth projected, 5 percent between 2025 and 2035, from 979,000 jobs to 1,026,100, while the wider occupation declines. The work is the business side of a practice: transcribing dictation, preparing reports for physicians, taking simple medical histories, arranging hospital admissions, and processing insurance payments. BLS says the role calls for familiarity with medical terminology and codes, records, and hospital or laboratory procedure, and notes that people in these roles may need extra training to pick the vocabulary up. Median pay was $45,930 in May 2025.