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How much do virtual medical assistant jobs pay per hour?

As of Aug 8, 2026, the average hourly pay for virtual medical assistant in Arizona is $22.74, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $19.04 and $25.53 per hour, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a virtual medical assistant?

To thrive as a Virtual Medical Assistant, you need a background in healthcare administration or medical assisting, familiarity with medical terminology, and strong organizational skills. Proficiency with electronic health records (EHRs), telehealth platforms, and secure communication systems is typically required. Excellent communication, attention to detail, and discretion help build trust with patients and support effective remote collaboration with healthcare teams. These skills ensure efficient virtual patient care, accurate record-keeping, and seamless coordination in a digital healthcare environment.

What is a virtual medical assistant?

A Virtual Medical Assistant is a remote professional who provides administrative and clinical support to healthcare providers via digital communication tools. They handle tasks such as scheduling appointments, managing patient records, processing billing and insurance claims, and sometimes assisting with telehealth visits. Virtual Medical Assistants help streamline healthcare operations, allowing doctors and clinics to focus more on patient care while ensuring efficient workflow. Their work is performed remotely, often from home or a centralized service center, making healthcare services more accessible and organized.

What are some common challenges virtual medical assistants face when supporting remote healthcare teams, and how can they overcome them?

Virtual Medical Assistants often encounter challenges such as coordinating across different time zones, maintaining clear communication with healthcare providers, and ensuring data security when handling sensitive patient information. To overcome these, it's important to establish consistent communication channels, be proactive in scheduling, and stay updated on HIPAA compliance best practices. Leveraging secure telehealth platforms and regularly checking in with team members can also help maintain workflow efficiency and patient care standards.

What is the difference between Virtual Medical Assistant vs Medical Secretary?

AspectVirtual Medical AssistantMedical Secretary
CredentialsMedical assisting certification or relevant trainingHigh school diploma; administrative or medical office training
Work EnvironmentRemote, often from homeMedical office or hospital setting
Employer & IndustryHealthcare providers, clinics, telehealth servicesHospitals, clinics, private practices
Common TasksPatient scheduling, data entry, basic medical documentationScheduling appointments, managing files, answering phones

While both roles support healthcare operations, Virtual Medical Assistants primarily work remotely handling clinical and administrative tasks, whereas Medical Secretaries typically work onsite managing administrative duties in medical offices. The roles overlap in scheduling and documentation but differ in work environment and specific responsibilities.

What does a virtual medical assistant do?

Virtual medical assistants perform administrative tasks to help a healthcare facility run smoothly. In this remote position, your responsibilities include entering patient data into files, maintaining a database of records, scheduling appointments for patients, and collecting information for patient health assessments online or over the phone. In some virtual medical assistant jobs, you also work with the medical billing staff to verify insurance coverage before the physician or other clinical staff provides treatment to a patient and submit billing information to insurance companies after the services are completed. Virtual medical assistants may also follow up with patients to check on the status of their condition or direct incoming calls to the appropriate medical professional.

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Infographic showing various Virtual Medical Assistant job openings in Arizona as of August 2026, with employment types broken down into 87% Full Time, and 13% Part Time. Highlights an 75% In-person, and 25% Remote job distribution, with an average salary of $47,292 per year, or $22.7 per hour.

Medical Assistant / Medical Front Office

Nextcare, Inc.

Tempe, AZ • On-site

$17.25 - $22.25/hr

Full-time

Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Retirement, PTO

Re-posted 23 days ago

NextCare Urgent Care rating

5.8

Company rating: 5.8 out of 10

Based on 38 frontline employees who took The Breakroom Quiz

774th of 887 rated healthcare providers

Job description

NextCare Introduction
NextCare strives to be the leader in high access healthcare, offering urgent care, occupational health, virtual health and primary care services to our patients. With offering services in eleven states (Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Texas, Virginia and Wyoming) and over 165 urgent care clinic locations, we offer exceptional, affordable care to patients across the country.
At NextCare, we constantly strive to provide you with the highest degree of caring, growth, integrity, results and teamwork. These essential core values form the foundation of our relationships with patients, customers, investors, partners and one another. Extraordinarily high-performance standards serve as critical guides for making important clinical and business decisions. The expression of these standards is evident in our behavior, our attitude, and our approach to our daily work. The product of our strict adherence to core values is the ability to harness tremendous organizational energy to achieve our goal of upholding the highest standard for quality and service within the high access healthcare. This unique combination of values, performance standards and commitment serves as the key to our success.
What we are looking for
NextCare Urgent Care is looking for an energetic and enthusiastic Medical Assistant that likes the challenge of a fast pace setting and working in a team environment. We are looking for customer-friendly and passionate employees to be a part of our growing organization where patients and employees are our top priority.
Responsibilities
The Medical Assistant will be caring for patients in the following capacity:
  • Assists provider with exams (including patient vitals), procedures and other processes related to direct patient care under direct supervision of the Provider and within the scope of practice of a Medical Assistant.
  • Administers all forms of medications per policy and Provider direction and adheres to all safety protocols and procedures for medication administration.
  • Will perform blood draws as per direction of the Provider
  • May be responsible for urine collection for various testing to include employer drug screens
  • May perform splinting and casting
  • Conduct various type physicals such as sports physicals
  • Performs other related duties specific to urgent care such as ear lavage, wound care and oxygen administration.
  • Notifies the provider on duty promptly of all unusual patient occurrences including medication events on an incident report.
  • Promptly notifies the Clinic Manager of patient or employee safety concerns.
  • Follows guidelines and requirements of laboratory and clinical accreditation policies.
  • Must be proficient in EMR/EHR
  • Performs other related duties as assigned or described by Company policy.

As a Medical Assistant, you may also be asked to support Front Office Reception. When working in the front office you will perform such duties as: keeping patients and families informed of wait times, monitor the flow of patients, process patients for discharge including preparing charges, collecting payment, obtaining all necessary signatures and issuing receipts.
How you will make an impact
The Medical Assistant supports the organization with customer service and treating all of our patients with respect and dignity. They ensure the clinic and front reception area is running smoothly and patient flow at the optimum, as well as provide patient care services in the back office medical setting, which will meet the specific needs of the patient.
Essential Education, Experience and Skills:
ARIZONA
Education: Minimum of high school diploma or equivalent; AND
  1. Completed an APPROVED (accredited) Medical Assistant training program.

OR
  1. Completed an UNAPPROVED (non-accredited) Medical Assistant training program AND a National Certification through one of the following:
  • American Association of Medical Assistants (AAMA) - administers the Certified Medical Assistant (CMA) exam and certification; or
  • American Medical Technologists (AMT) -- provides the Registered Medical Assistant (RMA) exam and certification to individuals who have completed the AMT criteria; or
  • National Healthcareer Association (NHA)-administers the Certified Clinical Medical Assistant (CCMA) exam and certification

Benefits:
NextCare offers full time employees medical, health savings account, dental, vision, basic life, voluntary employee/spouse/child life, long term disability, short term disability, employee assistance program, critical illness, accident, legal, identity theft and paid time off benefits. Employees of all statuses are offered 401(k) Plan benefits. Employees in select positions are offered shift differential benefits. Benefits are offered per policy and plan rules.

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