Practice Manager - Consult Psych and Physiatry
Work Schedule/Days:
Day / Monday - Friday
Employment Type:
Full-Time
Location:
Support I
Requisition #:
76827
JOB SUMMARY
A Practice Manager at Children s Healthcare of Atlanta is a key operational and analytical position that interfaces with both the outpatient and inpatient teams. This position works closely with other operational leaders in the practice on various strategic initiatives. In addition, the Practice Manager oversees the day-to-day operations, ensuring a high-quality patient/family experience and achieving our mission to make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
- Partners with clinical operations leaders to direct day-to-day practice operations, including staffing, resources, access, patient throughput, reporting, and operational issues.
- Assesses, identifies, and implements opportunities for additional gains in access, quality, revenue, and expense control.
- Provides onboarding and continued support to providers, e.g., schedules, expense reimbursement, clinic initiatives, and staff concerns.
- Forecasts and develops operational and capital budgets, providing monthly and ad hoc statistical data interpretation and variance reporting with timely immediate corrective action plans.
- Manages practice-based revenue cycle charge capture and reconciliation, collections, internal controls, coding, and denial monitoring.
- Ensures back end processes and/or supports seamless transactions and processes that impact patient throughput and financial viability in a practice.
- Ensures structure addresses changes in technology, operational processes, and practice needs.
- Builds relationships with key stakeholders, communicating progress towards key performance indicators.
- Partners with the corresponding entity for non-employed leased physicians and clinical staff needs and manages invoices and timely reimbursement.
- Identifies and resolves important ethical, strategic, and operating problems that require innovative solutions based on extensive knowledge of the healthcare industry.
- Oversees and directs administrative activities, including current operational policies and procedures and internal/external reports and correspondence.
- Maintains open lines of communication and positive working relationships with staff, physicians, and key system partners.
- Evaluates and makes recommendations for business development and expansion opportunities.
- Oversees implementation of all expansion projects.
- Maintains professional affiliations and enhances professional growth and development to remain current in changing healthcare trends as relates to management of clinic operations.
- Understands and applies management information, concepts, and principles to practice operations, including risk management, compliance, information management, planning, marketing, governance, organizational dynamics, human resources, and financial management.
- Responsible for all aspects of managing and leading a team including:
interviewing, hiring, training, developing, directing work and processes, managing performance, recognizing, and rewarding employees. - Mentor team members to encourage personal and professional growth.
- Encourage ongoing skill development by providing opportunities for continued education.
EDUCATION
- Bachelor's in Business Administration, Health Administration, or related field
EXPERIENCE
- 5 years of experience in operations with strong financial, human resources, and systems background
- Experience in a physician practice setting
- Demonstrated experience in various systems/software/technology components, e.g., Microsoft, Epic
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Master's in Business Administration, Health Administration, or related field
KNOWLEDGE SKILLS & ABILITIES
- Ability to operate independently
- Able to plan and manage time effectively and execute projects to completion with minimal oversight
- Demonstrated strategic thinking and problem-solving ability
- Strong communication skills and ability to build productive relationships across various levels of the organization
- Personal organization and time management
- Human relations and teamwork
- Personal adaptability and motivation
- Listening
- Strong communication skills in order to effectively deal with conflicting views or issues and mediate fair solutions, as well as possessing excellent writing skills
- Analytical skills to resolve highly complex problems requiring the application of scientific or technical principles, theories, and concepts and in-depth, cross-functional, experienced-based knowledge
- Ability to identify and resolve important ethical, strategic, and operating problems that require innovative solutions based on extensive knowledge of the healthcare industry
- Ability to effectively manage employees within assigned practice
- Ability to persuade and negotiate with peer level managers on issues and programs that impact assigned practice
SYSTEM RESPONSIBILITIES
Safety:
Practices proper safety techniques in accordance with hospital and departmental policies and procedures. Responsible for the reporting of employee/patient/visitor injuries or accidents, or other safety issues to the supervisor and in the occurrence notification system.
Compliance:
Monitors and ensures compliance with all regulatory requirements, organizational standards, and policies and procedures related to area of responsibility. Identifies potential risk areas within area of responsibility and supports problem resolution process. Maintains records of compliance activities and reports compliance activities to the Compliance Office.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all job duties performed by the personnel so classified.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
Ability to lift up to 15 lbs independently not to exceed 50 lbs without assistanceBending/Stooping - Frequently (activity or condition exists from 1/3 to 2/3 of time)Climbing - Occasionally (activity or condition exists up to 1/3 of time)Hearing/Speaking - Effective communication with employees, supervisors/managers and staff. Effective communications with patients and visitors, as required.Lifting - Frequently (activity or condition exists from 1/3 to 2/3 of time)Pushing/Pulling - Occasionally (activity or condition exists up to 1/3 of time)Sitting - Frequently (activity or condition exists from 1/3 to 2/3 of time)Standing - Frequently (activity or condition exists from 1/3 to 2/3 of time)Walking - Frequently (activity or condition exists from 1/3 to 2/3 of time)WORKING CONDITIONS
Some potential for exposure to blood and body fluids
About Us:
Children s Healthcare of Atlanta has been 100 percent committed to kids for more than 100 years. A not-for-profit organization, Children s is dedicated to making kids better today and healthier tomorrow.
With 3 hospitals, 20 neighborhood locations and a total of 673 beds, Children s is the largest healthcare provider for children in Georgia and one of the largest pediatric clinical care providers in the country. Children s offers access to more than 60 pediatric specialties and programs and is ranked among the top children s hospitals in the country by U.S. News & World Report.
Children s has been recognized as a Fortune 100 Best Place to Work, a Best Place for Working Mothers, and as a top employer for diversity and millennials. We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefit package that supports our mission, vision and values. We are proud to offer an array of programs and services to our employees that have distinguished us as a best place to work in the country. Connect to our mission of making kids better today and healthier tomorrow.
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Address:
1575 Northeast Expressway, Bldg 1, Atlanta, GA 30329
Function:
Practice Management - Practice Management
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