Manager

at  RWJBarnabas Health

JOB OVERVIEW:

The Practice Manager will oversee the day to day management of assigned practice locations, oversee office activities and staff to ensure that optimal patient care is given in accordance with Barnabas Health Medical Group policies and procedures in a courteous, timely and efficient manner. He/she will be responsible for reporting identified safety issues such as hazardous environments and medical errors.

SCHEDULING REQUIREMENTS

• Shift: Day
• Status: Full-Time (40.00 hrs.)
• Time: 8:00a.m. 4:30p.m. (Shift may vary)
• Schedule: Monday Friday

• Assists in all front desk duties, answers telephones and schedules appointments
• Obtains and enters patient and insurance information; maintains charts
• Verifies insurance eligibility; post and collect charges and payments and print receipts
• Follows through on all customer requests and inquiries in a timely fashion
• Maintains positive relationships with all customers, employees, physicians, patients, visitors, and guests
• Assures physicians licensure is current: license, CDS, DES, Malpractice Insurance, ACLS, and BLS
• Maintains practice work queues or supervises designated persons
• Effectively allocates and schedules resources
• Able to project and appropriately staff the practices to effectively function to demand
• Determines priorities and organizes work and time to meet them
• Utilizes resources, both labor and non-labor to maximize efficiency and quality
• Follows sound employee retention techniques; effective selection and interviewing recognition, fair and timely discipline, and ongoing performance feedback
• Interacts constructively, tactfully and diplomatically with others and resolves conflicts effectively
• Demonstrates cultural competency and ability to maintain a diverse workforce
• Adheres to budgetary guidelines and proactively manages budget variances and causes
• Review daily flow sheets, make deposits, and check posting, billing and coding
• Update staff on coding changes and inputs changes in computer
• Coordinates patient care with affiliating health members
• Gathers information for special testing
• Coordination of physician schedules and entering PTO, CME, Seminars, Meetings on bi-weekly payroll time sheets with back-up documentation as per compliance regulations
• Assures that office complies with all requirements of OSHA that apply to practice and that all employees are trained in proper procedures and are following the regulations
• Keeps physical properties of office in good state of repair, monitors the security policies of office, and reports status to Regional Operations Manager