Childrens Healthcare of Atlanta

Practice Manager, Primary Care - Douglasville

Healthcare
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in operational roles, preferably in a healthcare setting
  • Strong background in financial management and human resources
  • Proficiency in operational software such as Microsoft and Epic
  • Bachelor's degree in Business or Health Administration
  • Master’s degree preferred but not required

Responsibilities

  • Oversee daily operations, ensuring high-quality patient experience
  • Identify and implement strategies for revenue growth and operational efficiency
  • Support onboarding and ongoing provider development
  • Manage budgeting and financial forecasting, addressing variances promptly
  • Oversee revenue cycle, ensuring accurate charge capture and collections
  • Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders, focusing on performance indicators
  • Lead administrative operations, supporting compliance and communication within teams

Benefits

  • Onsite work with potential for one remote day after six months
  • Opportunity for professional growth and continued education
  • Collaborative environment with strong focus on team development
  • Access to resources for managing clinical operations effectively
  • Strong emphasis on innovative solutions in a healthcare context
Full Job Description

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Work Shift

Day

Work Day(s)

Monday-Friday

Shift Start Time

Variable

Shift End Time

Variable

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Job Description

Oversees the day-to-day operations, ensuring a high-quality patient/family experience. Monitors and improves revenue generation and operational efficiency of the assigned practice(s). Oversees larger practices and multiple locations with high patient throughput, inpatient, and/or procedural services and an evolving strategic plan and/or growing scope of programs and/or services.

Workstyle

  • 5 day/wk onsite (after 6 months, may work 1 day remote)

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

Education

  • Bachelor's in Business Administration, Health Administration, or related field

Certification Summary

  • No professional certifications required

Knowledge, Skills, and 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

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.

Primary Location Address

6095 Professional Pkwy

Job Family

Practice Operations & Management

About Childrens Healthcare of Atlanta

Children's Healthcare of Atlanta (CHOA) is a pediatric healthcare system that provides a range of services to children and families in the Atlanta area. The system includes three hospitals, 27 neighborhood locations, and a network of more than 600 pediatric physicians. CHOA is committed to providing high-quality, family-centered care to its patients, and is recognized as one of the top pediatric hospitals in the country. The system's services include primary care, specialty care, emergency care, and more. CHOA is also involved in research and education, and is dedicated to improving the health and well-being of children everywhere.
Learn more about Childrens Healthcare of Atlanta
Size
13,000 employees
Industry
Founded
1997

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