PRACTICE ADMINISTRATOR DENTAL at The Institute for Family Health

Summary:

Provides leadership in the smooth operation of the dental practices to enhance the management of patient visits the fulfillment of the mission of the Institute.

Requirements:

• Ensure Accurate and timely submission of 3rd party claims
• Develop and implement tobacco cessation study and program
• Determines opportunities to improve efficiency and assure adequate patient access
• Performs special projects to evaluate methods and procedures for processing work or improving operating efficiency/effectiveness of the practice
• Oversees and resolves problems relating to practice systems including appointments, registration, physician referrals, medical records, staff/patient relations and billing.
• Coordinate and develop working relationship with outside vendors
• Monitors and improve patient satisfaction
• Compiles and reports monthly practice statistics
• Assures that all cash collections and/or petty cash funds are maintained securely and reconciled periodically
• Develops provider schedules and assures that they are entered correctly in the computer system
• Develop budgets and monitors ordering department wide to ensure financial plans not exceeded
• Oversees the maintenance of provider schedules, and appropriate staffing of practitioners and patient services staff. Reviews schedules pro-actively (at least once a week) to identify problems.
• Support clinical administrators in day to day operation of dental service
• Coordinates administrative performance improvement activities in practice
• Performs Patient Service Representative functions as required

About Us:

We build an entire organization around one objective, providing comprehensive care to medically underserved patients. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. If you envision an opportunity to directly serve people who need and appreciate all that you have to offer, we are the leading federally qualified community health care network consisting of 26 family medicine practices serving over 90,000 patients in New York city and the Mid-Hudson Valley.

Qualifications:

• High School Diploma, Bachelor’s Degree preferred
• Five (5) years of relevant experience, at least (3) of which were in a comparable health care setting
• Demonstrated organizational, communication, and scheduling skills
• Demonstrated supervisory and leadership skills

• Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action:

  The Institute for Family Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. This job summary is intended to be brief and may not list all the duties and functions required, however, it does highlight the essential requirements. Nothing outlined in this job summary is to be construed as an express or implied contract of employment.

  
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