Practice Manager

Overview

About Sound:
Headquartered in Tacoma, WA, Sound Physicians is a physician-founded and led, national, multi-specialty medical group made up of more than 1,000 business colleagues and 4,000 physicians, APPs, CRNAs, and nurses practicing in 400-plus hospitals across 45 states. Founded in 2001, and with specialties in emergency and hospital medicine, critical care, anesthesia, and telemedicine, Sound has a reputation for innovating and leading through an ever-changing healthcare landscape — with patients at the center of the universe.

Sound Physicians offers a competitive benefits package inclusive of the items below, and more:

• Medical insurance, Dental insurance, and Vision insurance
• Health care and dependent care flexible spending account
• 401(k) retirement savings plan with a company match
• Paid time off (PTO) begins accruing immediately upon start date at a rate of 15 days per year, in accordance with Sound's PTO policy
• Ten company-paid holidays per year

The Practice Manager works with the Sound Physician’s team onsite at the hospital partner daily. This team consists of a Practice Medical Director, Clinicians, and a Clinical Performance Nurse. The Practice Manager also works closely, daily, with key stakeholders at the hospital partner, such as hospital leadership, case management, and others.

The Practice Manager is responsible for, but not limited to, the on-site operational management and support of Sound Physicians practice. The Practice Manager will be a main point of contact with the hospital, working with hospital leadership and support staff to manage practice operations. The Practice Manager will have a visible presence at the hospital, providing daily support to the practice clinical team and removing operational barriers.

This role will build and maintaining professional relationships with the entire practice team, hospital C-suite executives, case management, community providers and specialty physicians.

This role works on-site at our practice, within the hospital. There are no travel requirements for this role.

• Acting as the front-line liaison for the provider team with hospital C-Suite, nursing leadership, and Sound operational team
• Providing executive support to the practice medical director and practice team to meet contract expectations
• Providing office management functions to include, but not limited to, all aspects of meeting management, office systems, supplies, practice events
• Collaborating with Medical Director and Practice Management Team in developing and maintaining site practice policies and procedures
• As applicable to the practice line, facilitating all aspects of the daily patient census/reconciliation and daily multi-disciplinary rounds
• Administratively enabling patient care through facilitating home health order workflows, responding to medical records requests, coordinating patient PCP follow up appointments and completion of death certificates
• Ensuring all aspects of recruiting are executed, including the coordination of onsite interviews with hospital leadership and promoting a positive candidate experience (interviewing and site visits)
• Ensuring all aspects of on-boarding and orientation are completed for new clinicians as well as locums & ambassadors
• Developing and maintaining practice orientation checklists and policies
• Ensuring all licensed providers complete their recredentialing timely and appropriately for the licensing, certificates, and credentials required by Sound and hospital Medical Staff Office. Ensuring compliance with reappointments and monitoring state licenses expirables
• Ensuring clinicians obtain hospital privileging and payer enrollment is complete prior to patient care
• Managing relationship with hospital Medical Staff Office, troubleshooting barriers to on-time starts
• Ensuring billing and documentation compliance for the practice
• Ensuring clinicians participate in mandatory compliance training and remediation, if required, and that clinicians timely query responses and participation in compliance activities
• Participating in all medical group training offered by Sound…