A career in health care management - day in the life of official practice
day like what you described below may not be anything, but the point of this post is to indicate that most managers put out fires throughout today and falsification of meetings, e-mail, and personnel issues and the doctor and have very little time for planning and thinking. Depending on how long you've been with your current group, how well trained your staff training, and the number of supervisors have worked with you, you may have a much easier today than described below, or one much harder!
7:00 to 8:00
employee calls you at home before 7 am to say it will not be in you can check the schedule to see how. Staff can be rearranged to cover all needs.
8:00 to 9:00
arrive, and two employees have been waiting and have things to discuss with you - one wants to reschedule her vacation for the third time, and the other wants to Information for FMLA (family Medical leave Act.) I tell you first will look at the schedule, and get back to her second delivery of a package of information about the FMLA for review.
You should consult your own schedule, and note today that the nurse is coming up soon, and you need to make plans to celebrate their day.
you check your e-mail, and see that the listserv your state has some interesting information that you transmit to the billing manager, asking her to look at this issue, and I tell you, if it applies to your practice.
9:00 to 11:00
You are dealing with a patient's complaint. You round to everyone in this practice, check to make sure everyone has what they need and check the end of their holiday weekend. On your way to your office, nurse The exam room is not cleaned to the fullest as it should be. You can make a mental note to talk to the cleaning company.
9:30 am your meeting is with a broker has some quotes to share with you in case you have a June 30 year-end benefits. Senior doctor of your request and that the group considers the benefits of cutting this year if the health insurance rates go up again.
You can listen to a number of voice mail messages that came at a time when they were gathered with a broker benefits. The first is your EMR project manager calls to say your direct operating history, you may need to change. Please contact him back. Last is a request to set a date to review the chart defended sometime during the next three weeks.
11:00 to 12:00
doctor lets you know that it's used the last of the platforms Rx - you can order some more as soon as possible?
and salaries week, you spend more than an hour the completion of the payroll and check with the four employees who lacks punch salary record. You send a file outside of salaries and transfer of funds in the payroll account, checking bank balance and noting that the electronic transfer, which came in because you checked it on Friday.
12:00 to 1:00
you meet with the doctor who has concerns about the timetable for compensation. Asking for a report showing his charges, receipts and RVUs work during the month over the past two years.
receive your mail, put the bills in a file to be paid and we note that you are an employee who was terminated her appealing the denial of unemployment and there will be a hearing next week.
printer call and put a rush order on platforms Rx.
1:00 to 2:00
can look at your calendar, remember accountant comes to visit her quarterly today did not have everything ready.
you realize lunch outside for the day, grab a soft drink from the restroom, grab a box of crackers from your drawer and review your e-mail. It was announced Craigslist writer medical records and to take a quick look at the responses I got, and see there are two that seem to have potential. Both candidates call and leave messages that you wish to talk to them about the job.
you can get the rest of the information together for the accountant and open space in the office where she works when you come.
2:00 to 3:00
accountant up and starts to work, and you know you will need to stay close to answer any questions you have.
to begin work on the reports that the doctor had asked.
call the project manager of the electromagnetic radiation, but to get his voice mail and leave a message. Defended the call and ask for a list of necessary plans to check the chart with a letter requested details on the type of audit.
to begin reviewing the report of the broker benefits to see where you might be able to change other benefits to afford to continue in the same health insurance plan.
3:00 to 4:00
and one of the candidates, the medical records of calls back and talk with them at length, and then invite her to meet with you in two days.
You should consult the holiday schedule personnel to find out whether you can change the schedule for the employee who changed her mind about her dates.
You tour to everyone in the exercise again, and check to see that everyone got lunch and that things are running smoothly.
when you get back from the bathroom to have five voicemail messages (!), And one of them project the Eastern Mediterranean Region, which connects to your manager again.
4:00 to 6:00
bills director up to the weekly meeting of the stand and its revisions to the dashboard numbers in the last week of charges, receipts, and write-offs and accounts sent to collections. It tells you that one of the posters choice I have noticed that he advocated is contrary to the laws of contract payments. Director wants to know what to do about it. I ask her to keep track of payments and re-determine exactly when payments out schedule began. Representative defended the call and asked for a meeting later this week.
receive a phone call from the second candidate's medical records, and after speaking with them on the phone, you need to decide not to invite her for an interview.
employee asks for FMLA depends to some extent make an appointment to talk to you tomorrow morning. It tells you that her mother was sick, and they will need to miss work to care for her intermittently.
access cleaning crew as you walk through several rooms exam with them, talk about the level of cleanliness that is required. You can make a mental note to touch base with the nurse that monitors rooms and see if there has been an improvement in a few days.
you check your e-mail, straighten your desktop, note-do list, you're starting today with something that has a write-off. Add two more things to the list, and turn off the lights, and left the office. There's always tomorrow.