TITLE:                                Regional Practice Administrator     DEPARTMENT:                                                  Operations   REPORTS TO:                           Director of Practice Management   POSITION DESCRIPTION: Somnia is actively seeking an experienced Regional Practice Administrator with five plus years of experience in either a hospital or large facility setting to work with St. John’s Regional Medical Center in Oxnard, CA and St. John’s Hospital Camarillo in Camarillo, CA. This role is a member of our leadership team and works directly with the Director of Operations. The Regional Practice Administrator will partner with Somnia’s executive management team as well as local hospital leadership. Strong interpersonal, organizational and time management skills are a must. This role will maintain its “home based” facility position while assisting the Director of Practice Management in the management of on-site Practice Administrators, remote support staff, and Manager(s) of Operations in the East Division. In addition, the position will provide project management support for new accounts and ensure proper administrative office set up prior to go-live. REGIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES / TASKS: - Works with Director of Practice Management and corporate leadership team to manage hospital accounts and ensure hospital C-Suite relationships are maintained. Assists with assigned projects needing oversight and coordination of delegation of duties and tasks, reminding participants of deliverables and deadlines, assisting with site visit quarterly report creation, organizing of and preparation for meetings, preparation of agendas and recording of minutes. - Notifies the account VP when they become aware of any issues impacting compliance, operations, and/or billing to include the inability of the practice to meet the contractual service and staffing requirements and delays or issues with billing and the revenue cycle impacting financials. - Ensures responsible facilities P4P is conducted on a quarterly bases and reports/ invoices/ payments occur in a timely manner. - Assists Director of Practice Management in the supervision of Hospital Administrative Staff in dedicated Division.   - Staff Management Oversight - Assists with workflow analysis and ensures all staff have tools needed to execute job expectations - Provides mentorship and guidance for staff - Ensures all staff are adequately educated and IT/equipment/remote accesses are obtained to meet expectations - Assists with recruitment, hiring, termination and remediation of staff in collaboration with Director of Practice Management and corporate HR - Assists with maintenance of pertinent training materials and oversees development of standardized processes and protocols across hospital network. - Works with staff members to execute all projects and quarterly reporting Project Management - Collaborates with Director of Practice Management on all new site implementations - Hospital relationship management with key stakeholders prior to start - Direct administrative resources to assist with project management and new site support - Collaborates/coordinates with Recruitment Department to ensure and conduct new Administrator and on-site support staff hiring, on-boarding, and training - Ensures development of new-hire orientation programs for all on-site clinical and non-clinical staff. - Ensure proper office set up including - IT resources and access - Staff management (Schedule, payroll, credentialing, onboarding, payer enrollment) - Physical plant (office space; call rooms; dept space, etc.) - Remote demographic billing access - Quality Program implementation   HOME BASE RESPONSIBILITIES / TASKS: DEPARTMENT STANDARD: PERFORM DEPARTMENT DUTIES IN A TIMELY AND EFFICIENT MANNER - RCM - Follow standard chart batching and scanning process according to Somnia’s billing partner’s policies and procedures - Work with hospital, Somnia and billing company to scan directly to pertinent imaging system - Submit 100% of charts within 3 business days - Complete or appropriately train support staff to thoroughly scrub charts for all the pertinent pieces of information including but not limited to: - DOS - Provider(s) names / signatures - Start / End times - Accurate and complete procedure / specificity - Diagnosis / specificity / ICD-10 compliant - SCIP measures (temp, beta blocker, sterile technique, etc. even if just for internal audit) - Documentation of who completed any ancillary services (i.e. blocks, lines, etc.) - Service Location (Hospital, ASC) - Sub-Location (i.e. OR1, OB, Endo, etc.) - Ensure VP of Patient Revenue has complete lists of service locations and sub locations - Lead discussions to establish interfaces between the hospital and billing partner to include: - Clinical documentation – only applicable to electronic anesthesia documentation sites - Billing interface - Demographic interface – should be available at all locations - Maintain 100% accurate case log - Information entered in the Admin Database within 3 business days of DOS and updated daily - Reconciliation within 1 week of email notice when discrepancies with billing case log when identified - Assist to ensure enrollment of new clinicians with payers prior to start date including but not limited to: - Follow up to ensure paperwork is sent to new clinician - Fully completed paperwork is returned and received - Send out START DATE NOTIFICATION email no later than 45 days prior to start. If a quicker start is needed, please notify Payer Enrollment and Clinician affairs as soon as possible - Send updated notification if start date changes - NOT SCHEDULE NEW CLINICIAN UNTIL PAYER ENROLLMENT DOCUMENTS ARE RECEIVED BY PAYERS (point of contact to check status – Joe Andrews) - Review billing IR log daily. Keep IR list to less than 7% of monthly case volume. - Address pending items within 48 business hours. - Insurance Conversions - Work with billing partner and VP of Patient Revenue to determine a site-specific process for following up on self-pay accounts. - Billing coding /compliance - Establish and maintain quarterly audit review meeting with billing partner and VP of Patient Revenue and Corporate Compliance Office   - Operations - Complete HIPAA Compliance Officer training - Implement new role after education received from Corporate Compliance Officer - Distribute annual and/or updated compliance and HIPAA materials to providers - Obtain and track acknowledgement forms - Send completed forms to point of contact at Somnia (Stephanie R/Inna B) - 100% adherence to the compliance program is expected. Rates monitored and calculated by compliance and will be shared with sites monthly. - Maintain up to date, complete and accurate monthly reporting - Hospital Account Review Report - Maintain all required information on the Intranet - FTE model – weekly - Clinician Contact list – reviewed monthly for accuracy - Upload presentations, education pieces, staff meeting minutes - Other materials as they are developed - Maintain all work on network drive - Migrate any locally saved work to intranet or network folder - Sign in to SIMS daily - Ensure education, utilization and audit of Somnia standard forms (work with EMR development where applicable) - If standard forms cannot be implemented or incorporated into EMR system responsible for alerting VP of Operations and VP of Patient Revenue - Will follow formal process to review hospital mandated forms including - Review of forms by Somnia leadership / Billing Partner - Feedback on potential deficiencies / compliance risks - Formal letter to hospital leadership and forms committee regarding findings - Clinician Support Tasks - Implement TLO for time keeping system - Submit payroll data on Friday of payroll week ensuring 100% accuracy - Capture and report actual hrs worked - Include locum hours when reporting total work hours for account review - Fully integrate QGenda scheduling system - Ensure all clinicians utilize it to full functionality - Ensure QGenda data is updated if changes are made after publishing schedule (ie: swapping shifts, vacation time, unpaid days off, sick calls, etc) - Create and follow standard process for when a clinician leaves your group - Collect keys, badges, etc. - Send e-mail to the last day notification group indicating the last day the clinician provided services. - Follow MSO guidelines for termination of privileges. - Credentialing and Enrollment Support - Be point person for collecting and distributing provider information for initial and re-credentialing process - Review lists of expiring or expired credentialing items, obtain outstanding information and send to Somnia credentialing and hospital medical staff office (when appropriate) - Support Joint Commission process and standards for all PD staff - On Boarding – lead on boarding process for assigned clinicians - Utilize, reference and refer people to on boarding spreadsheet for accurate and up to date clinician information - Send START DATE NOTIFICATION email as described above - Recruitment - Actively participate in all facility related recruitment calls including weekly recruitment call - Ensure completion of CEs within 72 business hours - Help with local recruitment efforts and follow up with local candidates when/if necessary - Engage with facility marketing and recruitment team to expand recruitment efforts locally - Somnia University - Complete modules as assigned - Participate in the development of content when requested - Monitor and follow up with clinicians to ensure they complete their assigned training - Policies & Procedures - Create non-clinical policies where required/requested - Ensure annual review and update of said policies and procedures   - Quality - Hospital QA Department relationship: Provide support to ensure a positive and supportive working relationship with the hospital quality department to include periodic visits and emails to ensure that we are meeting the goals and expectations of the hospital. - Communicate any issues to Somnia’s Quality Department - Clinical Audits: Facilitate and support improvements in conducting periodic clinical practice audits and maintaining accurate records/reporting. - Clinically focused audits (6 per year) - Store audit results on server or intranet (if no PHI) - Facilitate evaluation and use of audit methods; ie: paper, smartphone, etc. - Ensure completion of at least 1 cost savings project annually - Formally Document on-going PI projects (not just on HAR spreadsheet) - Ensure TIMELY completion of F/OPPEs - Load on shared drive folder and provide copy to hospital MSO. - Review hospital SCIP data with chief and staff, if applicable - Report HOSPITAL calculated results monthly on HAR - Enter all results in numerator/denominator fashion so sample size is easily identifiable. - If hospital is not tracking and reporting SCIP data complete annual audit of SCIP measures and include in HAR - Ensure OB epidural tracking times are reported and either captured locally or sent to billing partner - Patient Satisfaction: Facilitate and support improvements, especially with OB patient satisfaction, ie: patient education, tablet e-survey roll-out, etc. - Ensure competency with accessing and using the MTC web portal to access data, update practice info, produce reports, etc. - Support roll out and utilization of OB tablet surveys - Ensure safe storage and maintenance of tablet - Conduct annual surgeon satisfaction survey to obtain feedback from > 30% of surgeons (or more frequently if required by contract) - Support annual nursing satisfaction survey, if applicable - Develop, implement and audit action items based on patient, surgeon and nursing satisfaction survey results - Ensure there is an action plan to improve scores and report on this monthly on HAR spreadsheet - Respond timely to requests for information / data collection for creation of quarterly, annual, and ad-hoc client reports - Implement, maintain and make available an up to date policy and procedure manual with: - At least annual review an sign off by chief - Sign off sheet for all credentialed anesthesia clinicians for your facility acknowledging review and understanding of contents - Outcomes Forms – ensure an Outcomes Form is completed in full for each case. - Incident Reporting:  Facilitate and support improvements in reporting rates - Ensure an electronic incident report is completed for each adverse event at the end of the Outcomes Form for that case. - Help identify reporting trends and address suspected under reporting - Facilitate timely chief reviews and processing within guidelines - QM database: Maintain complete, accurate, and timely database entries - Frequent database maintenance - Competent at pulling data and reports as needed for practice and Somnia - Be able to discuss trends in the types of incidents reported. - Facilitate entry of timely chief reviews in the database - Peri-op/OR data:  If the site doesn’t already have readily available and accurate Periop/OR data on the traditional KPI metrics, facilitate and support a process to either implement a new electronic tracking process or one by hardcopy form - ACER: - Support and facilitate compliance with the use of the ACER program (minimum monthly staff access and review) to include electronic and posted reminders for the staff and discussion at staff meetings. - Support and facilitate the use of the data for F/OPPEs and Chief reviews. - Staff Awareness/Education: Support and facilitate the regular presentation and discussion of compliance and quality related data and issues during staff meetings, etc. - Post compliance/quality related data and materials at appropriate locations to for staff reminders and awareness of goals and performance.  

    We enjoy what we do every day because we’re part of a team that collaborates and innovates to deliver the best clinical outcomes and patient experiences at hospitals, surgery centers, and medical offices. We share ideas to make healthcare better.     The Medical Office Coordinator is instrumental in the daily administrative processes for the anesthesia department at Lehigh Valley Carbon Hospital.  This is a part time flexible role that will average approximately 32 hours weekly.          - Overview:The Medical Office Coordinator will be responsible for assisting the Practice Administrator with all daily practice operations at the Lehigh Valley Carbon Hospital.   - Assist Practice Administrator with HR Related tasks - Weekend and Holiday call schedule sent to hospital distribution list - Maintenanceof staff contact list and send to hospital distribution list as changes occur - Assist with local credentialing Works with the Practitioners, Somnia and the Lehigh Valley Carbon Medical Staff Office to ensure all Practitioner’s credentials are up to date. - Annual HIPAA compliance forms management. - Quality Management - Assist with the collection of Risk Reports. OPPE/FPPE files created on the Anesthesia shared drive; final reports sent to Somnia as scheduled.  - Management of the collection and distribution of dosimetry badges and prepares quarterly reports and submits to the Hospital. - Administrative support to Medical Director and Practice Administrator - Appointment scheduling - Typeagendas and meeting minutes - Attend hospital meetings as department representative as needed - Billing cycle support - Assist the Practice Administrator to ensure the review of all charts and the collections of operative notes, anesthesia records, Outcomes Forms, and Incident Forms. - Reviews all Outcomes Forms to ensure completeness and accuracy daily. - Review and assist as need that the daily billing spreadsheets are completed and submitted to the billing company on a daily basis. - Identifies problem areas and works with Practice Administrator to define a plan for solutions, implements the workflow and monitors the progress. - Assist with the review of IRs on a daily basis - Assist and Review data entry on daily and quarterly reports - Assist with Quarterly and Monthly Case reconciliations   *Other duties as assigned  

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ENJOY WHAT YOU DO We enjoy what we do every day because we’re part of a team that collaborates and innovates to deliver the best clinical outcomes and patient experiences at hospitals, surgery centers, and medical offices. We share ideas to make healthcare better.   Opportunity for an attorney to join a collegial in-house legal department of an expanding national healthcare company as an Attorney. The Attorney will be a key member of our Legal Department, reporting to our VP of Legal, Compliance and Regulatory Affairs. The attorney in this role will have the opportunity to work closely with various departments to draft contracts, address legal issues, ensure operational compliance, and provide ad-hoc legal support. We will provide you with autonomy and independence in your day-to-day work and give you the opportunity to self-start. You will be encouraged and empowered to take initiative and have hands-on ownership of projects. Initially, a primary focus will be the drafting of contracts and amendments with an emphasis on employment agreements; however, your responsibilities within this role has the opportunity to grow in-line with your own professional development.