Patient Accounts Supervisor Healthcare

Description

Has oversight for all functions of the inpatient and/or outpatient accounting office and a staff of credit, collection, insurance, and billing clerks. Coordinates activities and schedules work assignments to meet rigid billing deadlines. Provides guidance and instruction in the interpretation of office policies, procedures, and practices. Initiates and implements improvements to billing systems, including pursuing and developing improved collection techniques within the confines of federal and state collection laws and third-party payer requirements with respect to health coverage and reimbursement. Employees in this classification supervise three or more full-time equivalent employees every week. Direction is over a permanent status-continuing function, not a collection of employees assigned to complete a project. Management duties include interviewing, selecting and training of employees; setting and adjusting their rates of pay and hours of work; planning and directing their work; appraising their productivity and efficiency for the purpose of recommending promotions or other changes in their status; handling their complaints and grievances and disciplining them when necessary. Management responsibilities include the authority to hire, fire, or promote assigned employees or make recommendations that are given particular weight. Employees may spend time performing many of the same duties as subordinate employees. Under FLSA, this is the exempt job classification for this title. Incumbents in this position must meet the full criteria for exempt status: salary level, salary basis, and duties tests.