Nurse Practitioner / Physician Assistant - Gastroenterology
About The Position
Provides primary health care to a specific patient population within the guidelines of written protocols, following established nursing standards, procedures, and practices. The position engages in diagnosing and treating disease, defects, or injuries and recommends or prescribes treatments to relieve or cure physical, mental, or functional ailments or defects. It completes charting, summaries, correspondence, and other paperwork needed to document care and billing. The role participates in employer-provided educational programs related to capitated medicine and its implications for practice patterns, and responds to requests for proposals for managed care contracts. It also contributes to quality assurance and utilization management programs, management information system selection, patient education services, and patient satisfaction surveys. The position assists with operational and capital budgets and participates in operational assessments to identify revenue enhancement, expense reduction, consolidation efficiencies, and billing opportunities. The role maintains courteous and cooperative working relationships with management, employees, physicians, patients, guarantors, and the public, and participates in activities that further the employer’s public image. This is a non-management role reporting to a supervisor, manager, director, or executive.
Requirements
- Master’s Degree in Nursing with a Nurse Practitioner degree emphasis, or equivalent program certificate.
- Official recognition as a Nurse Practitioner in the state where the team member works.
- Prescriptive Authority for the state where the team member works.
- Controlled Substance license for the state where the team member works.
- Federal DEA license.
Responsibilities
- Diagnose and treat disease, defects, or injuries, and recommend or prescribe treatments for physical, mental, or functional ailments or defects.
- Complete charting, summaries, correspondence, and other paperwork required to document care and billing.
- Participate in educational programs related to capitated medicine and its implications for practice patterns.
- Participate in responding to requests for proposals for managed care contracts.
- Participate in establishing quality assurance and utilization management programs.
- Participate in selecting management information systems.
- Participate in developing patient education services and patient satisfaction surveys.
- Assist in developing operational and capital budgets.
- Participate in operational assessments to identify revenue enhancement, expense reductions, consolidation efficiencies, and billing opportunities.
- Maintain courteous and cooperative working relationships with management, employees, physicians, patients, guarantors, and the general public.
- Participate in activities that further the employer’s public image.
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Job Type
Full-time
