Nurse Practitioner / Physician Assistant - Pulmonology - Columbia
Prisma Health•Richland, WA
•Onsite
About The Position
Provides primary health care to a specific patient population within written protocols, following established nursing standards, procedures, and practices. The role is based in Pulmonology in Columbia, South Carolina, and works the day shift. The position participates in clinical care and diagnosis, documentation and billing, and organizational activities related to managed care, quality assurance, utilization management, information systems, patient education, patient satisfaction, budgeting, and operational improvement. This is a non-management position that reports to a supervisor, manager, director, or executive.
Requirements
- Master's degree in Nursing with a Nurse Practitioner degree emphasis, or equivalent program certificate.
- South Carolina Official Recognition Nurse Practitioner (NLNP).
- Prescriptive Authority South Carolina Nursing License.
- South Carolina Controlled Substance license.
- Federal DEA license.
Responsibilities
- Diagnose and treat diseases, defects, or injuries, and recommend or prescribe treatments to relieve or cure physical, mental, or functional ailments or defects.
- Complete charting, summaries, correspondence, and other paperwork required to document care and support billing.
- Participate in employer-provided physician education programs about capitated medicine and its effects on 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 with developing operational and capital budgets.
- Participate in operational assessments to identify revenue enhancement, expense reduction, consolidation efficiencies, and billing opportunities.
- Maintain courteous and cooperative working relationships with management, employees, physicians, patients, guarantors, and the public.
- Participate in activities that further the public image of the employer.
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Job Type
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