Nurse Practitioner / Physician Assistant - Pulmonology - Columbia

Prisma Health • Columbia, SC

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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 role engages in diagnosis and treatment of disease, defects, or injuries and recommends or prescribes treatments to relieve or cure physical, mental, or functional ailments or defects.

The position completes charting, summaries, correspondence, and other paperwork required to document care and support billing. It also 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.

The role participates in establishing quality assurance and utilization management programs, selecting management information systems, and developing patient education services and patient satisfaction surveys. It assists with operational and capital budget development and participates in operational assessments to identify revenue enhancement, expense reduction, consolidation efficiencies, and billing opportunities. The employee is expected to maintain courteous and cooperative working relationships with management, employees, physicians, patients, guarantors, and the public, and to participate in activities that further the employer’s public image. 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

• Provide primary health care to a specific patient population within written protocols and established nursing standards, procedures, and practices.
• Engage in diagnosis and treatment of disease, defects, or injuries and recommend or prescribe treatments.
• Complete charting, summaries, correspondence, and other paperwork required to document care and billing.
• Participate in employer-provided 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time