About the Role
Manhattan Gastroenterology is seeking an experienced and highly organized Care Coordination Manager to oversee the practice’s Care Coordination/AfterCare operations and ensure timely, accurate, and efficient follow-up of patient care needs. This position plays a critical role in ensuring that patients receive appropriate follow-up and that outstanding clinical orders are completed and properly documented.
Responsibilities
- Supervise, support, and provide direction to Care Coordination/AfterCare Coordinators.
- Assign daily and weekly tasks based on department priorities, patient needs, staffing, and workload.
- Monitor team productivity, quality, accuracy, and completion of assigned work.
- Establish clear expectations, workflows, and deadlines for the Care Coordination team.
- Monitor workload and redistribute assignments as needed to maintain department efficiency.
- Conduct regular audits of completed work to ensure accuracy, proper documentation, and adherence to established workflows.
- Assist with onboarding, training, and development of new Care Coordination employees.
- Provide ongoing coaching and feedback to staff and assist with performance evaluations.
- Identify performance concerns and work with leadership to develop appropriate corrective action or improvement plans when necessary.
- Serve as a resource and escalation point for complex patient coordination issues.
- Promote teamwork, accountability, and strong communication within the department.
- Oversee the timely management and completion of outstanding provider orders and patient follow-up needs.
- Monitor and manage outstanding laboratory orders, imaging orders, procedures, pathology results, referrals, and other clinical follow-up items.
- Review aging reports and identify orders or patient needs that have remained outstanding beyond established timeframes.
- Ensure appropriate follow-up is completed on pending laboratory and diagnostic results.
- Ensure pathology results are properly reconciled, documented, and routed to the appropriate provider or clinical team.
- Monitor procedure orders and ensure patients are appropriately contacted and scheduled.
- Monitor imaging orders and referrals to ensure patients receive appropriate follow-up.
- Oversee patient outreach related to pending care, recommended follow-up, referrals, procedures, and diagnostic testing.
- Ensure patient communications and follow-up attempts are accurately documented in the EMR.
- Identify patients who may be at risk of falling through the cracks and ensure appropriate follow-up is completed.
- Escalate clinical concerns, urgent results, or patient issues to the appropriate physician, nurse, or clinical leadership.
- Work to reduce outstanding orders and maintain an efficient AfterCare workflow.
- Develop, implement, and maintain standardized Care Coordination workflows and procedures.
- Monitor departmental backlogs and develop action plans to address outstanding work.
- Review productivity and performance metrics to identify trends, bottlenecks, and opportunities for improvement.
- Develop and monitor departmental KPIs related to patient outreach, outstanding orders, referrals, scheduling, and task completion.
- Identify opportunities to improve patient flow, communication, and operational efficiency.
- Collaborate with leadership to improve processes and eliminate unnecessary delays.
- Coordinate with scheduling, front desk, clinical, billing, and other departments to ensure seamless patient care.
- Assist with resolving system, workflow, and communication issues affecting Care Coordination.
- Participate in quality improvement and process improvement initiatives.
- Maintain compliance with practice policies, HIPAA requirements, and applicable healthcare regulations.
- Serve as a primary point of contact between the Care Coordination team and providers.
- Communicate outstanding patient care needs and workflow concerns to physicians and clinical leadership.
- Coordinate with nursing, medical assistants, scheduling, front desk, billing, and other departments to resolve patient care issues.
- Ensure provider requests and tasks are communicated appropriately and completed within established timeframes.
- Escalate unresolved operational or patient concerns to the appropriate member of leadership.
- Assist in developing and implementing department-wide communication standards.
Requirements
- Minimum of 3 years of experience in an outpatient healthcare or medical practice setting.
- Minimum of 2 years of leadership or supervisory experience.
- Experience managing or coordinating a healthcare team.
- Strong knowledge of outpatient patient care coordination and medical office operations.
- Strong understanding of clinical order follow-up and patient communication.
- Excellent organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to accuracy.
- Ability to analyze productivity, backlog, and operational data to identify areas for improvement.
- Ability to communicate effectively with physicians, clinical staff, administrative leadership, and patients.
- Ability to handle confidential patient information in accordance with HIPAA and practice policies.
Skills
- Care Coordination
- Referral management
- Prior authorizations
- Insurance verification
- Laboratory and pathology workflows
- Imaging coordination
- Procedure scheduling
- Population Health
- Quality improvement
- Performance monitoring
- Healthcare workflow optimization
- eClinicalWorks (eCW)
Location
- Manhattan
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 3 years in outpatient healthcare
- 2 years leadership/supervisory experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
Benefits
- Medical Insurance
- Dental & Vision Insurance
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Vacation Time
- 401(k) Plan
- Professional and supportive work environment
About the Company
- Manhattan Gastroenterology is a medical practice.
Equal Opportunity
- Manhattan Gastroenterology is an equal opportunity employer.
