About the Role
Responsible for overseeing daily performance of the Service Center (centralized appointment scheduling, registration specialists, and operators) department functions and personnel.
Responsibilities
- Supervises, directs and ensures accurate scheduling of physician schedules.
- Works closely with physicians and management team.
- Trains, monitors and evaluates staff.
- Supervises, directs and ensures accurate incoming call routing for the Operator team.
- Oversees the Registration team to ensure quality of all insurance verification and auditing processes align with department and practice goals.
- Ensures positive customer service atmosphere and patient interactions through ongoing training/development/monitoring of staff.
- Seeks physician/staff feedback to ensure interactions are appropriate.
- Maintain an appropriate staffing level to handle incoming call volume and reviews dashboard metrics daily to meet department’s goals.
- Oversees orientation/training including cross-training requirements to ensure staff availability/coverage requirements caused by vacations, sickness, peak loads.
- Assist with candidate selection and hiring process of new staff.
- Monitors/analyzes daily workload and productivity levels and reports to the Patient Services Director.
- Work closely with Patient Services Director to identify ways to improve patient access on an ongoing basis and to facilitate efficiencies in staff and patient workflows.
- Troubleshoot and research issues that arise to identify problems and develop recommendations for resolution.
- Assist in maintaining oversight of all software that pertains to department including troubleshooting issues, tracking challenges and enhancement requests, assisting with action items providing directives as needed to avoid delays.
- Oversees and maintains all physician and midlevel scheduling preferences by ensuring all information loaded in software is updated and functioning properly.
- Work closely with physicians and midlevels to review and capture information on a minimum biannual basis, if not requested sooner by providers.
- Work closely with Leads and Managers from other departments to ensure delivery of exceptional patient care and completion of company goals.
- Performs scheduling tasks as needed.
- Motivate staff for maximum work efficiency.
- Maintains strictest confidentiality.
Requirements
- Minimum of five years progressively responsible customer service positions.
- Two years supervisory experience; call center setting preferred.
- Previous medical experience preferred.
- Knowledge of customer service concepts and business methods.
- Knowledge of organization policies, procedures, systems and objectives.
- Knowledge of basic health insurance plans.
- Skill in appropriate collection/analysis/presentation of staffing, productivity, and cost data on a routine and special-project basis.
- Skill in exercising initiative, judgment, problem solving and decision-making.
- Ability to use interpersonal skills to establish/maintain relationships with patients and staff.
- Ability to analyze workload requirements and schedule receptionists appropriately.
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in writing and verbally.
- Must have adequate visual acuity to read, the ability to interpret and understand written material.
- Occasional stress in dealing with customer problems.
- Continuously handle multiple tasks simultaneously and work as a part of a team.
Skills
- Customer service
- Business methods
- Health insurance plans
- Staffing
- Productivity
- Cost data analysis
- Problem solving
- Decision-making
- Interpersonal skills
- Workload analysis
- Scheduling
- Written communication
- Verbal communication
Location
- Austin, TX 78759
Work Type
- Full Time
Experience Level
- Management
- Five years progressively responsible customer service positions
- Two years supervisory experience
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree preferable
Salary/Compensations
- $58,000.00 - $68,000.00
Benefits
- Medical Insurance with VIP Health Advocate Service
- Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Dental Coverage
- Vision Coverage
- 7-8 Paid Holidays each year
- 12 PTO Days to start, with increases based on tenure (up to 22 days)
- 401(k) with Safe Harbor contribution plus Profit Sharing (once eligible)
- Life Insurance
- Short & Long-Term Disability
- Additional Supplemental Plans
- Mileage Reimbursement + Travel Time – (for eligible positions)
- Colleague Recognition Program
- Well-being support: Employee Assistance Program
About the Company
- Since opening our doors in 1986, Texas Orthopedics has grown into one of Central Texas’s most trusted names in musculoskeletal care.
- For nearly four decades, we’ve been committed to delivering exceptional orthopedic, rheumatologic, and physical therapy services to our community.
- With multiple locations throughout the Austin area and a comprehensive team of highly skilled physicians, we continue to expand our reach and elevate patient experience.
- Texas Orthopedics is a proud division of OrthoLoneStar, the largest independent orthopedic practice in Texas.
- At Texas Orthopedics, we strive to create a workplace where excellence and support go hand in hand.
- We prioritize a culture that encourages collaboration, professional growth, work–life balance and a team-driven environment.
- Through ongoing communication, staff feedback initiatives, and continuous process improvements, we work together to ensure our clinics operate with the highest standards of efficiency, innovation, and comfort.
- This commitment helps us deliver an exceptional experience not only to our patients, but also to every member of our team.
