Orthopedic Practice Manager job description.

Orthopedic Practice Manager · [Practice Name] · [Location] · [Full-time]

About the practice: [2 sentences: specialty focus, locations, providers, what makes the team worth joining.]

The role: Runs the business of the practice: operations, staffing, revenue cycle oversight, compliance, and the metrics the physicians see monthly.

Responsibilities:

• Own daily operations across front office, clinical support, and scheduling teams
• Recruit, train, and manage the operations staff; run performance reviews and coverage planning
• Oversee the revenue cycle with the billing team: denials trends, AR aging, point-of-service collections
• Manage payer relationships, credentialing timelines, and fee schedule reviews
• Track and report the operating metrics: answer rates, no-show rates, referral conversion, visit volume, per-provider production
• Own compliance operations: HIPAA program, OSHA, policy manual, incident response
• Evaluate and implement operational technology, from the phone system to patient-facing automation
• Partner with physician leadership on budgets, staffing plans, and growth initiatives

Required:

• 3+ years managing medical practice operations, surgical specialty preferred
• Demonstrated revenue-cycle literacy: you can read a denials report and act on it
• Comfort managing through metrics and holding service-level standards

Preferred:

• Orthopedic, spine, or surgical group experience
• CMPE/FACMPE or equivalent practice-management credential
• Multi-site management experience

Compensation: [Set from local data; commonly listed ranges run $70K to $110K on national job boards, higher for multi-site groups and MBAs/CMPEs.] Benefits: [health, PTO, retirement, CME as applicable]

• What operating metrics would you put on this practice's monthly dashboard, and what target would you set for each?
• Your answer rate is 70% and the front desk says they are maxed. What do you do, in order?
• Walk me through a denials trend you found and fixed.
• How do you decide between adding an FTE and changing a process?
• A surgeon and a staff member have an ongoing conflict. How do you handle it?