Practice Manager (Dental Practice)

Patients meet you first at this dental practice in Gqeberha, so calm and clear matters. If you turn up on time and finish what you start, you'll fit in quickly.

The work is in Gqeberha, Eastern Cape, so you'll need a reliable way to get there every day. Shifts rotate, so you'll need to be flexible about days and nights.

• Code consultations and procedures with ICD-10 and CCSA or NHRPL tariffs
• Book appointments and manage the doctor's diary on the practice software
• Request pre-authorisation for scans, procedures and admissions
• Chase short payments with medical schemes and patients
• Keep patient records locked and share them only with written consent
• Check medical aid membership and benefits before each consultation
• Take payments, issue receipts and balance the cash-up at close

• You keep patient information private, every time
• Experience on a practice system such as GoodX, Elixir, Medinol or Healthbridge
• Sound knowledge of ICD-10 coding and medical aid tariff codes
• Friendly on the phone and firm about outstanding accounts

• Bookkeeping basics or Pastel knowledge for practice accounts
• Worked for a specialist discipline such as radiology, anaesthesia or orthopaedics

• Bonus linked to collections at billing bureaus
• Free medical consultations for staff at some practices
• Normal practice hours with most weekends off
• Parking on site

• Name the billing software you know in your CV headline; practices want someone who needs no system training.
• Specialist rooms care about the discipline, so say if you've coded for surgeons, anaesthetists or radiologists.