Practice Manager (Dental Practice) – Entry Level

At a specialist orthopaedic rooms in Hammarsdale, your job is clean files, correct codes and money that comes in on time. Expect to be trusted with real work from your first week.

This post is in Hammarsdale (KwaZulu-Natal). Please only apply if you can travel there daily.

• Answer the phones and send clinical questions to the right nurse or doctor
• Book appointments and manage the doctor's diary on the practice software
• Check medical aid membership and benefits before each consultation
• Keep patient records locked and share them only with written consent
• Chase short payments with medical schemes and patients
• Code consultations and procedures with ICD-10 and CCSA or NHRPL tariffs
• Submit claims electronically and work through the rejection report daily

• You keep patient information private, every time
• Confident with Excel and email
• Friendly on the phone and firm about outstanding accounts
• Sound knowledge of ICD-10 coding and medical aid tariff codes
• Experience on a practice system such as GoodX, Elixir, Medinol or Healthbridge
• At least 2 years in a medical practice, hospital or billing bureau

• Worked for a specialist discipline such as radiology, anaesthesia or orthopaedics
• Medical terminology or clinical coding certificate

• Bonus linked to collections at billing bureaus
• Free medical consultations for staff at some practices
• Parking on site

• Give numbers if you can, such as your rejection rate or how much you cut the 90-day debtors.
• Specialist rooms care about the discipline, so say if you've coded for surgeons, anaesthetists or radiologists.