Practice Manager, Anesthesiology in Somerville, New Jersey at RWJBarnabas Health

Job Title: Practice Manager, Anesthesiology

Location: RWJUH Somerset

Department Name: Anesthesiology Som

Req #: 0000244440

Status: Salaried

Shift: Day

Pay Range: $83,156.00 - $117,458.00 per year

Pay Transparency:

The above reflects the anticipated annual salary range for this position if hired to work in New Jersey.

The compensation offered to the candidate selected for the position will depend on several factors, including the candidate's educational background, skills and professional experience.

Job Overview:

The Anesthesia Practice Manager role represents an operational leadership position with direct responsibility for the clinical, financial, regulatory, and strategic performance of a hospital-based anesthesia practice. The position requires advanced business training (MBA-level), deep healthcare operations expertise, and specialized knowledge of anesthesiology workflows and physician compensation structures.

Scope of Responsibility

• Daily operations of a multi-provider anesthesia department
• Credentialing, privileging, and payer enrollment
• Complex physician and CRNA scheduling and staffing models
• Payroll administration and productivity-based compensation
• Quality metric collection, reporting, and performance improvement
• Business development, service line expansion, and hospital relationship management

Qualifications:

Required:

• Master’s of Business Administration Degree
• 3 – 5 years’ of extensive healthcare or physician practice management experience
• Expertise in Anesthesia or Perioperative Operations
• Strong financial, analytical, and leadership skills

Skills & Competencies

• Advanced healthcare operations management
• Strong financial and analytical skills
• Expertise in productivity-based physician compensation models
• Deep understanding of anesthesia workflows and perioperative operations
• Regulatory and compliance knowledge
• Exceptional organizational and problem-solving abilities
• High-level communication and executive presence
• Ability to manage sensitive compensation and performance data with discretion

Essential Functions:

Department Operations & Leadership

• Direct and manage daily operational functions of the anesthesia department across all clinical sites (Hospital ORs, endoscopy, labor & delivery, procedural areas, remote ambulatory sites)
• Assist Department leadership as operational liaison between anesthesiologists, CRNAs, hospital and system administration, perioperative leadership, and external vendors
• Develop, implement, and continuously improve standard operating procedures (SOPs) to enhance efficiency, throughput, and cost control
• Lead departmental initiatives to improve all performance improvement metrics, reduce case delays, improve room turnover, and optimize staffing alignment with surgical demand

Provider Scheduling & Workforce Management

• Provide support implementing and managing anesthesia provider scheduling, including:
  • Call coverage
  • Holiday and weekend coverage
  • Coordinate daily census and assignments for providers and client sites of service
  • Vacation and leave management
  • Equitable workload distribution
• Balance staffing levels against surgical volume, acuity, and financial constraints
• Forecast staffing needs and develop contingency plans for coverage gaps
• Actively mitigate overtime, locums usage, and staffing inefficiencies
• Coordinate all meeting logistics
• Provide administrative support to Department leadership
• Liaise between providers and System Human Resources when necessary

Credentialing, Compliance & Regulatory Oversight

• Oversee credentialing, re-credentialing, privileging all providers and sites of service
  • Ensure compliance with:
  • Hospital bylaws and medical staff requirements
  • CMS, Joint Commission, and payer regulations
  • State licensing and DEA requirements
• Maintain accurate provider records and proactively manage credentialing timelines to prevent revenue disruption
• Coordinate onboarding, orientation and offboarding processes for providers

Payroll, Compensation & Productivity Management

• Administer and manage a productivity-based compensation model, including:
  • Case volume tracking
  • Units (ASA units, time units, RVUs, or custom productivity metrics)
  • Call and differential pay
• Verifies accurate charge capture of all encounters into the charge capture system,
• Ensure accurate payroll processing for physicians and CRNAs, including reconciliation of productivity data
• Analyze compensation trends and identify opportunities to improve fairness, transparency, and financial sustainability
• Collaborate with leadership on compensation plan design, updates, and modeling

Quality Metrics, Performance Data & Reporting

• Collect, analyze, and report clinical quality and operational performance metrics, including:
  • On-time starts
  • Case delays and cancellations
  • Provider productivity
  • Compliance and documentatit hospital quality initiatives, value-based programs, and performance improvement plans
  • Translate operational and quality data into actionable insights for physicians and leadership

Financial Management & Business Oversight

• Manage departmental budgets, expense tracking, and financial reporting
• Identify cost-containment opportunities without compromising clinical quality
• Collaborate with billing and revenue cycle teams as necessary
• Analyze financial performance and assist in forecasting and strategic planning
• Work with HIM/Administration/IT to ensure providers are compliant with documentation requirements in order to prevent delay of facility and professional billing

Business Development & Strategic Growth

• Identify and pursue business development opportunities, including:
  • Expansion of anesthesia coverage to new service lines and sites of service
  • Support for hospital growth initiatives
  • Contract renewals and negotiations support
• Prepare operational and financial analyses to support new business proposals
• Serve as a strategic advisor to physician leadership on growth and operational scalability

Hospital & Stakeholder Relationship Management

• Maintain strong working relationships with:
  • Hospital executives
  • OR leadership
  • Nursing and perioperative teams
  • Finance and compliance departments
• Represent the anesthesia practice in operational meetings and committees
• Proactively address operational concerns and resolve conflicts impacting patient care or physician satisfaction

Other Duties:
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Benefits and Perks:
At RWJBarnabas Health, our employees are at the heart of everything we do. Driven by our Total Wellbeing promise, our market-competitive offerings include comprehensive benefits and resources to support our employees’ physical, emotional, financial, personal, career, and community wellbeing. These benefits and resources include, but are not limited to:

• Paid Time Off including Vacation, Holidays, and Sick Time
• Retirement Plans
• Medical and Prescription Drug Insurance
• Dental and Vision Insurance
• Disability and Life Insurance
• Paid Parental Leave
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Student Loan Planning Support
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Wellness Programs
• Voluntary Benefits (e.g., Pet Insurance)
• Community and Volunteer Opportunities
• Discounts Through our Partners such as NJ Devils, NJ PAC, and Verizon
• ….and more!

Choosing RWJBarnabas Health!
RWJBarnabas Health is the premier health care destination providing patient-centered, high-quality academic medicine in a compassionate and equitable manner, while delivering a best-in-class work experience to every member of the team. We honor and appreciate the privilege of creating and sustaining healthier communities, one person and one community at a time. As the leading academic health system in New Jersey, we advance innovative strategies in high-quality patient care, education, and research to address both the clinical and social determinants of health.

RWJBarnabas Health aims to truly make a unique impact in local communities throughout New Jersey. From vastly improving the health of local residents to creating educational and career opportunities, this combination greatly benefits the state. We understand the growing and evolving needs of residents in New Jersey—whether that be enhancing the coordination for treating complex health conditions or improving community health through local programs and education.