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Full Time: Monday - Friday day shift
General Summary
Manages the day-to-day operations of a large or multi-site outpatient clinic, health center or a complex procedural practice and takes complete ownership for the successful operations including financial, employee engagement and retention, and patient experience. Works in a strong dyad or triad relationship with the provider leadership, centralized services leadership and/or clinical leadership on staff, leader and provider recruitment, development and retention.
WellSpan Medical Group
The WellSpan Medical Group is comprised of almost 5,000 employees and growing fast! We have medical practices that represent 51 specialty areas of medicine across 77 locations throughout Central Pennsylvania and Northern Maryland. Wherever your patient care interests fall - whether it’s caring for babies, to end of life care, or anywhere in between to include urgent care - join our amazing team and learn for yourself why WellSpan was just recognized in the Forbes’ list of the 100 best employers in Pennsylvania, with a ranking of No. 24!
Working together, our goal is to improve lives through exceptional care for all, lifelong wellness and healthy communities. Our culture is one of respect, diversity and inclusion.
Duties and Responsibilities
Essential Functions:
- Responsible for strong financial performance through ensuring proper controls and practices are followed and documented to secure the financial viability of the practice. Prepares and executes budget; monitors and approves payroll, ordering of supplies, and inventory. Also ensures accurate charge capture.
- Provides exceptional leadership and promotes teamwork and collaboration. Creates an environment that supports high employee and physician engagement. Strategically selects, on boards, continuously develops, rewards, retains, and provides transparent performance feedback to all staff, leaders, and physicians. Maintains competencies to function in any of the staff roles as needed in order to support efficient operations. If in a clinical capacity, the incumbent must possess the appropriate licensure to function in the role.
- Ensures compliance for various accrediting bodies and government agencies and performs all necessary reviews, audits, education, and training to maintain compliant status. Serves as the compliance liaison in designated practices.
- Determines physical maintenance and equipment needs and repairs and coordinates with internal or external resources. Resolves problems relating to the physical plant on a day-to-day basis to ensure the environment supports our employee’s engagement and meets our patients’ expectations.
- Collaborates with market manager to build and maintain community partnerships and relationships to attract new customers, retain existing customers and support the health system’s desired brand positioning. Partner with Public Relations and Marketing to support location, provider and/or specialty promotion.
- Continuously monitors the operations and workflow and revises operational procedures as necessary, in alignment with system practices, to ensure efficiency and drive extraordinary results. Constantly identifies and implements areas for improvement and efficiencies including identified quality indicators. Develops and maintains a culture of safety in order to prevent or reduce errors and improve quality for patients, providers, and staff.
- Provides highest level of patient experience by ensuring data is monitored on a regular basis and staff are constantly exhibiting behaviors and services that our patients expect and deserve. Coach staff as appropriate to optimize the patient experience and lead by example creating a personalized experience for customers. Proactively leads service recovery activities.
- Responsible for developing and implementing solutions on a project basis for Strategic Initiatives, Service Excellence, or Quality Measures. This work may have broader impact and scope beyond the incumbents assigned practice area. Provides influence and mentorship to less tenured Practice Managers and Supervisors. May also have a Practice Manager as a direct report(s) and may serve in an interim capacity over a vacant practice.
- Develops plans to identify and reach short- and long-term goals and assure development and compliance with operating and capital budgets and achievements of financial performance.
- Collaborate closely with the Shared Services, and other professional teams within the health system to ensure our patients are scheduled and arrived according to brand behaviors and ensures appropriate and compliant documentation, billing, and charging practices.
- Collaborates with all system leaders in the market and the medical group to provide seamless and integrated service to our patients.
- Understanding and overseeing all aspects of the provider revenue cycle, to include scheduling/registration, patient accounting, claims submission, and payment and denial processing are critical components of the role.
Common Expectations:
- Responsible for ensuring that high quality patient care and customer service is delivered in the most financially efficient way.
- Responsible for seeking out healthcare provider business challenges and creatively translating those challenges into requirements and solutions in a fast-paced environment.
- Customers include, but are not limited to regional leadership, physicians, providers, practice management, and staff. External customers include patients, and their caretakers, regulatory bodies, vendors and the community.
Required for All Jobs:
- Performs other related duties as identified.
- WellSpan Health has adopted and implemented a compliance program to support WellSpan's values and standards for professionalism, integrity, and ethics. Expected to support and meet the values and standards of the organization and the performance expectations of the job, the department, and the compliance program.
- WellSpan Health has adopted and implemented a privacy program to safeguard the patient information and the business and operational information of the organization. Expected to support and meet the values and standards of the organization to safeguard patient and business/operational information.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified.
Physical Demands:
- Standing - Occasionally
- Walking - Occasionally
- Sitting - Frequently
- Reaching - Rarely
- Talking - Frequently
- Hearing - Frequently
- Repetitive Motions - Occasionally
- Eye/Hand/Foot Coordination - Occasionally
Qualifications
Minimum Education:
- Bachelors Degree Health or business administration Required
- Masters Degree Preferred
Work Experience:
- 7 years Healthcare management experience Required
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Knowledge of organization policies, procedures, and systems
- Knowledge of health care administration practices / government and reimbursement regulations and requirements/HIPAA/OSHA regulations
- Skill in planning, organizing, delegating, and supervising
- Skill in gathering and interpreting data
- Ability to take initiative and to exercise independent judgment, decision-making, and problem-solving expertise
Benefits Offered:
- Comprehensive health benefits
- Retirement savings plan
- Paid time off (PTO)
- Education assistance
- Financial education and support, including DailyPay
- Expanded Paid Parental Leave
For additional details: Benefits & Incentives | WellSpan Careers (joinwellspan.org)
WellSpan Health’s vision is to reimagine healthcare through the delivery of comprehensive, equitable health and wellness solutions throughout our continuum of care. As an integrated delivery system focused on leading in value-based care, we encompass more than 2,300 employed providers, 250 locations, nine award-winning hospitals, home care and a behavioral health organization serving central Pennsylvania and northern Maryland. Our high-performing Medicare Accountable Care Organization (ACO) is the region’s largest and one of the best in the nation. With a team 23,000 strong, WellSpan experts provide a range of services, from wellness and employer services solutions to advanced care for complex medical and behavioral conditions. Our clinically integrated network of 3,000 aligned physicians and advanced practice providers is dedicated to providing the highest quality and safety, inspiring our patients and communities to be their healthiest.
Schedule
Full Time: Monday - Friday day shift
General Summary
Manages the day-to-day operations of a large or multi-site outpatient clinic, health center or a complex procedural practice and takes complete ownership for the successful operations including financial, employee engagement and retention, and patient experience. Works in a strong dyad or triad relationship with the provider leadership, centralized services leadership and/or clinical leadership on staff, leader and provider recruitment, development and retention.
WellSpan Medical Group
The WellSpan Medical Group is comprised of almost 5,000 employees and growing fast! We have medical practices that represent 51 specialty areas of medicine across 77 locations throughout Central Pennsylvania and Northern Maryland. Wherever your patient care interests fall - whether it’s caring for babies, to end of life care, or anywhere in between to include urgent care - join our amazing team and learn for yourself why WellSpan was just recognized in the Forbes’ list of the 100 best employers in Pennsylvania, with a ranking of No. 24!
Working together, our goal is to improve lives through exceptional care for all, lifelong wellness and healthy communities. Our culture is one of respect, diversity and inclusion.
Duties and Responsibilities
Essential Functions:
- Responsible for strong financial performance through ensuring proper controls and practices are followed and documented to secure the financial viability of the practice. Prepares and executes budget; monitors and approves payroll, ordering of supplies, and inventory. Also ensures accurate charge capture.
- Provides exceptional leadership and promotes teamwork and collaboration. Creates an environment that supports high employee and physician engagement. Strategically selects, on boards, continuously develops, rewards, retains, and provides transparent performance feedback to all staff, leaders, and physicians. Maintains competencies to function in any of the staff roles as needed in order to support efficient operations. If in a clinical capacity, the incumbent must possess the appropriate licensure to function in the role.
- Ensures compliance for various accrediting bodies and government agencies and performs all necessary reviews, audits, education, and training to maintain compliant status. Serves as the compliance liaison in designated practices.
- Determines physical maintenance and equipment needs and repairs and coordinates with internal or external resources. Resolves problems relating to the physical plant on a day-to-day basis to ensure the environment supports our employee’s engagement and meets our patients’ expectations.
- Collaborates with market manager to build and maintain community partnerships and relationships to attract new customers, retain existing customers and support the health system’s desired brand positioning. Partner with Public Relations and Marketing to support location, provider and/or specialty promotion.
- Continuously monitors the operations and workflow and revises operational procedures as necessary, in alignment with system practices, to ensure efficiency and drive extraordinary results. Constantly identifies and implements areas for improvement and efficiencies including identified quality indicators. Develops and maintains a culture of safety in order to prevent or reduce errors and improve quality for patients, providers, and staff.
- Provides highest level of patient experience by ensuring data is monitored on a regular basis and staff are constantly exhibiting behaviors and services that our patients expect and deserve. Coach staff as appropriate to optimize the patient experience and lead by example creating a personalized experience for customers. Proactively leads service recovery activities.
- Responsible for developing and implementing solutions on a project basis for Strategic Initiatives, Service Excellence, or Quality Measures. This work may have broader impact and scope beyond the incumbents assigned practice area. Provides influence and mentorship to less tenured Practice Managers and Supervisors. May also have a Practice Manager as a direct report(s) and may serve in an interim capacity over a vacant practice.
- Develops plans to identify and reach short- and long-term goals and assure development and compliance with operating and capital budgets and achievements of financial performance.
- Collaborate closely with the Shared Services, and other professional teams within the health system to ensure our patients are scheduled and arrived according to brand behaviors and ensures appropriate and compliant documentation, billing, and charging practices.
- Collaborates with all system leaders in the market and the medical group to provide seamless and integrated service to our patients.
- Understanding and overseeing all aspects of the provider revenue cycle, to include scheduling/registration, patient accounting, claims submission, and payment and denial processing are critical components of the role.
Common Expectations:
- Responsible for ensuring that high quality patient care and customer service is delivered in the most financially efficient way.
- Responsible for seeking out healthcare provider business challenges and creatively translating those challenges into requirements and solutions in a fast-paced environment.
- Customers include, but are not limited to regional leadership, physicians, providers, practice management, and staff. External customers include patients, and their caretakers, regulatory bodies, vendors and the community.
Required for All Jobs:
- Performs other related duties as identified.
- WellSpan Health has adopted and implemented a compliance program to support WellSpan's values and standards for professionalism, integrity, and ethics. Expected to support and meet the values and standards of the organization and the performance expectations of the job, the department, and the compliance program.
- WellSpan Health has adopted and implemented a privacy program to safeguard the patient information and the business and operational information of the organization. Expected to support and meet the values and standards of the organization to safeguard patient and business/operational information.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified.
Physical Demands:
- Standing - Occasionally
- Walking - Occasionally
- Sitting - Frequently
- Reaching - Rarely
- Talking - Frequently
- Hearing - Frequently
- Repetitive Motions - Occasionally
- Eye/Hand/Foot Coordination - Occasionally
Qualifications
Minimum Education:
- Bachelors Degree Health or business administration Required
- Masters Degree Preferred
Work Experience:
- 7 years Healthcare management experience Required
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Knowledge of organization policies, procedures, and systems
- Knowledge of health care administration practices / government and reimbursement regulations and requirements/HIPAA/OSHA regulations
- Skill in planning, organizing, delegating, and supervising
- Skill in gathering and interpreting data
- Ability to take initiative and to exercise independent judgment, decision-making, and problem-solving expertise
Benefits Offered:
- Comprehensive health benefits
- Retirement savings plan
- Paid time off (PTO)
- Education assistance
- Financial education and support, including DailyPay
- Expanded Paid Parental Leave
For additional details: Benefits & Incentives | WellSpan Careers (joinwellspan.org)
WellSpan Health’s vision is to reimagine healthcare through the delivery of comprehensive, equitable health and wellness solutions throughout our continuum of care. As an integrated delivery system focused on leading in value-based care, we encompass more than 2,300 employed providers, 250 locations, nine award-winning hospitals, home care and a behavioral health organization serving central Pennsylvania and northern Maryland. Our high-performing Medicare Accountable Care Organization (ACO) is the region’s largest and one of the best in the nation. With a team 23,000 strong, WellSpan experts provide a range of services, from wellness and employer services solutions to advanced care for complex medical and behavioral conditions. Our clinically integrated network of 3,000 aligned physicians and advanced practice providers is dedicated to providing the highest quality and safety, inspiring our patients and communities to be their healthiest.
Tips for Finding Physician Jobs at WellSpan Health
Verify Your Credentials Match State Licensing Requirements
Pennsylvania requires full medical licensure before you can practice, and WellSpan won't extend an offer without it. Confirm your ECFMG certification and USMLE steps are complete before applying, as credentialing delays can push back your start date and complicate visa filing timelines.
Target WellSpan's Harder-to-Fill Specialty Openings
Physicians in high-demand specialties like psychiatry, nephrology, and rural primary care attract more sponsorship flexibility from health systems. WellSpan's footprint across south-central Pennsylvania includes underserved areas, where filling positions is urgent enough to make visa sponsorship a straightforward employer decision.
Ask Recruiters Directly About J-1 Waiver Pathways
If you completed a J-1 residency or fellowship, WellSpan's locations may qualify for Conrad 30 waivers through Pennsylvania's state waiver program. Clarify this with the recruiter early, since J-1 waiver positions often come with a three-year service commitment that needs to align with your offer terms.
Use Migrate Mate to Find Physician Roles at WellSpan
Searching general job boards makes it hard to confirm which roles come with visa sponsorship. Migrate Mate filters specifically for sponsored Physician positions at health systems like WellSpan, so you're only spending time on opportunities where sponsorship is already on the table.
Negotiate Offer Timing Around H-1B Cap Deadlines
H-1B cap registration opens in March each year, and USCIS typically selects petitions within weeks. If your offer arrives after the lottery closes, you won't be able to start on H-1B status until October at the earliest. Build this into your negotiation and ask WellSpan's HR team about cap-exempt hospital affiliations.
Understand How PERM Affects Your Long-Term Green Card Timeline
WellSpan sponsors EB-2 and EB-3 Green Cards, but PERM labor certification through DOL can take a year or more before USCIS even receives your immigrant petition. Ask during the offer stage whether the employer initiates PERM proactively, or only after a set period of employment.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does WellSpan Health sponsor H-1B visas for Physicians?
Yes, WellSpan Health sponsors H-1B visas for Physician roles. As a large regional health system, WellSpan has an established process for working with international medical graduates through the H-1B petition process. Because Physicians are specialty occupation roles requiring a specific degree and licensure, they meet USCIS eligibility criteria for H-1B classification without ambiguity.
How do I apply for Physician jobs at WellSpan Health?
You can browse open Physician positions directly through WellSpan Health's careers portal. To find roles that explicitly include visa sponsorship, Migrate Mate lets you filter WellSpan's Physician openings by visa type so you're applying to positions where sponsorship is already confirmed, rather than having to ask about it after the fact.
Which visa types does WellSpan Health commonly use for Physician roles?
WellSpan sponsors Physicians on H-1B, J-1 visa, TN visa (for Canadian and Mexican nationals), F-1 OPT, and immigrant visa categories including EB-2 and EB-3. J-1 visa is common for residents and fellows completing training, while H-1B is the standard pathway for employed Physicians. TN visa is a faster option for qualifying Canadian or Mexican physicians without the lottery exposure.
What qualifications does WellSpan Health expect from Physician applicants?
WellSpan requires board certification or board eligibility in your specialty, an active Pennsylvania medical license, and ECFMG certification for international medical graduates. Most roles also require completion of a U.S.-accredited residency program. Some specialist roles expect fellowship training. Credentialing through WellSpan's medical staff office runs parallel to visa processing, so both tracks need to start early.
How do I plan my timeline when pursuing a sponsored Physician role at WellSpan Health?
Plan for six to twelve months between offer acceptance and your actual start date. Your employer needs to file the Labor Condition Application with DOL before USCIS can receive the H-1B petition, and if you're subject to the annual H-1B cap, your start date is locked to October 1. J-1 waiver cases through Conrad 30 add another layer, since state and federal agency approvals must happen before USCIS filing.