Is There a Difference between a Medical Office Manager and a Healthcare Administrator?
These days a medical office manager is usually the individual responsible for the day to day running of a physician’s office including staffing, insurance and financial issues but in most cases it is still the physician, or physicians who make all the major decisions. A practice healthcare administrator on the other hand, is most often employed by larger physician groups and holds a great many more responsibilities including coming up with business strategies to grow the practice by which they are employed. Healthcare Managers In a hospital setting one may be more likely to encounter a number of healthcare managers, each responsible for a specific department, often one in which they have personal clinical experience. Many hospital based healthcare managers are RNs themselves who have undergone additional training to become their department’s healthcare manager.
