Physician Liaison
EyeSouth Partners
- Atlanta, GA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Develops and fosters relationships with referring physicians to increase patient referrals. Consistently works to ensure solid relationships and referral pathways are smooth.
- Leads initiatives to build volume and favorable provider perceptions among internal and external referral streams.
- Increases visibility of services by strategically visiting targeted referral sources.
- Identifies tactics to promote provider interaction and engagement.
- Oversees efforts to ensure Practice is positioned competitively to protect and grow market share. This includes routine analysis of the strengths and services of competitors.
- Develops and implements an ongoing method of profiling and monitoring market areas to identify demographic, competitor, and changes in healthcare services.
- Uses patient survey scores from practices and hospital services to identify opportunities to correct items that have a negative impact on referrals.
- Measures and evaluates liaison activities including producing and sharing regular summaries of patient visits and their outcomes as well as their impact on referral trends.
- Meets with local practices, hospital administrators, physicians, and clinical directors as needed to build upon the referral network.
- Continuously networks and provides practice/physician brochures to referring physicians, hospitals, and practices.
- Organize and schedule necessary physician meetings.
- Delivers weekly reporting of the previous week’s visits, including highlights outcome, and plan for follow up strategy.
- Delivers weekly reporting of plan for the following week including visits, plan, admin, and lunch and learns.
- Assists with the setup of all educational meetings for referring physicians and internal staff.
- Exercises discretion and independent judgment in meeting the needs of the referring physician and problem solving to maintain healthy referral relationships.
- Contributes to the team effort by completing other tasks as needed.
- Associate's or Bachelor's degree in sales, marketing, healthcare administration, or related field preferred.
- 3+ years’ experience in healthcare sales strongly preferred.
- Highly motivated and target driven with a proven track record in sales.
- Experience analyzing data, statistics, and product lines.
- General medical knowledge, especially related to our facility's services, treatment offerings, and equipment preferred.
- Demonstrates ability to use persuasive communication, leadership, and relationship/rapport building.
- Ability to travel as needed.
- Strong interpersonal, communication, public speaking, and organizational skills.
- Ability to work in a fast paced, patient service-oriented environment.
- Demonstrates ability to promote quality improvement through development and maintenance of standards.
- Intermediate computer skills including Microsoft Office; especially Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Excellent interpersonal skills including the ability to interact effectively and professionally with individuals at all levels; both internal and external.
- Exercises sound judgment in responding to inquiries; understands when to route inquiries to next level.
- Self-motivated with strong organizational skills and superior attention to detail.
- Must be able to manage multiple tasks/projects simultaneously within inflexible time frames. Ability to adapt to frequent priority changes.
- Team player that develops strong collaborative working relationships with internal partners and can effectively engage and ability to build consensus among cross-functional teams.
- Strong problem solving and negotiation skills.
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- 401k w/ Match
- HSA/FSA
- Telemedicine
- Generous PTO Package
- Employee Discounts and Perks
- Employee Assistance Program
- Group Life/AD&D
- Short Term Disability Insurance
- Long Term Disability Insurance