Medical office managers are responsible for overseeing the overall operations of a medical office to ensure it runs smoothly and efficiently. This includes looking for ways to reduce costs through more efficient operations and coding and billing processes. Medical office managers work in various healthcare settings like private practices, hospitals, clinics, and other facilities. They oversee administrative functions and aim to save the practice money through cost reductions.

1. Medical Office Managers are responsible for the overall operations of the medical office. This person must ensure that the
medical office is running smoothly and proficiently. The person in this capacity can be expected to constantly look for ways to
save the practice money by running more efficiently and reducing operating costs. The individual also oversee the critical
coding and billing processes.
Career Overview
Medical Office Managers work in private practice, hospitals, clinics and elsewhere. In medicine,“private practice”includes
general and family doctors, or those in specialties such as pediatrics, surgery, psychiatry, obstetrics, orthopedics, etc. In
dentistry, it includes general practitioners, oral surgeons, orthodontists, periodontists, etc. In addition, other health care
providers, some of whom do not necessarily have an M.D. or D.D.S. degree, use assistants: optometrists, chiropractors, physical
therapists, podiatrists, osteopaths, psychologists, counselors, nutritionists, and homeopaths. Trained medical and dental office
assistants also work in hospitals of many sizes and specialties, in emergency rooms, clinics, and convalescent centers.
Career Path
Medical Office Manager
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Median annual wages of wage and salary medical and health
services managers were $80,240 in May 2008. The middle 50
percent earned between $62,170 and $104,120. The lowest 10
percent earned less than $48,300, and the highest 10 percent
earned more than $137,800. Median annual wages in the
industries employing the largest numbers of medical and health
services managers in May 2008 were:
General medical and surgical hospitals
Outpatient care centers
Offices of physicians
Home health care services
Nursing care facilities
$87,040
74,130
74,060
71,450
71,190
EarningsEmployment Outlook
SOURCE: http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos014.htm#outlook
NOTE: Data in this table are rounded. See the discussion of the
employment projections table in the Handbook introductory
chapter on Occupational Information Included in the Handbook
Projections data from the National Employment Matrix
EMPLOYMENT
2008
PROJECTED
EMPLOYMENT 2018
CHANGE,
2008-2018
283,500 328,800
for Medical and Health Services Managers
16%
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