Physician - Associate Medical Director - Optum - Home-based Medical Care

$60,000 Student Loan Repayment or $40,000 Sign-on Bonus for individuals who have not previously participated in this program.

At Prospero, part of Optum - a UnitedHealth Group Company, your work will empower people with complex health conditions to live their best life. Whether you're joining us in a clinical or non-clinical role, your contributions will help patients write their next chapters with joy and dignity. Help us build a new kind of health care that operates by establishing trust as the centerpiece of medical care. We will provide you with career growth opportunities, comprehensive benefits, brilliant coworkers and more to help you redefine what loving care looks like. Join a team of people with a heart for service and start doing your life's best work.(sm)

The Associate Medical Director (AMD) provides direct and indirect medical care and population health management to patients served by Landmark Health. This role reports directly to the Market Medical Director. This role also provides clinical and operational oversight to a team of physicians and advanced level practitioners assigned to them. The AMD also acts as a leader for the zone's interdisciplinary team accountable for serving a patient population and/or geography within a Landmark market

The AMD directs and helps build the capacity of a team of providers in a zone to manage a population of complex patients, and is responsible for achieving clinical outcomes, optimizing utilization/costs, and ensuring high patient satisfaction within that zone. This position is 60% direct and indirect patient care and 40% administrative.

Position Highlights:

• Provide medical care to a panel of patients of the highest complexity
• Transition high acuity patients back to longitudinal providers as patients' condition improves
• Act as a consultative physician focused on stabilizing the frailest and most vulnerable patients within the population
• Complete comprehensive chart reviews and ride alongs of providers in their respective zone in order to ensure high quality care of patients
• Participate in the market on call schedule and provide telephonic on-call coverage that require telephonic triage based on market needs
• Support advanced level practitioners with in-person or telephonic clinical consultations
• Provide real time supervision of Urgentivist Extenders (paramedics or RNs/LPNs/LVNs) as needed
• Review reports and data to improve population health for patients within their zone and patient panel
• Provide clinical leadership, oversee quality and execute clinical operations within a defined zone
• Oversee the application of specific measurements of quality and ensure that all providers consistently meet thresholds
• Other duties as assigned by the Market Medical Director

Compensation/Benefits Highlights:

• Competitive base pay and bonus rewards incentives
• Generous PTO package and eight holidays per year
• Matching 401k
• UnitedHealth Group offers medical, dental and vision health plans
• Life Insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) Coverage
• Spouse or Domestic Partner Life Insurance and AD&D
• Short and Long Term Disability Coverage
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Employee Discounts
• Paid Parental Leave
• Tuition Reimbursement
• And more...

What makes an OptumCare organization different?

• Our care model limits daily volume to allow our providers the time needed to provide quality care to their patients
• We offer clinical and leadership growth and stability second to none
• Providers are supported to practice at the peak of their license
• We are influencing change on a national scale while maintaining the culture and community of our local care organization
• The culture is one of clinical innovation and transformation

Required Qualifications:

• Physician currently licensed to practice without restriction in the state of practice and has met or exceeded all the credentialing requirements of a provider within the provider panel
• Current in the knowledge of geriatrics, utilization management, quality management, managed care principals and new clinical developments and technologies
• Experience in leading teams of physicians and mid-level providers in delivering high quality, cost effective care
• Experience in recruiting and hiring medical talent along with continuous supervision of the medical care delivered
• Ability to analyze staffing needs sufficient to care for the patient panel
• Experience in coaching members of the health care team to provide excellent care or, if needed, determine deficiencies in care and formulate a plan for improvement
• Access to reliable transportation; if you are driving a vehicle, you must comply with all the terms of the Landmark Motor Vehicle Safety Policy
• Full COVID-19 vaccination is an essential job function of this role. Candidates located in states that mandate COVID-19 booster doses must also comply with those state requirements. UnitedHealth Group will adhere to all federal, state and local regulations as well as all client requirements and will obtain necessary proof of vaccination, and boosters when applicable, prior to employment to ensure compliance. Candidates must be able to perform all essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation

Preferred Qualifications:

• Home-based clinical care experience
• Awareness about UM standards, NCQA requirements, CMS guidelines, Milliman guidelines, and Medicaid/Medicare contracts and benefit systems

About OptumCare:

At OptumCare, we've found that putting clinicians at the center of care is the best way to improve lives. Our physician-led organization is one of the most dynamic and progressive health care organizations in the world, serving over 17 million people through more than 45,000 aligned physicians and 9,000 advanced practice clinicians. You will find our team working in local clinics, surgery centers and urgent care centers, within care models focused on managing risk, higher quality outcomes and driving change through collaboration and innovation. Learn more at www.workatoptum.com.

To protect the health and safety of our workforce, patients and communities we serve, UnitedHealth Group and its affiliate companies now require all employees to disclose COVID-19 vaccination status prior to beginning employment. In addition, some roles require full COVID-19 vaccination as an essential job function. UnitedHealth Group adheres to all federal, state and local COVID-19 vaccination regulations as well as all client COVID-19 vaccination requirements and will obtain the necessary information from candidates prior to employment to ensure compliance. Candidates must be able to perform all essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation. Failure to meet the vaccination requirement may result in rescission of an employment offer or termination of employment.

**PLEASE NOTE** Employees must be in an active regular status. Employees must remain in role for a minimum of 12 months from the date of hire/rehire/transfer. If an employee leaves Home and Community, the student loan repayments will cease. The employee must remain in an Advanced Practice Clinician or Physician role within Home and Community for 36 months to receive the full benefit of the student loan repayments.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: OptumCare is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employers and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

OptumCare is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.