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Associate Medical Director - Home-based Medical Care - Optum

Employer
Optum
Location
Torrance, California
Posted Date
May 4, 2023
Reference
2156523

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Description - External

* $80,000 Student Loan Repayment Bonus or $40,000 Sign-on Bonus for individuals who have not previously participated in this program. *

Careers at Landmark, part of the Optum and UnitedHealth Group family of businesses. At Landmark, we work to deliver high quality, comprehensive care to chronically ill patients wherever they reside and whenever they need it. We focus on doing what's right for the people we serve, even when it's not easy. This is your opportunity to be part of a compassionate team that is setting out to change health care for complex, chronic patients. We're looking for driven people like you because changing the status quo takes dedication. Here, we'll invest in your personal and professional growth while giving you a unique opportunity to make a difference. Helping people feel their best is a rewarding part of 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.

This is an outstanding opportunity with a Fortune 5 Company to be at the forefront of our continued growth in this specialty area. Join us today!

Primary Responsibilities:
  • 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 with 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...
You'll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Qualifications - External

Required Qualifications:
  • Physician currently licensed to practice without restriction in the State of California
  • Medical Doctorate or Doctorate of Osteopathy
  • Board Certified or eligible with preference in Internal Medicine, Geriatrics or Palliative Medicine sub-specialty, Family Practice or Emergency Medicine
  • 5+ years experience as a physician
  • Experience managing and leading teams of physicians and mid-level providers
  • Experience in recruiting and hiring medical talent
  • Experience in coaching members of the health care team
  • Access to reliable transportation



Preferred Qualifications:
  • 2+ Home-based clinical care experience
  • Awareness about UM standards, NCQA requirements, CMS guidelines, Milliman guidelines, and Medicaid/Medicare contracts and benefit systems
Careers with Optum. Our objective is to make health care simpler and more effective for everyone. With our hands at work across all aspects of health, you can play a role in creating a healthier world, one insight, one connection and one person at a time. We bring together some of the greatest minds and ideas to take health care to its fullest potential, promoting health equity and accessibility. Work with diverse, engaged and high-performing teams to help solve important challenges.

**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.

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone-of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income-deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes - an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer 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.

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

Company

As the largest network of medical groups in the country, Optum serves patients from coast to coast. Our more than 80,000 aligned physicians and advanced practice clinicians are working together to improve health care through:

Caring: We provide stability, flexibility and other resources that help you be your best.

Connecting: Harness the power of our national reach to make an impact on your community. Collaborate with our expansive network of fellow clinicians to discover new ways to deliver care.

Growing together: Get the resources you need to better serve your patients — and your career. No matter what direction you want, your career path at Optum is limitless.

Optum is a truly remarkable place to practice medicine.

Join the thousands of physicians who are
Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Learn more at WorkAtOptum.com/Providers

 

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