Associate Medical Director - Saginaw, MI
Company: UnitedHealth Group
Location: Saginaw
Posted on: May 13, 2022
Job Description:
This is a Full-Time Associate Medical Director
opportunity!Landmark Health, part of the Optum and UnitedHealth
Group family of businesses, was created to transform how healthcare
is delivered to the most medically vulnerable members in our
community. Our medical group provides home-based medical care to
chronically ill patients, many of whom are ill-equipped to navigate
our overwhelming healthcare system.Do you want to make a difference
in healthcare?Landmark Health was created to transform how
healthcare is delivered to the most medically vulnerable members in
our community. Our medical group provides home-based medical care
to chronically ill patients, many of whom are ill-equipped to
navigate our overwhelming healthcare system.Because many of our
patients are frail and elderly, we deliver care primarily in the
comfort of their home. Our Program is also offered to eligible
patients at no incremental financial cost to them. We are not a
fee-for- service practice; we benefit economically only if we
deliver high-quality patient outcomes and satisfaction. As a
result, our clinical teams can spend quality-time caring for a
smaller number of patients, giving all patients the space, respect,
compassion and care they deserve.At Landmark, our interdisciplinary
teams collaboratively manage our complex patient panels. These
teams are led by Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, and Physician
Assistants, with supporting care provided by RN Nurse Care
Managers, Social Workers, Pharmacists, Behavioral Health, and other
employed team members.Join Landmark to be part of a growing company
full of purpose-driven, action-oriented, and compassionate team
members working to dramatically transform healthcare for our
communities.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 marketThe 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.
-Primary Responsibilities:Direct & Indirect Patient Care
- 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
- Remain current in the knowledge of geriatrics, utilization
management, quality management, managed care principals and new
clinical developments and technologies
- Participate in the continuous assessment and improvement of the
quality of care provided to members
- At the direction of the Market Medical Director participate in
the resolution of medically related grievancesTeam Performance
Management
- Supervise POD leaders and advanced practice practitioners
directly reporting to AMD, including conducting regular 1:1s,
proactively providing performance feedback, reviews and mentorship,
overseeing provider education, in-service training, and
orientation
- Support the Market Medical Director in recruiting advanced
practice practitioners and physicians in their zone, ensuring the
pursuit of talent with the appropriate mix of clinical skills and
behavioral qualities to retain a high performing team
- Proactive ownership for zone's performance against key clinical
and operational performance metrics
- Ownership of onboarding support and clinical education to
providers in the zone
- Assist with creating, publishing and participating in the call
schedule, approving PTO and other administrative
activitiesInterdisciplinary Team Leadership
- Lead and participate in interdisciplinary team meetings,
including case reviews that engage the full team, teaching on
relevant clinical topics, and training on new protocols and
workflows
- Participate in provider and physician meetings
- Join daily huddle with a focused team of interdisciplinary
staff Health Plan & Community Relations
- Assist Market Medical Director in enhancing community
relationships with targeted and local hospitals, PCPs, community
acute care, SNF, LTC and ALF facilities in the market
- Act as a local leader and advocate for the Landmark model with
community providers and delivery systems and other community
partners or potential business partners
- Serve as an advocate for the team with community providers when
escalation is necessary and ensure appropriate resolutionStrategy &
Standardization
- Support implementation of centrally led initiatives and develop
market-led improvement initiatives Other
- Support Market Medical Director when not available for meetings
within and outside of Landmark
- Participate actively in all Peer Review activities
- Other duties as assigned by the Market Medical DirectorYou'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.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
- Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Geriatrics sub-specialty
or Family Practice
- 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
- 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
- Current in the knowledge of geriatrics, utilization management,
quality management, managed care principals and new clinical
developments and technologies
- Proven ability to analyze staffing needs sufficient to care for
the patient panel
- Access to reliable transportation; if you are driving a
vehicle, you must comply with all the terms of the Landmark Motor
Vehicle Safety Policy
- Ability to travel by plane or car
- Full COVID-19 vaccination is an essential requirement 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 complianceTo protect the health and safety of our workforce,
patients and communities we serve, UnitedHealth Group and its
affiliate companies require all employees to disclose COVID-19
vaccination status prior to beginning employment. In addition, some
roles and locations require full COVID-19 vaccination, including
boosters, 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.Careers with Optum. Here's the idea. We built an entire
organization around one giant objective; make health care work
better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the world's
large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health
and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our
first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to
serve. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses,
brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas
on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest
potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams
against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible
ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity to do
your life's best work.(sm)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 by law.UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free
workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before
beginning employment.
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