Primary Care Physician - Physician Lead

Job Description

Job Description

Description:

The Primary Care Physician (PCP) works as a lead in our team-based care environment. We are a value based care provider focused on quality of care for the patients we serve. Our care team consists of Doctors, Advanced Practice professionals, Pharm D, Care Coach Nurses, Medical Assistants, Behavioral Health, Specialists, Quality Based Coders, Referral Coordinators and more. Our approach allows us to provide an unmatched experience for seniors. Our model is positioned to provide higher quality care and better outcomes for seniors by providing a concierge experience, multidisciplinary services, coordinated care supported by analytics and tools, and deep community relationships. This robust support allows our PCP to see fewer patients and spend more time with those they do.

Responsibilities:

Staffing Model: 1MD, 2 APP’s, adding a Physician Lead due to growth. Lead will oversee APPs or Physician + APPs in the clinic.
Patients per day: 12-15 possibly up to 17

The role will still have a heavy clinical responsibility to treat patients.

• Evaluates and treats center patients in accordance with standards of care.
• Follows level of medical care and quality for patients and monitors care using available data and chart reviews.
• Assists in the coordination of patient services, including but not limited to specialty referrals, hospital and SNF coordination, durable medical equipment and home health care.
• Acts as an active participant and key source of medical expertise with the care team through daily huddles.
• Helps Regional Medical Director and Center Administrator in setting a tone of cooperation in practice by displaying a professional and approachable demeanor.
• Completes all medical record documentation in a timely manner working with a quality- based coder to optimize coding specificity.
• Follows policy and protocol defined by Clinical Leadership.
• Meets with RMD about quality of care, review of outcome data, policy, procedure and records issues.
• Participates in potential growth opportunities for new or existing services within the Center.
• Participates in the local primary care “on-call” program of CenterWell as needed.
• Assures personal compliance with licensing, certification, and accrediting bodies.
• Spend most of your time clinically focused on direct patient care, inclusive of patient facing time and general administrative time (charting, meetings, etc.) as it relates to direct patient care.

Additional Information:

• $205,000-$300,000/ year
• Total compensation package (base pay + bonus) could exceed $300K depending on experience and location
• Excellent benefit package – health insurance effective on your first day of employment
• CME Allowance/Time
• Occurrence Based Malpractice Insurance
• Relocation and sign-on bonus options
• 401(k) with Employer Match
• Life Insurance/Disability
• Paid Time Off/Holidays
• Minimal Call

Required Qualifications:

• Current and unrestricted medical license or willing to obtain a medical license in state of practice; eligible and willing to obtain licenses in other states in the region of assignment, as required ?
• Graduate of accredited MD or DO program of accredited university
• This role is considered patient facing and is a part of our Tuberculosis (TB) screening program. If selected for this role, you will be required to be screened for TB
• Board Certification in Family Medicine, Internal Medicine or Geriatric Medicine
• Active and unrestricted DEA license
• Medicare Provider Number
• Medicaid Provider Number
• Minimum of two to five years directly applicable experience
• Experience managing Medicare Advantage panel of patients with understanding of Best Practice in coordinated care environment in a value based relationship environment
• Knowledge of Medicare guidelines and coverage
• Knowledge of HEDIS quality indicators