Physician-primary care

Job description

Perm role in Cincinnati

Working Schedule is 8-5 M-F

Salary 250-325 plus bonus depending on qualifications

4 key areas for responsibility for the Lead Physician:

Provide excellent primary care to a panel of members, leading your pod interdisciplinary care team

Coach fellow providers in how to provide excellent primary care / urgent care / or community care to their members, and effectively lead their interdisciplinary care teams. Mentor care teams during population health huddle to achieve their quality and utilization goals.

Alongside the Medical Director, the Lead Physician is the clinical leader in the center. They address questions from and provide clinical guidance to nurses, MAs, and fellow providers about clinical cases as they arise.

The Lead Physician is core part of the center and market's leadership team. They are accountable for driving the market toward successfully achieving its quality, utilization and engagement goals.

Duties and Responsibilities Provide Primary Care services to panel of members.

Work in a team environment (with social work, care management, behavioral health, nursing, pharmacy, nutrition, etc.), process feedback, and facilitate discussion and implementing plans of care from other members of the team.

Coach and mentor physicians and Advance Practice Providers.

Treatment of acute exacerbations of chronic conditions onsite.

Accept same day/next day or urgent appointments for patients from home or discharged from the hospital/ER/skilled nursing facility in need of intensified physician or case management/social work services to ensure acute episode has resolved and the patient is not admitted/readmitted.

Possess a comfort level and the knowledge to differentiate when exacerbation can be treated within client and when a higher level of care is needed.

Work with Medical Director to forge partnerships with academic programs and community-based organizations to enhance provision of services to members.

Vigilant in keeping track of patients and their disease processes to prevent ER visits, admissions to the hospital, and readmissions.

Practice evidenced based medicine and in accordance with the PCMH model of care.

Able to keep track of and successfully obtain specified quality metric goals.

Perform other duties as required consistent with chronic care and disease management services provided to patients.

Implement plans of care in collaboration with the patient, their family and other team members.

Develop strong transitional care plans and able to keep track of paneled patients along the whole continuum of care including hospital discharges, ER, skilled nursing facilities and home care.

Track and successfully obtain specified quality metric goals.

Use technology and the electronic health record to the highest capability to increase quality initiatives and efficiency within the practice.

Participate in multi-disciplinary meetings and recommend treatment initiatives designed to keep patients healthy or resolve ongoing clinical issues.

Provide on-call coverage for the office in rotation with other providers.

Develop clinical protocols and pathways to upskill all clinical support staff to practice top of license

Approximately 70-80% time dedicated to direct clinical care.

Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications Active, unrestricted medical license in the state of employment.

1-5+ years of clinical experience and administrative experience leading interdisciplinary teams.

Experience working for a clinic, community-based organization & inpatient unit.

Experience with training and mentoring.

Excellent interpersonal communication skills.

Strong problem solving, project management and organization skills.

Independent self-starter and critical thinker interested in population health, healthcare utilization management, and the ongoing development of our care mode

Worksite address

cincinnati, OH, 45208, US

Who can apply

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