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The Associate Medical Director (AMD) is an instrumental clinical leader of our primary care team, combining clinical practice with leadership and operational management to ensure high-quality patient care and alignment with Value-Based Care (VBC) principles. This market/center-specific role requires flexibility to adapt responsibilities as needed and demands a unique blend of clinical management, financial/business acumen, and strategic partnership to optimize patient care and business outcomes.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Leadership & Organizational Management:
Understand organizational & market priorities, trends, and goals, to develop a clinical strategy to advance clinical talent and performance
Interview, hire, and supervise clinical teams to staff and develop a high-quality clinical team with strong engagement, patient-first culture, and talent retention
Closely engage and communicate with clinicians and care teams, conducting weekly onsite center visits, holding regular individual 1:1s and clinician pod meetings, and actively participating in monthly leadership meetings
Deeply understand, support, and improve primary care clinician performance through understanding of individual & care team @context, effective use of data, and effective coaching of clinicians and care teams
Engage in regular market performance (clinical, financial, operational) meetings on key topics such as Medical Risk Adjustment (MRA), budgeting, staffing, operational excellence, and clinical initiatives
Champion our senior-focused primary care strategic vision and initiatives and foster stakeholder relationships, including health plan partners, healthcare providers (e.g. specialists, hospitals) and social services, to improve our community of care locally
Represent CenterWell/Conviva brands in local communities and related media activities while collaborating with the recruitment team to build and network a pipeline of high-quality primary care clinicians (physicians, APPs, MAs, and other clinical professionals)
Utilize clinical performance dashboards and data tools to support stack ranking, performance analysis, and targeted strategy development
Foster a culture of continuous learning and professional growth among clinical teams
Clinical/Patient Management:
Foster a robust patient-centered and value-based clinical vision, strategy, and culture locally that orients care teams around excellence in patient care, teamwork, outcomes
Deliver leading clinical performance in patient experience, quality of care, clinical outcomes, and avoidable utilization
Periodically review clinician charts to identify opportunities in care, ensuring clinical assessments are accurate and that performance improvement and coaching initiatives are precise
Identify critical issues for high-risk patients during case reviews & other forums, and model and drive clinical excellence
Conduct root cause analysis of care opportunities from both individual, team, and systems perspectives and partner with clinical and operational colleagues to improve high-reliability care as a team
Ensure clinicians effectively co-manage high-risk episodes of care and patients with partnered Care Integration Team (CIT) resources and programs for transitions of care management (TCM), high-risk patient management (HRPM), and social determinants of health (SDOH) efforts, improving clinical outcomes and avoidable utilization
Monitor and manage daily patient care and initiatives to improve team-based key performance indicators (KPIs), such as patient experience via Net Promoter Score (NPS) and Medicare clinical quality via HEDIS, meeting local and organizational goals
Personally deliver high-quality primary care and demonstrate a high degree of patient care ownership and clinical excellence in age-friendly senior primary care including health promotion & prevention, disease management, effective specialist & hospital co-management, and complex care management
Spend 20-50% of time on direct patient care, with remaining time dedicated to administrative responsibilities. The percentage of time may vary by market needs and by staffing levels throughout the year
Support clinical quality performance improvement in areas such as MRA, Stars, and prevention of unnecessary utilization through provider education and coaching
Promote team-based care delivery and foster collaboration across interdisciplinary teams
Dyad Partnership:
Collaborate with operational leaders (Associate Operations Director and/or Market President) and Shared Services partners to align on clinical and operational goals, strategic planning, and budgeting
Maintain regular communication to align on performance, strategies, and team communication and management, ensuring unified decision-making and consistent messaging for cohesive leadership
Work together towards common goals that support the mission, vision, values, and overall patient experience outcomes, managing clinic/market dynamics and engagement
Partner on strategic and operational insights, including capital and operational budgeting, and monitor clinical & financial performance and metrics
Review clinician schedules and incentive plans to align with patient care access and management goals
Use your skills to make an impact
Required Qualifications:
Graduate of an accredited medical school (MD/DO) with a current medical license, maintaining licensure requirements of the state of jurisdiction
Board Certification in Family Medicine, Internal Medicine or Geriatric Medicine
Minimum five years of experience in outpatient practice, with clinical experience in primary care, senior health, and value-based care (VBC)
Minimum three years of experience successfully leading clinicians in a leadership role with demonstrated impact on clinician talent, culture, and performance, and effective partnership with operations and supporting teams
Skilled in use of clinical technology platforms and resources, such as EMR systems (e.g. athenahealth, Epic, eClinicalWorks), voice documentation tools (e.g. Dragon, Abridge), and clinical evidence & pathway resources (e.g. UpToDate)
This role is considered patient-facing and is part of CenterWell's Tuberculosis (TB) screening program. If selected for this role, you will be required to be screened for TB
Candidates selected for this job will be required to adhere to Humana's flu vaccine policy
Scheduled Weekly Hours
40
Pay Range
The compensation range below reflects a good faith estimate of starting base pay for full time (40 hours per week) employment at the time of posting. The pay range may be higher or lower based on geographic location and individual pay will vary based on demonstrated job related skills, knowledge, experience, education, certifications, etc.
$310,000 - $368,500 per year
This job is eligible for a bonus incentive plan. This incentive opportunity is based upon company and/or individual performance.
Description of Benefits
Humana, Inc. and its affiliated subsidiaries (collectively, "Humana") offers competitive benefits that support whole-person well-being. Associate benefits are designed to encourage personal wellness and smart healthcare decisions for you and your family while also knowing your life extends outside of work. Among our benefits, Humana provides medical, dental and vision benefits, 401(k) retirement savings plan, time off (including paid time off, company and personal holidays, volunteer time off, paid parental and caregiver leave), short-term and long-term disability, life insurance and many other opportunities.
About Us
About Conviva Senior Primary Care: Conviva Senior Primary Care provides proactive, preventive care to seniors, including wellness visits, physical exams, chronic condition management, screenings, minor injury treatment and more. As part of Humana's Primary Care Organization, which includes CenterWell Senior Primary Care, Conviva's innovative, value-based approach means each patient gets the best care, when needed most, and for the lowest cost. We go beyond physical health - addressing the social, emotional, behavioral and financial needs that can impact our patients' well-being.
About CenterWell, a Humana company: CenterWell is a leading healthcare services business focused on creating integrated and differentiated experiences that put our patients at the center of everything we do. The result is high-quality healthcare that is accessible, comprehensive and, most of all, personalized. As the largest provider of senior-focused primary care, a leading provider of home healthcare and a leading integrated home delivery, specialty, hospice and retail pharmacy, CenterWell is focused on whole health and addressing the physical, emotional and social wellness of our patients. CenterWell is part of Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM). Learn more about what we offer at?CenterWell.com.
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