Senior Medical Director

Senior Medical Director

Requirements

• M.D. / D.O. / DNP graduates, Physicians will be board certified in Internal Medicine or Family Medicine. DNPs should be certified in a primary care domain.
• Board certified in Internal Medicine or Family Medicine.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in outpatient practice.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in a physician management role or role as medical director, managing a medical group of 20 or more providers.
• Extensive experience in clinical leadership roles, leading and coaching physicians to be the best they can be for their patients and their colleagues.
• Experience with managed care and/or value-based practice and familiarity with payer-provider collaboration.
• Experience using a metrics-driven approach to analyze cost, quality, and satisfaction data to drive clinical strategy and program redesign.
• Excited by developing and implementing new processes.
• Self aware and confident in their leadership skills and eager to share those with a fast growing, passionate team on the leading edge of healthcare innovation.
• Understand the basics of managed care and recognize that population health and a focus on smart allocation of scarce resources can lead to high value care (better care, lower cost).
• Ability to remain calm in stressful situations.
• Commitment to Oak Street’s patient population.
• Comfort with ambiguity and a strong desire for problem solving.
• US work authorization.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor the health center Medical Directors in his/her region.
• Supervise center medical directors and ensure their priorities are in line with those of the organization.
• Assist in offering constructive feedback to providers to improve performance.
• Help medical directors master data-driven tools and practices required to keep patients well and out of the hospital.
• Review quality dashboards with medical directors, and implement initiatives to improve quality outcomes.
• Provide managed care perspective to medical directors as they lead their teams.
• Understand and communicate provider performance/compensation plans.
• Interview, hire, and retain providers throughout the region.
• Develop physician leadership in providers throughout the market, with support from Provider Services.
• Develop a pipeline of internal clinical leaders who are skilled in problem solving, communication, conflict resolution, value-based care delivery, and collaboration with clinicians and executives.
• Have input into a variety of organizational-wide projects, and join committees for clinical programs to support the enhancement of the care model.
• Represent Oak Street to external partners (e.g., payers, providers) and create relationships and partnerships that support our mission and our economics.
• Supervise the interdisciplinary Complex Care Teams focused on our highest need patients in the market.
• Supervise the Transitions Nurses, who track all hospitalized patients and coordinate post-discharge care.
• Partner with the population health and quality teams to advance our care model.
• Participate in documentation and coding activities, including provider education and review sessions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Fellowship training in Geriatrics and/or other professional degrees (e.g., M.B.A., J.D., M.P.H.) welcome but certainly not required.