Nurse Practitioner Landmark Home Based Medical Care - Des Moines, IA

$10,000 Sign-on Bonus for External Candidates

Optum Home Base Medical Care

Des Moines Iowa

This is a Full-Time Opportunity!

Optum is seeking a NP Landmark Home Based Medical Care to join our Home-based Medical Care team in Des Moines, IA. Optum is a clinician-led care organization, that is creating a seamless health journey for patients across the care continuum.

As a member of the broader Home and Community Care team, you’ll help bring home-based medical care to complex, chronic patients. This life-changing work helps give older adults more days at home.

At Optum, the integrated medical teams who practice within Home and Community Care are creating something new in health care. Together, we are bringing high-end medical service, compassionate care and industry leading solutions to our most vulnerable patient populations. Our holistic approach addresses the physical, mental and social needs of our patients wherever they may be - helping patients access and navigate care anytime and anywhere. We’re connecting care to create a seamless health journey for patients across care settings. Join our team, it’s your chance to improve the lives of millions while Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

**Work Schedule: Monday-Friday from 8am-5pm EST with additional rotating on-call responsibilities**

As a Landmark Health Provider, now a part of the Optum family, you visit your panel of patients in the comfort of their own homes. You spend all the time needed to ensure your patients’ health issues are addressed. You create a friendly and trusting relationship with each patient and his or her family. You have the support of a collaborative, multidisciplinary clinical team who works in the field with you. And you do it all at no added cost to the patient.

Landmark is not a fee-for-service practice.

Primary Responsibilities:

Required Qualifications:

• Completion of Nurse Practitioner accredited program
• Current state NP license
• Knowledge of CPT, ICD-9 and HCPC codes
• Knowledge of clinical standards of care
• Knowledge of Windows 2000 and MS Office Word Processing software
• Proven ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public
• Proven ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent
• Proven ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form
• Access to reliable transportation; if you are driving a vehicle, you must comply with all the terms of the Landmark Motor Vehicle Safety policy

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2+ years of clinical experience
• Knowledge of long-term care, community resources and cost-effective alternatives regarding patient care delivery systems
• Awareness about UM standards, NCQA requirements, CMS guidelines, Milliman guidelines, and Medicaid/Medicare contracts and benefit systems