Associate Medical Director - Inland Empire

Optum CA is seeking a Associate Medical Director to join our team in Inland Empire Region, CA. Optum is a clinician-led care organization that is changing the way clinicians work and live.

As a member of the Optum Care Delivery team, you’ll be an integral part of our vision to make healthcare better for everyone.

At Optum, you’ll have the clinical resources, data and support of a global organization behind you so you can help your patients live healthier lives. Here, you’ll work alongside talented peers in a collaborative environment that is guided by diversity and inclusion while driving towards the Quadruple Aim. We believe you deserve an exceptional career, and will empower you to live your best life at work and at home. Experience the fulfillment of advancing the health of your community with the excitement of contributing new practice ideas and initiatives that could help improve care for millions of patients across the country. Because together, we have the power to make health care better for everyone. Join us and discover how rewarding medicine can be while Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Want to make a real difference in the lives you touch? LOOK NO FURTHER.

At Optum, we are transforming healthcare nationally while providing physician-led care locally. Work with the largest care delivery organization in the world and start doing your life’s best work.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Oversees both IPA (Independent Physician Associate) clinicians and Employed/Group clinicians in terms of risk adjustment, quality metrics, utilization management, patient satisfaction and inpatient metrics in the value-based care model
• Acts as liaison for communication with physicians, hospitals, and other providers in the community
• Engages in committees including quality improvement, peer review, specialty networks, contracting, and credentialing
• Supports affordability strategies including inpatient management, high risk member management, and site of service for specialist (optimal care strategies)
• Participates in recruitment efforts for employed physicians and other specialty services as needed by the organization to serve the region
• Works with local site leadership on clinical concerns within the practice and clinician quality of care issues
• Meets in-person with groups and individual clinicians when needed to support the IPA and employed clinicians and provides necessary data to seek opportunities and drive performance
• Identifies, implements and monitors processes improvement by identifying the unique needs of the region
• Will oversees local site physicians leaders for the IPA and employed/group sites
• Collaborates with operations dyad partners to achieve goals set by senior leadership including quality measures, risk adjustment, affordability, access

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in an outpatient clinic setting
• Active unrestricted license in CA
• Current board certification in IM/FM
• Willingness to learn risk adjustment, quality, utilization management, IPA and group management, etc.
• Proven solid written and oral communication skills
• Proven leadership qualities: collaborative, empowering others
• Willing or ability to commute to local sites within the designated region and meetings based at regional office in Ontario

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience in a leadership role
• Proven presentations skills