Physician

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Flexible Schedule

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MD providers are expected to complete their work as professionals and do not practice on a shift basis, enjoying the flexibility to adjust their work schedule around their families and other important priorities. We do not have 12-hour on-site work shifts or extensive after-hour clinic work duties. Retention is important to us, so we want to make sure our providers can maintain a good quality of life.

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MD provides after-hours call coverage support, so you can enjoy your time away from work without being interrupted by calls.

• Provide physician coverage for a dynamic service area, usually including 8 to 20 skilled facilities, depending on geographic distance, patient volume, etc. Covered facilities may be added or changed to meet current contractual needs.
• Determine and conduct an appropriate rounding schedule to accommodate skilled and custodial patient visit requirements
• Conduct and appropriately document timely patient visits in compliance with clinical need and regulatory requirements.
• Efficiently manage long-term care (custodial) patients, including ACO REACH patients in nursing facilities
• Participate in brief daily rounds for ACO REACH patients - discuss the change in status, condition with ACO REACH medical director
• Manage medical care of patients on skilled days; ensure adequate visits according to contract requirements and medical necessity; effect safe and timely discharge from skilled level of care. Requirements are defined in accordance with applicable legal and regulatory standards
• Conduct (or delegate, as appropriate) timely monthly visits to all custodial patients in designated service area in accordance with California Title 22 requirements.
• Respond to direct phone calls and pages from 7:00 AM to 6:00 PM, Monday through Friday, according to CCMD policy (see Clinical Operations Manual; Section 3, Communications).
• Initiate adequate daily communication with Call Center for review and follow-up of non-critical calls, pages, requests for orders, lab results, etc. Provide clear direction for nurse callbacks.
• Thorough and accurate medical documentation of all visits using SOAP format in group EMR.
• Dictate timely discharge summary for skilled patients returned to care of PCP.
• Participate equally in shared daytime weekend call with option to participate in overnight and weekend call for additional pay
• Participate in QI program and Peer Review
• Attend medical staff meetings
• Active, ongoing patient/family communication.
• Appropriate CPT and ICD
  10 coding and daily submission of billing forms to office.
• Timely completion of all medical records and signing of telephone orders and charts in accordance with facility and other applicable requirements and regulations.

The Supervising Physician is responsible for coordinating rounding schedules and team-specific work processes in collaboration with the clinical team. Patient visits are prioritized based on new admissions, (whether patients are skilled or custodial), acuity of skilled patients, any changes in patient condition, follow-up of on-call phone log activity, family requests and routine (for subsequent custodial visits).

Generally, Nurse Practitioners will be available to perform the admission history and physical, alternate routine custodial visits, and regular skilled and medically necessary visits as appropriate. They will also support the physician by handling laboratory results and responding to family and facility calls regarding patient care. These activities need to be coordinated between team members so that expectations are clear. Urgent pages require response within 15 minutes and routine pages within 60 minutes.

In any case where clinical concerns or risk or quality issues exist, the NP is responsible for addressing these with the supervising physician. (See Figure 2.1)

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