Medical Director

Compensation: $180.00 - $200.00/HR

1. Required Licensure & Credentials

- Active, unrestricted state medical license

- Board Certification (preferred):
Hospice & Palliative Medicine (HPM), or Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, or Geriatrics with hospice experience

- DEA registration

- NPI number

- Completed U.S. residency training

2. Professional Liability Insurance (Mandatory)

- Proof of current malpractice coverage

- Annual Certificate of Insurance (COI) required

3. Experience & Competency Requirements

- Prior hospice or palliative care experience strongly preferred

- Ability to perform hospice eligibility determinations

- Strong skills in certification/recertification documentation

- Active participation and leadership in IDG meetings

- Proficiency in symptom management for end-of-life care

4. Regulatory & Compliance Expectations

- Knowledge of CMS Hospice Conditions of Participation (CoPs)

- Understanding of hospice face-to-face (F2F) requirements

- Ability to maintain compliant, defensible medical documentation

5. Availability Requirements

- Timely completion of certifications, recertifications, and death certificates

- Participation in IDG meetings, approximately 2 hours every 2 weeks

- After-hours availability to take calls from hospice team

6. Orientation & Onboarding Requirements

- Onboarding with HR

- Training on hospice philosophy and policies

- CoPs and documentation training

- EMR training

- Medication formulary and prescribing expectations

To ensure qualified medical direction and consultation for the delivery of hospice services and programs. To demonstrate that the Medical Director/hospice team physician has overall responsibility for patient care through documentation that demonstrates interaction/ communication with the attending physician as necessary for appropriate medical care.

The hospice Medical Director will provide oversight of physician services by complementing attending physician care, acting as a medical resource to the interdisciplinary group, assuring continuity of hospice medical services, and assuring appropriate measures to control patient symptoms. The Medical director will serve as a hospice champion – promoting and representing the program to physicians, physician groups, discharge planners, other referral sources, community health organizations, and potential donors, as appropriate.

• Devoting his/her best ability to the proper management of the program

• Providing overall medical direction to the program including supervision of all hospice physician employees and contract hospice physicians

• Assuring that the established policies, bylaws, rules, and regulations of the organization are followed in the program

• Adhering to requirements, terms, and conditions required by Medicare Conditions of Participation, CHAP, and federal and state statutes governing the provision of services

• Establishing and continually reviewing policies and procedures related to patient care, medical education, and emergency procedures

• Developing and continually reviewing, in cooperation with the Executive Director/Administrator and/or Clinical Director, criteria to monitor the quality of the education programs provided to physicians, personnel, and volunteers

• Evaluating quality assurance and performance improvement plans and monitoring to identify medical education needs in cooperation with the Executive Director/Administrator and/or Clinical Director

• Proposing organizational programs to address the needs identified (with the assistance and input of consultants of the specialties where medical education needs were identified)

• Working with the Executive Director/Administrator and/or Clinical Director, after implementation of the programs, to determine the impact of said programs on the quality of care

• Serving as a hospice champion in the community

• Acting as a liaison to community physicians by providing consultation and education to colleagues and attending physicians related to admission criteria for hospice and palliative care

• Acting as medical liaison with other physicians

• Providing training regarding the medical aspects of caring for terminally ill patients to…