Associate Regional Medical Officer

Alignment Health is breaking the mold in conventional health care, committed to serving seniors and those who need it most: the chronically ill and frail. It takes an entire team of passionate and caring people, united in our mission to put the senior first. We have built a team of talented and experienced people who are passionate about transforming the lives of the seniors we serve.

In this fast-growing company, you will find ample room for growth and innovation alongside the Alignment Health community. Working at Alignment Health provides an opportunity to do work that really matters, not only changing lives but saving them. Together.

The Associate Regional Medical Officer is responsible for the clinical operations and clinical financial outcomes for Care as a Service (CAAS) offering. He or she will do this by maintaining and further improving Alignment’s clinical model. The Associate Regional Medical Officer will partner with the Regional Director and together they will lead the start-up and champion the growth of this offering.

• Provide strategic and operational direction for the delivery of performance based medical management.
• Manage budget and risk drivers.
• Analyze and report business performance data to customers, senior management, and the Board of Directors.
• Participate in the management of all the clinical divisions within the region.
• Engage in the analysis of local profit and loss performance.
• Work seamlessly and effectively with the non-clinical departments within the organization.
• Develop and maintain strong provider relationships.
• Maintain a customer-driven passion for excellence and commitment to innovation and implementation of ideas that improve the healthcare of the patient population.
• Execute and implement timely and high-quality decisions.
• Will also be responsible for all clinical duties performed by Extensivists including but not limited to:
• Manage patients in the hospitals
• Manage patients in the Care Center.
• All patients discharged from the hospital are seen by the hospitalists in the clinic until they are stabilized.
• Manage the ‘skilled’ patients in the SNFs.
• These patients are seen once a week until they remain skilled, which is normally from 1 to 2 weeks.
• Across all settings of care, create a comprehensive and coordinated plan of care which considers information from medical records, the patient and their families, primary care physicians, and specialists as necessary.
• supervisory responsibilities Oversees assigned staff.
• Responsibilities include:
  
  recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees; assigning workload; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results; and coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees.

Minimum Requirements:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• 2-3 years of Hospitalist, Family Practice, or Internist experience preferred but will also consider graduating residents and fellows.
• 1-3 Years of administrative experience
• 1-3 Years of managed care experience preferred Basic understanding of the UM/QM process

• NPI (must, upon start)
• Medical Doctorate (M.D.) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.)
• Internal Medicine or Family Medicine Residency
• Completion of residency program in the United States
• Board Certification required
• Medical License in the state in which you are applying; DEA license; must be board certified or board eligible in specialty

• Career interest in management preferred
• Substantial knowledge…