Optum Serve Chief Medical Officer - Remote
Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, 55400, USA
Listed on 2026-10-15
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Healthcare
Healthcare Management, Healthcare Consultant
For those who want to invent the future of health care, here's your opportunity. We're going beyond basic care to health programs integrated across the entire continuum of care. Join us in making healthcare work better for everyone through people-led, responsible AI while Caring. Connecting. Growing together.
Optum Serve (OS) is Optum and United Health Group's enterprise-level federal business. The OS Chief Medical Officer is accountable for clinical vision and quality, population health management, and clinical growth and innovation aligned to the strategic priorities of our most valued customers. The individual in this role will work in close collaboration with the OS Chief Executive Officer (CEO), OS Chief Operating Officer (COO) and other business and clinical leaders across the broader Optum and United Health Group enterprise to enable OS future growth and help our clients to deliver on their mission.
This is a key clinical and business leadership position reporting to the OS COO and is responsible for diverse functions within the organization.
You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remote
* from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.
- Clinical standards and governance.
20% - Enterprise clinical engagement. 10%
- Customer engagement. 20%
- Growth, clinical product development, clinical strategy. 50%
- Oversees executive clinical and quality oversight to OS programs, spanning a wide array of federal, state and commercial endeavors including services delivered in over 140 fixed clinics nationwide, 27 mobile medical units, large contracted provider networks and credentialling of >2M contracted care sites, a 24x7x365 global nurse advice line responsive to over 9.3M beneficiaries, and serving a diverse set of remote customers in 40 international locations.
- Serves as the senior OS clinician responsible for providing guidance and oversight through direct and matrixed relationships for over 24 senior physicians and 700 clinical staff.
- Develops and implements comprehensive medical and health strategies that align with OS's vision and goals and leads initiatives to improve health outcomes and drive innovation in healthcare delivery.
- Chairs the OS Executive Quality Committee (EQC) and provides oversight for all clinical, quality and peer review committees within the organization.
- Represents OS in medical and healthcare forums, conferences, and industry events, establishing the organization as a leader in the healthcare sector, and engages internal and external stakeholders through thought leadership.
- Serves as the most senior OS clinical representative to Optum Health (OH), United Healthcare (UHC) and United Health Group (UHG), fostering integration and knowledge-sharing across products, services, and teams.
- Oversight of clinical and quality teams enabling everyone to operate at the top of their capabilities.
- Establishes a comprehensive view of health services across OS's various contracts and capability areas to include public health, population health, access to care, social determinants of health, health equity, care coordination, preventive services, community engagement, health system planning, emergency preparedness, and program evaluation.
- Provides oversight for optimizing the system of care provided to OS's end-users, including but not limited to 6M Veterans eligible for VA Community Care Services and 16.2M Veterans eligible for medical disability examinations.
- Collaborate with federal agencies and state governments to implement comprehensive programs that promote healthy lifestyles, including nutrition education, physical activity initiatives, mental health support, and…
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