Associate Medical Director
About the role
As an Associate Medical Director (AMD), you will serve as an instrumental clinical leader of our primary care team, combining clinical practice with leadership and operational management to ensure high-quality patient care and alignment with Value-Based Care (VBC) principles. You will report to our Chief Medical Officer for San Antonio and work onsite.
Responsibilities
- Leadership & Organizational Management
- Develop a clinical strategy aligned with organizational and market priorities, trends, and goals to advance clinical talent and performance.
- Interview, hire, and supervise clinical teams to build a high-quality, engaged, and patient-first culture with strong talent retention.
- Engage closely with clinicians and care teams through weekly onsite center visits, regular 1:1 meetings, clinician pod meetings, and monthly leadership meetings.
- Improve primary care clinician performance using data-driven insights and effective coaching for individuals and care teams.
- Participate in market performance meetings on topics such as Medical Risk Adjustment (MRA), budgeting, staffing, operational excellence, and clinical initiatives.
- Champion senior-focused primary care initiatives and foster stakeholder relationships with health plan partners, specialists, hospitals, and social services to enhance community care.
- Represent CenterWell/Conviva brands in local communities and media while collaborating with recruitment to build a pipeline of high-quality primary care clinicians (physicians, APPs, MAs, and other clinical professionals).
- Clinical/Patient Management
- Foster a patient-centered, value-based clinical vision and culture that emphasizes excellence in care, teamwork, and outcomes.
- Drive leading clinical performance in patient experience, quality of care, clinical outcomes, and avoidable utilization.
- Periodically review clinician charts to identify care opportunities, ensure accurate clinical assessments, and provide precise performance improvement and coaching.
- Identify critical issues for high-risk patients during case reviews and model clinical excellence.
- Conduct root cause analysis of care opportunities from individual, team, and systems perspectives and partner with colleagues to improve high-reliability care.
- Ensure clinicians effectively co-manage high-risk patients with the Care Integration Team (CIT) for transitions of care management (TCM), high-risk patient management (HRPM), and social determinants of health (SDOH) efforts.
- Monitor and manage daily patient care and initiatives to improve team-based KPIs, such as patient experience (Net Promoter Score) and Medicare clinical quality (HEDIS).
- Personally deliver high-quality primary care, demonstrating excellence in age-friendly senior primary care, including health promotion, disease management, specialist/hospital co-management, and complex care management.
- Spend 20-30% of time on direct patient care, with the remainder dedicated to administrative responsibilities. Time allocation may vary based on market needs and staffing levels.
- Dyad Partnership
- Collaborate with operational leaders (Associate Operations Director and/or Market President) and Shared Services partners to align on clinical and operational goals, strategic planning, and budgeting.
- Maintain regular communication to ensure unified decision-making and consistent messaging for cohesive leadership.
- Work toward common goals supporting the mission, vision, values, and patient experience outcomes while managing clinic/market dynamics and engagement.
- Partner on strategic and operational insights, including capital and operational budgeting, and monitor clinical and financial performance metrics.
- Review clinician schedules and incentive plans to align with patient care access and management goals.
Requirements
- Graduate of an accredited medical school (MD/DO) with a current medical license, maintaining licensure requirements of the state of jurisdiction.
- Board Certification in Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, or Geriatric Medicine.
- Minimum five years of experience in outpatient practice, with clinical experience in primary care, senior health, and value-based care (VBC).
- Minimum three years of experience successfully leading clinicians in a leadership role, with demonstrated impact on clinician talent, culture, and performance, and effective partnership with operations and supporting teams.
- If selected for this role, you will be required to be screened for TB.
Schedule
Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40
Pay
The compensation range below reflects a good faith estimate of starting base pay for full-time (40 hours per week) employment at the time of posting. The pay range may vary based on geographic location and individual pay will depend on demonstrated job-related skills, knowledge, experience, education, and certifications.
$310,000 - $368,500 per year
This role is eligible for a bonus incentive plan based on company and/or individual performance.
Benefits
Humana, Inc. and its affiliated subsidiaries offer competitive benefits designed to support whole-person well-being. Benefits include:
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
- 401(k) retirement savings plan.
- Paid time off, including company and personal holidays, paid parental and caregiver leave.
- Short-term and long-term disability.
- Life insurance.
- Additional opportunities and programs to support well-being.
About Us
About Conviva Senior Primary Care: Conviva Senior Primary Care provides proactive, preventive care to seniors, including wellness visits, physical exams, chronic condition management, screenings, and minor injury treatment. As part of Humana’s Primary Care Organization, Conviva’s value-based approach ensures patients receive the best care at the lowest cost while addressing physical, emotional, behavioral, and financial needs.
About CenterWell, a Humana company: CenterWell is a leading healthcare services business focused on creating integrated, patient-centered experiences. As the largest provider of senior-focused primary care, CenterWell delivers accessible, comprehensive, and personalized care through primary care, home healthcare, specialty care, hospice, and retail pharmacy services. CenterWell is part of Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM). Learn more at CenterWell.com.