Chief Medical Officer

Key Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership across CHN, MSO, and RBE to ensure alignment to CHG's value-based care strategy
• Establish and enforce evidence-based clinical standards, pathways, and care models
• Partner with executive leadership to align clinical strategy with enterprise growth and strategic priorities
• Serve as the senior clinical voice in enterprise decision-making, balancing quality, access and cost
• Own enterprise performance for Total Cost of Care (TCOC) and Medical Loss Ratio (MLR)
• Translate financial and actuarial insights into actionable clinical interventions
• Promote physician adoption of cost-conscious, outcomes-driven clinical practices
• Collaborate with VBC leadership and Finance to ensure alignment between clinical decisions leading to desired patient outcomes and financial outcomes
• Lead enterprise efforts to reduce unwarranted clinical variability across providers, practices, and regions
• Standardize care delivery through protocols, pathways, and decision support
• Identify outliers and implement targeted interventions to improve consistency and achieve desired patient outcomes
• Embed accountability mechanisms to ensure adherence to standards
• Partnership with Value-Based Care (VBC) Leadership
• Collaborate closely with the VBC leader who identifies opportunities, develops strategies, and builds the plan
• Ensure clinical alignment and physician adoption of VBC strategies and initiatives
• Validate clinical appropriateness of VBC strategies and interventions
• Co-own outcomes related to quality, cost, and utilization
• Risk Management at Scale
• Identify and mitigate clinical, regulatory, and operational risks across a multi-site environment
• Ensure compliance with clinical standards, payer requirements, and regulatory compliance
• Balance innovation and growth with disciplined clinical governance
• Tactical Leadership & Practice-Level Engagement
• Maintain visible, consistent presence with physicians and clinical teams in clinics and regions
• Lead targeted interventions to address performance gaps in patient outcomes, quality, cost, and utilization
• Support execution of enterprise initiatives through direct physician engagement
• Reinforce expectations through real-time coaching and feedback

Candidate Profile

• MD and Board certification required
• 10+ years of clinical practice experience, with leadership in multi-site or networked environments
• Proven experience in value-based care, population health, or risk-bearing models
• Demonstrated success in improving MLR, utilization and Total Cost of Care
• Experience working across MSOs, provider networks, or integrated systems
• Physician Engagement & Influence
• Earns respect as a peer with the ability to influence without authority
• Skilled at navigating physician dynamics and driving behavior change consistent with CHG's Core Values
• Business & Financial Acumen
• Deep understanding of the relationship between clinical decisions and financial outcomes
• Comfortable translating data into clinical action to achieve desired patient outcomes
• Variability Reduction Discipline
• Relentless focus on standardization and consistency
• Uses data, transparency, and accountability to drive change
• Strategic & Tactical
• Thinks at the enterprise level while engaging directly in execution
• Able to "sell the plan" and mobilize physicians around a shared vision
• Drives adoption through clarity, persistence, and trust
• Change Leadership
• Able to anticipate and mitigate risk at scale
• Leadership Presence
• Peer first, not hierarchical
• Data-driven and clinically grounded
• Direct, clear, and accountable
• Sets high expectations and provides strong support
• Visible, engaged, and credible in the field