Chief Medical Officer - HCA Houston W - Houston MC

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical coverage with many common services at no cost or low copay, including prescription drug and behavioral health coverage, free telemedicine services, and free AirMed medical transportation
• Dental and vision benefits
• Life and disability coverage
• Flexible spending accounts
• Supplemental health protection plans (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity)
• Auto and home insurance
• Identity theft protection
• Legal counseling
• Long-term care coverage
• Moving assistance
• Pet insurance
• Free counseling services and resources for emotional, physical, and financial wellbeing
• 401(k) Plan with 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service)
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan with 10% off HCA Healthcare stock
• Family support through fertility and family building benefits with Progyny and adoption assistance
• Referral services for child, elder, and pet care, home and auto repair, event planning, and more
• Consumer discounts through Abenity and Consumer Discounts
• Retirement readiness, rollover assistance services, and preferred banking partnerships
• Education assistance (tuition, student loan, certification support, dependent scholarships)
• Colleague recognition program
• Time Away From Work Program (paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage, and leaves of absence)
• Employee Health Assistance Fund offering free employee-only coverage to full-time and part-time colleagues based on income

About the role

The Facility Chief Medical Officer (CMO) ensures high quality, patient-centered care by leading clinical and quality initiatives that support consistent clinical performance and practice standards across the hospital. The CMO provides senior-level leadership to infection control, risk management, safety, and medical staff credentialing functions, ensuring collaboration and coordination of all stakeholders. The CMO facilitates analysis of quality performance and prioritization of improvement opportunities, consults on issues involving physicians, and contributes to overall hospital strategy and service line development to ensure quality management and promote optimum patient experience.

Responsibilities

Physician Alignment

• Leads clinical performance expectations supporting goals of consistent clinical performance and practice standards across the facility to ensure superior clinical outcomes and unparalleled patient experience
• Works with Hospital Chief Medical Officers, Chief Executive Officers, medical staffs, and Boards of Directors to improve functionality and effectiveness of the hospital medical staff organization
• Partners with medical staffs and hospital management teams, facilitating teamwork and shared goals
• Represents medical staff viewpoints to management and relays management viewpoints to medical staff by establishing and maintaining mutually beneficial relationships between HCA leadership and community and/or employed physicians
• Provides clinical support and consultation regarding cost-effective clinical resource management by sharing reports and recommendations to reduce variable cost per case while maintaining and enhancing clinical effectiveness
• Creates a data-driven environment of quality and cost improvement and develops systems to review utilization of resources and objectively measure outcomes of care in inpatient and outpatient settings
• Serves as direct liaison between HCA-affiliated physicians and facility/corporate clinical services functions
• Establishes and maintains an ongoing program to orient and develop management expertise for Hospital Chiefs of Staff, Medical Executive Committees, and other medical staff leaders by providing oversight and leadership for all medical education programs
• Leads educational sessions and provides ongoing in-service programs to facility medical staff regarding clinical resource management, appropriate documentation standards, utilization and quality issues, and quality improvement activities, in collaboration with the Chief of Staff or other clinical leadership
• Assembles regional physician advisory panels to provide ongoing feedback to HCA senior management and serves as liaison between committees and facility/corporate leadership, as well as affiliated physicians
• Serves as spokesperson to HCA hospitals and affiliated physicians to explain and obtain buy-in for corporate-, group-, and facility-sponsored clinical initiatives
• Collaborates daily with other facility and corporate CMOs
• Educates physicians on HCA clinical technologies
• Collaborates with HPG and Supply Chain on formulary and supply opportunities

Medical Staff Affairs

• Develops, implements, and monitors disruptive physician and impaired physician policies, and develops monitoring and intervention programs in the region
• Provides recommendations in the development and/or revision of hospital policies and procedures pertinent to the medical staff and medical staff affairs
• Serves as consultant to hospital Medical Staff Services regarding physician credentialing, utilization, and quality profiling
• Serves as member of hospital’s peer review committees as requested

Business Development and Payer Relations

• Evaluates clinical appropriateness of new medical technologies and programs, and makes recommendations concerning relevance to HCA hospitals
• Serves as resource and consultant to the Vice President Physician Services Group and/or Vice President Business Development in physician recruitment, clinical program development, and overall hospital strategy
• Provides medical director services to facility-level physician credentialing, business development, and provider relations in contracting issues
• Provides medical consultation on contracting, pricing, and analysis of managed care issues
• Offers clinical support for appeals and denials process, discharge planning, case management, and utilization review/management
• Consults with facility-level staff regarding delegated utilization management and disease management operations under managed care contracts
• Meets all regulatory/contractual/accreditation requirements associated with these functions
• Serves as clinical resource and consultant to hospital case managers and hospital staff in reduction of payer denials and in the denial and appeals process, as requested by Case Management Department and Patient Accounting Services
• Attends corporate, group, division, and national meetings sponsored by HCA corporate to train and support quality improvement, risk management, patient safety, case management, medical staff affairs, and physician relations activities

Quality/Evidence-Based Practice/Patient Safety

• Promotes consistent, positive patient interactions that advance the agenda of unparalleled patient service
• Provides clinical support and guidance in development and deployment of all quality initiatives designed to increase practice of evidence-based medicine within H