Medical Director Specialty Care Billings Market

Responsibilities

• Leadership: Practice medicine with excellence, as an example to others, exhibiting qualities and behaviors consistent with Employer’s Framework for Excellence.
• Provide leadership, management and coaching for providers toward the attainment of the clinical, quality, patient experience, productivity and strategic growth goals of Intermountain Health; assist in becoming a highly functional, integrated Medical Group.
• Hire Physicians, Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants in collaboration with market Associate Chief Medical Officer and Regional VP of Practice Operations.
• Collaborate with the Regional VP of Practice Operations, Practice Administrators and other members of the management team in the development of strategic plans, quality programs, practice transformation and initiatives in alignment with Intermountain Health.
• Maintain and enhance open and effective communication among providers, management teams, Care Site, and Intermountain Health.
• Serve as liaison, when appropriate, to internal and external customers.
• Meet regularly with leadership to develop strong relationships with providers and care teams that is essential to the successful performance of the practice and the organization;
• Engage and be responsible for performance of reporting Medical Directors and matrixed providers.
• Coordinate and participate in regular Practice meetings as a forum for dialogue around organizational strategic themes, clinical quality, patient experience, productivity and as a forum for gaining provider trust, input and feedback.
• Participate with market Associate Chief Medical Officer in quarterly Leadership rounding to assigned clinics.
• Aid in physician and APP recruitment, retention and interviewing activities.
• Attend PLC monthly meetings and subcommittee meetings as assigned.
• Partner with clinical programs and service line leadership, responsible for implementing clinical best practices, care process models to promote clinical excellence, and high realizability while reducing unnecessary clinical variation.
• Assist the Associate Chief Medical Officer in developing and deploying tools to measure care outcomes related to the improvement of care processes, in the context of clinical quality, service and access.
• Ensure that the services provided by the employed providers are compliant with all legal and regulatory requirements and will assist with monitoring and auditing when necessary.
• Responsible to provider engagement and performance to clinical quality metrics and at-risk measurements.

  Requirements

  • MD or DO with ABMS or equivalent AOA Board Certification in a relevant specialty.
  • Active Medical Licensure.
  • Full prescriptive authority and an active DEA, or the ability to obtain one.
  • Experience in leading successful quality improvement projects within the clinical setting.
  • Effective verbal, written, and interpersonal communications skills.
  • Open to a hybrid role (.4 admin and .6 clinical).
  • Based in Billings or willing to relocate to Billings, MT.
  • Ability to interact with others requiring caregiver to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information.
  • Ability to operate computers, telephones, office equipment, and manipulate paper requiring the ability to move fingers and hands.
  • Ability to remain sitting or standing for long periods of time to perform work on a computer, telephone, or other equipment.