Physician - Maternal Fetal Medicine

Job Summary

We believe that every award earned, every record broken and every patient helped is because of the dedicated employees who fill our hallways. Come make a difference at Ochsner Health and discover your future today!

Responsibilities

• Examine the health of a patient to help make proper diagnosis of clinical conditions and prescribing medication, treatments, and follow-up care as required.
• Prescribes pharmaceuticals, other medications, and treatment regimens to treat identified and documented medical conditions.
• Provides care directly and indirectly by working with other members of an interdisciplinary team to formulate treatment plans.
• Timely record patient encounters in Electronic Health Record.
• Requests further medical evaluations and makes referrals, as necessary.
• Understand and commit to the highest standards of professionalism; willingness to hold others to those standards.
• Commit to collaboration with all members of the department to provide quality patient care.
• Accurately codes all patient visits.
• Complies with policies, procedures, bylaws, processes of privileging/credentialing, and standards of care that are conducive to the provision of high-quality medical services consistent with accreditation standards, state and federal licensure or regulations, Medicare, Medicaid, and other regulations, guidelines, requirements, and statutes as applicable.

Requirements

• Board certified or eligible for certification in physician’s primary specialty.
• Licensed Practicing Provider (MD/DO).
• Credentialed and willing to maintain clinical practice.

Qualifications

• Remains knowledgeable on current federal, state and local laws, accreditation standards or regulatory agency requirements that apply to the assigned area of responsibility and ensures compliance with all such laws, regulations and standards.

Physical and Environmental Demands

• Light Work - Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly.
• Must be able to travel throughout and between facilities.