Medical Director-Evercare-CarePlus-Pittsburgh - Full-time / Part-time

How comfortable are you outside your comfort zone?  It takes courage to find out how good you can be. In the Medical Director role with Optum, you will utilize a vast array of skills such as Medical Management, Marketing, Leadership and more.  The best part is when you work to better people's lives, one of those lives will always be yours.

Optum is seeking an energetic and can-do Medical Director for its Institutional Special Needs Program (I-SNP) and community based products in Piitsburgh. 

Medical Director Key Objectives:

Meet with Primary Care Physicians  to develop and help maintain successful clinical and business relationships  with Optum-CarePlus

Educate and coach our team of mid-level providers (NPs and PAs) on current geriatric standards of care, efficient use of clinical resources, and appropriate quality measures for those individuals who are frail and elderly.

Drive efficient use of medical resources to achieve the most appropriate clinical outcomes for long-term care residents.  This is achieved through an established retrospective review of hospitalizations and medical expense management reports.

Be the business lead for ensuring comprehensive, meaningful, and accurate documentation and coding in the medical record.

Requirements:
-MD or DO with an active, unrestricted license
-Board Certified in an ABMS or AOBMS specialty-Internal Medicine, Family Medicine or Geriatrics 

-Minimum of 5 years of geriatric and long-term care experience

-Significant health care management/leadership experience preferred

-5+ years clinical practice experience -Intermediate or higher level of proficiency with managed care
-2+ years Quality Management experience

UnitedHealth Group is working to create the health care system of tomorrow.



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Through our family of businesses and a lot of inspired individuals, we're building a high-performance health care system that works better for more people in more ways than ever. Now we're looking to reinforce our team with people who are decisive, brilliant - and built for speed.



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