Lead Physician - Primary Care Cincinnati

AbsoluteCare; Cincinnati (OH); On-site; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Integrated team support

Opportunity to impact population health

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Cincinnati seeks a Lead Primary Care Physician to oversee patient care for medically complex members. This role involves guiding clinicians, mentoring care teams, and collaborating with the Medical Director. The ideal candidate will have a medical license, over 5 years of experience, and excel in leadership and communication. This position offers an opportunity to deliver impactful, value-based care to our members while addressing their unique social determinants of health.

Qualifications

• Active, unrestricted medical license in the state of employment.
• 5+ years of clinical experience and administrative experience leading interdisciplinary teams.
• Experience working for a clinic, community-based organization and inpatient unit.

Responsibilities

• Provide Primary Care services to a panel of members.
• Work in a team environment with social work and nursing.
• Accept same day/next day urgent appointments.

Skills

Team leadership

Coaching and mentoring

Excellent communication skills

Population health management

Education

Active, unrestricted medical license

5+ years of clinical experience

Job description

AbsoluteCare is seeking a dynamic, mission-driven Lead Primary Care Physician to put the principles of team-based collaborative care and population health into action for our medically complex & socially vulnerable members.

The Lead Physician provides direct clinical care to a panel of members. They guide clinicians on best practices on delivering value-based care. Additionally, they work closely with our Medical Director to provide clinical leadership to our providers, Nurses, Behavioral Health specialists, and Medical Assistants.

4 Key Areas For Responsibility For The Lead Physician

• Provide excellent primary care to a panel of members, leading your pod interdisciplinary care team
• Coach fellow providers in how to provide excellent primary care / urgent care / or community care to their members, and effectively lead their interdisciplinary care teams. Mentor care teams during population health huddle to achieve their quality and utilization goals.
• Alongside the Medical Director, the Lead Physician is the clinical leader in the center. They address questions from and provide clinical guidance to nurses, MAs, and fellow providers about clinical cases as they arise.
• The Lead Physician is core part of the center and market’s leadership team. They are accountable for driving the market toward successfully achieving its quality, utilization and engagement goals. Alongside the medical director, they partake in leadership meetings, and will also be AbsoluteCare’s ambassador to community based organizations, hospital systems, and payer partners.

Duties And Responsibilities

• Provide Primary Care services to panel of members.
• Work in a team environment (with social work, care management, behavioral health, nursing, pharmacy, nutrition, etc.), process feedback, and facilitate discussion and implementing plans of care from other members of the team.
• Coach and mentor physicians and Advance Practice Providers.
• Accept same day/next day or urgent appointments for patients from home or discharged from the hospital/ER/skilled nursing facility in need of intensified physician or case management/social work services to ensure acute episode has resolved and the patient is not admitted/readmitted.
• Possess a comfort level and the knowledge to differentiate when exacerbation can be treated within AbsoluteCare and when a higher level of care is needed.
• Work with Medical Director to forge partnerships with academic programs and community-based organizations to enhance provision of services to members.
• Vigilant in keeping track of patients and their disease processes to prevent ER visits, admissions to the hospital, and readmissions.
• Practice evidenced based medicine and in accordance with the PCMH model of care.
• Able to keep track of and successfully obtain specified quality metric goals.
• Perform other duties as required consistent with chronic care and disease management services provided to patients.
• Implement plans of care in collaboration with the patient, their family and other team members.
• Develop strong transitional care plans and able to keep track of paneled patients along the whole continuum of care including hospital discharges, ER, skilled nursing facilities and home care.
• Use technology and the electronic health record to the highest capability to increase quality initiatives and efficiency within the practice.
• Provide on-call coverage for the office in rotation with other providers.
• Develop clinical protocols and pathways to upskill all clinical support staff to practice top of license
• Approximately 70-80% time dedicated to direct clinical care.

Minimum Qualifications

• Active, unrestricted medical license in the state of employment.
• 5+ years of clinical experience and administrative experience leading interdisciplinary teams.
• Experience working for a clinic, community-based organization & inpatient unit.
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills.
• Independent self-starter and critical thinker interested in population health, healthcare utilization management, and the ongoing development of our care model.

AbsoluteCare is designed to care for society’s most complex patients under innovative value-based care arrangements. Our patients have typically been underserved by the traditional health care system, resulting in frequent bouncing between emergency rooms, hospitals, and specialists. Our health care teams break the status quo by transforming our members’ experience to improve quality of life and overall health outcomes while reducing high costs of unnecessary utilization. This exceptional care is provided by an integrated team of primary care providers, complex care managers, nurses, medical assistants, behavioral health clinicians, and community health workers. We offer complex, coordinated medical care with our onsite infusion center, full pharmacy, and lab & imaging suites. We also address the social determinants of health, addressing housing instability, food insecurity, and social isolation.