Medical Director, Extended Care

CareMore Provider Leasing, PLLC; Cerritos (CA); On-site; USD 307,000 - 460,000; Full time

Job summary

CareMore Provider Leasing, PLLC is seeking a Regional Medical Director, Extended Care to lead clinical, operational and strategic performance across a regional team. This senior physician leader oversees multiple clinics and provider groups, driving value-based care, regulatory compliance and high-quality patient outcomes in alignment with enterprise goals.

You will shape population health initiatives, mentor physician leaders, manage cost of care and coordinate with care management, UM, and

Responsibilities

• Provide physician leadership across clinics, markets, and regions.
• Establish clinical standards, workflows, and evidence-based care.
• Ensure consistent care delivery across accountable teams.
• Lead regional medical strategy aligned with enterprise goals.
• Serve as senior physician escalation point for clinical issues.
• Lead and develop physician leaders and advanced practice providers.
• Conduct performance management, coaching, and development planning.
• Partner with Talent Acquisition on provider hiring and workforce planning.
• Drive population health initiatives and high-risk patient management.
• Own regional cost performance and monitor cost leakage.
• Collaborate with care management, UM, and network partners.
• Support market growth, new market launches, and expansions.
• Lead operational change initiatives and workflow redesign.
• Provide clinical leadership during restructures and transitions.
• Ensure budget adherence and staffing decisions.
• Build relationships with health plans and community providers.

Job description

Job Description Summary

The Regional Medical Director, Extended Care is a senior physician leader responsible for the clinical, operational, and strategic performance of an assigned team. This role provides leadership across multiple care teams, provider teams, and interdisciplinary clinical functions to ensure the delivery of exceptional patient outcomes within a value-based care model. This leader is accountable for translating enterprise strategy into execution while ensuring clinical excellence, regulatory compliance, and sustained provider performance. Partnering with medical services and other support teams, they are ultimately responsible for driving quality outcomes, total cost of care performance, utilization management, provider engagement, and clinical excellence across multiple teams. The role is accountable for advancing population health strategies, supporting provider performance, and ensuring regulatory and quality compliance within the region. CareMore’s model is deeply rooted in population health, proactive care coordination, and high-risk member management, so this role is highly focused on outcomes, prevention, and reducing avoidable utilization. This is often a people leader role over multiple physician leaders, not just individual clinicians.

How will you make an impact & Requirements

Key Responsibilities

Clinical Leadership

• Provide physician leadership across multiple clinics, markets, teams, or regions.
• Establish clinical standards, workflows, and evidence-based care practices.
• Ensure consistency in care delivery across all accountable teams.
• Lead regional medical strategy aligned with enterprise goals.
• Serve as the senior physician escalation point for clinical issues.

Provider Leadership & Talent Management

• Lead and develop physicians leaders, advanced practice providers, and clinical leaders.
• Conduct performance management, coaching, and development planning.
• Support succession planning and physician leadership pipeline development.
• Partner with Talent Acquisition on provider hiring and workforce planning.
• Lead physician engagement and retention initiatives.

Value-Based Performance Accountability

• Own regional performance for: HEDIS STAR ratings RAF / risk adjustment readmission reduction emergency department utilization inpatient admissions length of stay total cost of care.
• Lead interventions for high-risk and chronic populations.
• Drive medical expense improvement initiatives.
• Partner with care management and UM leadership.

Operational Partnership

• Support market growth strategy and geographic expansion.
• Partner with network, pharmacy, case management, and UM.
• Lead operational change initiatives.
• Support workflow redesign and transformation efforts.
• Provide clinical leadership during restructures, new market launches, and regional transitions.

Financial & Business Accountability

• Accountable for clinical cost performance across assigned region.
• Monitor provider productivity and panel performance.
• Identify trends in utilization and cost leakage.
• Develop and support budget and staffing decisions.
• Drive margin improvement through clinical interventions.

External Relationship Management

• Build strategic relationships with health plan partners.
• Engage community providers and referral networks.
• Represent CareMore in market-level clinical partnerships.
• Support provider relations and physician network engagement.
• Serve as physician-facing leader in community and payer meetings.

Compensation Range

Compensation Range: $306,907.00 to $460,361.00 The anticipated base salary range represents the Company's good-faith estimate of the compensation it reasonably expects to pay for this position at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, skills, qualifications, geographic location, internal equity, and business needs.