The Savas Health Chief Medical Officer, reports to the Savas Chief Executive Officer for over-all strategic and operational direction with additional reporting relationships for clinically related matters to the Savas Health President. The primary responsibility of the position is to provide clinical leadership, input, and guidance for Savas medical and quality related efforts to assist Savas in meeting its strategic priorities, goals, and performance related metrics. The position will work closely with Savas Directors and Managers, Savas UTC Practice Physicians and Advanced Practitioners and many others in the Savas Healthcare system. The position will also have the responsibility to oversee the Savas Transdisciplinary Care Franchise model development nationally. This position requires you to travel to all locations as needed.
Primary Responsibilities
Provide clinical and quality medical guidance to the Savas Health Care organization.
Provide guidance on approaches to population management, quality improvement, cost reduction, risk coding and patient engagement to enable Savas Health to meet its short and long-term strategic priorities, goals and performance metrics. This shall include working with the Savas Health Leadership Team, Savas Health Physician and Advanced Practice Providers to provide guidance in development and implementation efforts to improve population health initiatives and strategies. Such work will include:
Provide clinical oversight, medical direction and support as needed to the Savas Health’s Care Coordination, clinical performance improvement teams.
Coordinate the efforts as needed of the Savas Health Physicians, Clinical and Advanced Practice Providers.
Provide clinical input and support to the Savas Health Analytics and Performance Improvement teams.
Participate as needed in Savas Health value-based contract negotiations with payers and employers.
Assist with payer and employer relations including but not limited to serving as the main point of contact for payer and/or employer Medical Directors.
Provide clinical input and support to Savas Health’s credentialing and enrollment activities including the final review of quality and efficiency metrics for physicians participating in Savas Health and overseeing the board certification and other relevant certification of physicians and Advanced Partitioners.
Engage and maintain relationships with Savas Health employed and Joint Venture private-practice physician leadership and other provider entity leadership. Participate in targeted recruitment of providers into the Savas Health organization to support ongoing and future expansion programs with Savas Healthcare organization.
Participate in the Savas Physician Group Practice Leadership Team meetings. Also, will work in a close consultative nature with Savas Joint Venture Physician Group Primary Care leadership and Savas Health Physician Group leaders on various clinical medicine and population management efforts.
In support of Savas Health’s mission, actively participate in research and teaching initiatives associated with population health and Clinical medicine. Such activity will include collaboration with various centers at Savas, such as the Savas University and VitaMed. www.savashealth.com 2
Participate in and/or facilitate, when requested, Savas Health Strategy & Operations meetings, Savas Health Board meetings, Savas Joint Venture Physician Group Population Management Leadership meetings and other Savas meetings promoting clinical and strategic efforts to advance clinical medicine and population health.
Participate and present at various conferences, seminars, and community events to champion the initiatives of Savas Healthcare.
Participate in the transformation of Savas Healthcare from a partial fee for service reimbursement model to a wholly sustainable portfolio of payment models to include value-based reimbursement.
Perform other related duties and responsibilities as required or as directed by the Savas Healthcare CEO.
Adhere to applicable company policies, procedures, and protocols.
All other duties as assigned.
Required Qualifications And Experience
Board Certified MD or DO is required preferably in a primary care specialty.
10 years of experience in clinical practice with preference for experience in a large complex academic health system environment.
Management experience in an accountable care organization, clinically integrated network, independent physician association and/or physician-hospital organization preferred.
Experience in quality improvement methodologies especially Lean and The Model for Improvement.
Experience building working partnerships with clinical and non-clinical stakeholders.
Experience in population management that includes development of care management programs, use of disease registries, cost reduction and quality improvement initiatives, care management workflow, effective use of population management technology applications.
Familiarity with the deployment of evidence-based medicine and clinical best practices
Additional Skills
Acknowledged clinical leadership within specialty and system overall. Executive presence and the ability to navigate a complex medical environment.
Excellent communication skills, both oral and written.
Ability to negotiate and/or communicate with a wide variety of people. The ideal candidate will have a track record of driving change through influence and a successful track record of bridging relationships with academic and community based physicians.
Experience in communicating effectively with colleagues and building consensus with internal and external stakeholders.
Demonstrated track record in forging partnerships cross-institutionally and the ability to promote open communication and foster trust.
Strong understanding of clinical quality programs and continuous quality improvement methods in the ambulatory and inpatient settings.
Familiarity with requirements of the Joint Commission, HRSA, NCQA and other applicable Quality and Regulatory organizations.
Exposure to the work necessary to advance Savas Healthcare as a business platform to work with payers and employers.
Solid understanding of data analytics (creation, manipulation, and interpretation) and the ability to translate strategic priorities into operational reality; align communications, accountabilities, resource capabilities, internal processes and ongoing measurement systems to ensure that strategic priorities yield measurable and sustainable results.
Declaration
Conditions: The physical demands described below are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Similarly, the work environment characteristics described are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Physical Demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, use hands to manipulate equipment, and to talk and hear. The employee is required to stand, walk, reach with hands and arms, and stoop, kneel, or crouch. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 75 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, and ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment: The noise level in the work environment is high to moderate.
Disclaimer: The above statements reflect the general details considered necessary to decide the principal functions of the job identified and shall not be construed as a detailed description of all work requirements that may be inherent in the job. Job incumbents are expected to perform other duties necessary for the effective operation of the position, facility, or the business. The position purpose, principal accountabilities, essential functions, minimum qualifications and the requirements listed in this job description are representative only and are not exhaustive of the tasks that a Team Member may be required to perform. Savas Health reserves the right to revise this job description at any time, and to require Team Members to perform other tasks as circumstances or conditions of its business considerations or work environment change.
Equal Opportunity Employer: Savas Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We encourage applications from all individuals regardless of race, religion, color, sex, pregnancy, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, ancestry, age, marital status, physical or mental disability or any other protected class, political affiliation or belief.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: From $500,000.00 per year
Benefits:
401(k)
Dental insurance
Employee assistance program
Employee discount
Flexible spending account
Health insurance
Health savings account
Paid time off
Vision insurance
Schedule:
Monday to Friday
Work Location: Hybrid
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Company Description
Excellent benefits, no weekends, no On-Call. Monday thru Friday 8-5. We offer Health, Dental, and Vision (PPO-90% paid by employer), 3 weeks vacation (upon hire), we also close for 2 weeks during the holidays (paid time off). Your first year you will have 5 weeks off. Plus all our holidays and sick time. It’s a very generous benefit package.
Excellent benefits, no weekends, no On-Call. Monday thru Friday 8-5. We offer Health, Dental, and Vision (PPO-90% paid by employer), 3 weeks vacation (upon hire), we also close for 2 weeks during the holidays (paid time off). Your first year you will have 5 weeks off. Plus all our holidays and sick time. It’s a very generous benefit package.
Seniority level
Executive
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Health Care Provider
Industries
Hospitals and Health Care
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