[Hiring] Ambassador Medical Director - Emergency Medicine @MedAmerica

Role Description

Join the Physician Partnership Where You Can Increase Your Impact. Vituity’s ownership model provides autonomy, local control, and a national system of support, so you can focus your attention where you want it to be – on your patients.

The Opportunity:

• Communicate and champion Vituity’s purpose, mission, vision, values, culture of brilliance, and strategy, ensuring widespread understanding and alignment.
• Assure compliance with all Vituity requirements and policies and communicate those requirements to all Vituity providers.
• Monitor current and future healthcare and economic trends; assess their potential impact on the practice and local geographic region.
• Develop, implement, and monitor an annual practice management plan that includes goals and objectives to continually meet expectations and provide value to patients, clients, providers, and the local community.
• Lead local site administrative management team by identifying team members and aligning their responsibilities to achieve practice goals.
• Possess a full understanding of hospital expectations and ensure compliance with contract terms.
• Strategize and execute a comprehensive practice management plan that sets clear goals and objectives, continuously surpassing expectations and delivering value.
• Spearhead the local site's administrative management team, meticulously working with team members and aligning their responsibilities to drive achievement of practice goals.
• Demonstrate unwavering mastery of Vituity policies and fiduciary obligations, ensuring strict adherence from all providers.
• Exemplify Vituity’s Partnership Principles by fostering open communication and transparent decision-making.
• Fully grasp the strategy and initiatives to convey them effectively to Partners.
• Act as a Vituity advocate, conveying the message as an owner, not just a translator.
• Monitor operational and quality metrics, implementing Vituity initiatives and operations to continually improve performance.
• Continuously assess and improve operational processes, leveraging technology and best practices to streamline workflows and increase efficiency.
• Introduce new partners to key Vituity departments.
• Interact with RD on a weekly basis, responding to e-mails and calls in a timely manner, and attending meetings directed by RD.
• Provide a warm handoff to the incoming MD after start-up.
• Develop, foster, and maintain productive and collaborative working relationships with hospital leadership, nursing staff, and other healthcare team members.
• Ensure practice is appropriately represented and demonstrates their value through leadership roles (as applicable).
• Monitor site financial performance and develop an understanding of the yearly budget, financial performance measures, and billing/reimbursement issues.
• Improve billing practice statistics to optimize reimbursement for the practice.
• Maintain awareness and interactions with payers such as significant IPA’s, Medical Groups, Foundations, ACO’s associated with the hospital/health system.
• Execute efficient recruitment, onboarding, and training processes for new providers.
• Provide learning and development opportunities and mentoring to providers and staff.
• Evaluate the performance of physicians and Advanced Providers in compliance with Vituity policies and guidelines.
• Monitor physician competencies with progressive improvement using appropriate metrics.
• Help identify and mentor the permanent Medical Director for the site.
• Utilize schedule templates to create start-up schedules.
• Ensure initial pay rates are entered in Shift Admin prior to the first payroll run.
• Collaborate with Vituity and Site support teams to ensure timely email access, password issues, and EMR education setup.
• Be available to be on site as needed and as requested.
• Support co-designing, building, and executing strategies, policies, and practices that cultivate equity, inclusion, and fair opportunity.
• Facilitate integration of practice lines in startups and existing contract sites, as directed.
• Model Vituity’s Partnership Principles through fostering open communication and transparency of decisions.

Qualifications

• Licensed physician as a Medical Doctor (M.D.) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.) degree from an accredited medical school and completion of residency through an accredited residency program with specialty appropriate to PL serving required.
• Maintain membership and privileges on Hospital’s medical staff and comply with and abide by the bylaws, rules and regulations, and the policies and procedures of Hospital’s medical staff where services are being provided required.
• Superior clinical skills to serve as a role model by setting high standards required.
• Operations administrative experience and aptitude is helpful to create a bridge between hospital administration and physicians, with strong interpersonal and leadership skills required.
• Able to adapt quickly to new environments, motivate physicians, clinical, and non-clinical employees.
• Interest in interpreting complex financial data and understanding finance and accounting as they relate to practice management.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Ability to establish effective relationships quickly with both clients and nonclients.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, effective negotiation skills, and able to resolve disputes required.
• Willing to travel required.

Benefits

• Superior Health Plan Options
• Dental, Vision, HSA, life and AD&D coverage, and more
• Partnership models allow a K-1 status pay structure, allowing high tax deductions
• Extraordinary 401K Plan with high tax reduction and faster balance growth
• Eligible to receive an Annual Profit Distribution/yearly cash bonus
• EAP and travel assistance included
• Student loan refinancing discounts
• Purpose-driven culture focused on improving the lives of our patients, communities, and employees

Company Description

Vituity is a 100% physician-owned partnership and is led by frontline physicians that are all equitable owners. We foster a culture that values team accomplishments more than individual achievements, an approach we call “culture of brilliance.” Together, we leverage our strengths and experiences to make a positive impact in our local communities.