[Hiring] Market Medical Director @UnitedHealth Group

Role Description

For those who want to invent the future of health care, here's your opportunity. We're going beyond basic care to health programs integrated across the entire continuum of care. Join us in making healthcare work better for everyone through people-led, responsible AI while Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Optum is a clinician-led care organization working to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. In this role, you will bring physician leadership to a home-based, value-oriented care model serving complex and vulnerable populations. You will connect national clinical strategy with local execution, help advanced practice clinicians practice safely and confidently at the top of license, and translate clinical insight into measurable improvements in quality, affordability, utilization, documentation, and member experience.

The Care at Home Market Medical Director is a market-facing physician executive accountable for the quality and timeliness of clinical oversight, prioritization, physician judgment, workforce-development actions, intervention design, and escalation. The role partners closely with market leadership and Clinical Operations. It is not the owner of day-to-day staffing, scheduling, routine productivity management, or Human Resources processes.

You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

Qualifications

• Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.).
• Active, unrestricted medical license and ability to obtain additional state licenses as required for assigned market coverage.
• Current board certification through an ABMS or AOA member board in Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, Geriatric Medicine, or another relevant specialty.
• 5+ years of post-residency clinical practice experience.
• Experience caring for medically complex adults, older adults, or patients with multiple chronic conditions.
• Demonstrated ability to apply evidence-based medicine, clinical judgment, and population-health principles to complex care decisions.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate with clinical and non-clinical audiences, influence across a matrixed organization, and convert data into clear decisions and action plans.
• Ability to travel 10-15%.
• Driver’s License and access to reliable transportation.

Requirements

• Provide physician-executive leadership for safe, consistent execution of the Care at Home clinical model across advanced practice clinician-led and interdisciplinary teams.
• Set market expectations for clinical readiness, onboarding milestones, competency validation, clinical escalation, and reassessment; participate in advanced practice clinician interviews and provide formal clinical hiring recommendations.
• Build and validate clinician capability through complex case consultation, structured mentoring, clinical office hours, case-based coaching, calibration, onboarding readiness reviews, and field observation or ride-alongs when appropriate.
• Own the clinical purpose of the weekly interdisciplinary care team forum; apply national selection criteria and local risk signals to select or approve patient cases; define clinical questions and time allocation; lead substantive discussion; and ensure decisions conclude with documented rationale, a single owner, due date, completion evidence, and escalation threshold.
• Interpret market quality, utilization, affordability, pharmacy, documentation, coding, engagement, and workforce signals and translate them into focused physician-led interventions.
• Prioritize action on avoidable emergency department, inpatient, skilled nursing facility, and readmission patterns; medication opportunities; care gaps; and high-risk or clinically complex cohorts.
• Set clinical priorities for chart review, documentation quality, prescribing safety, medication optimization, deprescribing, guideline-directed therapy, palliative care, behavioral health, transitions of care, and model fidelity.
• Identify unwarranted clinical variation, safety risk, or care-model drift; initiate focused clinical review, recommend development or remediation, and escalate barriers through defined governance pathways.
• Serve as the Care at Home physician leader in designated joint operating committees, payer and provider clinical forums, and executive discussions; build trusted relationships with health plan CMOs, QFO partners, and provider medical leaders; and ensure external commitments translate into documented decisions, owners, due dates, success measures, and closed-loop follow-through.
• Partner with market leaders on clinical priorities and business tradeoffs, and with Clinical Operations on workflow adoption, action tracking, staffing and operating barriers, and sustained execution.
• Contribute field-informed physician expertise to defined enterprise initiatives, pilots, technology, analytics, learning, quality, pharmacy, affordability, and care-model evolution only when the sponsor, objective, Medical Director role, deliverable, decision right, expected effort, timeline, and endpoint are clear, while protecting primary market-facing capacity.
• Use performance evidence to determine whether clinical interventions should continue, change, spread, or stop.
• Require closed-loop documentation of clinical issues, accountable owners, actions, due dates, review points, decisions, and escalation status; close the loop with the originating stakeholder.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package.
• Incentive and recognition programs.
• Equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements).
• Salary range: $279,500 - $440,500 annually based on full-time employment.

Company Description

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and help make the health system work better for everyone. Together, we are shaping the future of healthcare by harnessing technology and innovation to make care simpler to navigate, more affordable and more connected for the people we serve. We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels welcomed, valued, heard and respected, empowering people to bring their authentic selves to work and strengthening our collective impact through diverse talents, backgrounds, experiences and perspectives.