[Hiring] Medical Director of Telehealth @Abode Care Partners

Role Description

In this full-time physician leadership role, reporting to the Chief Medical Officer, you will provide clinical and operational leadership for Abode Care Partners’ telehealth practice. You will help deliver high-quality, evidence-based virtual care to medically complex patients across multiple markets.

• Deliver direct patient care via telehealth while overseeing the program’s clinical workflows and the physicians and advanced practice providers (APPs) who deliver virtual care.
• Ensure telehealth services are clinically effective, compliant, scalable, and well-integrated with local care teams, home health partners, and facility-based teams.
• Serve as a collaborating physician for nurse practitioners, as permitted by applicable state law and company policy.
• Participate in the clinical call rotation.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality, patient-centered virtual primary and complex care across various settings.
• Lead the day-to-day clinical operations of the telehealth practice.
• Support transitional and post-acute care for recently hospitalized patients.
• Partner with home health agencies, nursing teams, care managers, and local clinical teams.
• Serve as a collaborating physician for nurse practitioners and physician assistants.
• Participate in the clinical call rotation to support timely decision-making.
• Supervise, support, and mentor physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants.
• Review practitioner documentation, medical orders, prescribing patterns, and clinical decision-making.
• Help develop and refine telehealth protocols.
• Partner with regional and local clinical leaders to integrate telehealth with in-person care teams.
• Support quality outcomes, including care-pathway compliance and patient experience.
• Ensure compliance with applicable federal and state laws, payer requirements, and privacy standards.
• Identify opportunities to expand telehealth across current and new markets.

Qualifications

• Graduate of an accredited school of medicine; MD or DO required.
• Board certification in Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, or Geriatrics required.
• Seven or more years of clinical experience preferred.
• Two or more years of physician leadership, medical director, or administrative leadership experience preferred.
• Demonstrated experience performing telehealth visits required.
• Experience managing, supervising, or building a telehealth practice preferred.
• Experience caring for recently hospitalized, post-acute, home health, complex, frail, geriatric, homebound, or facility-based populations preferred.
• Active, unrestricted medical license required; existing Kentucky and Tennessee licenses preferred.
• Current DEA registration required, as applicable to assigned scope of practice.

Requirements

• Must meet applicable credentialing, privileging, payer enrollment, and state-specific telehealth requirements.
• Must be eligible and willing to serve as a collaborating physician for nurse practitioners and/or physician assistants.
• Strong clinical judgment and ability to manage complex patients in a virtual environment.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to build trust and rapport across telehealth encounters.
• Strong organizational, management, and provider-coaching skills.
• Commitment to quality, compliance, patient safety, and scalable care delivery.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits.
• Flexible work environment.
• Opportunities for professional development.