[Hiring] Medical Executive @Cigna Healthcare

Role Description

The Medical Executive, Network & Provider Relations serves as a strategic physician leader responsible for improving healthcare affordability and network performance through provider engagement, clinical leadership, value-based care execution, and data-informed collaboration across assigned markets and provider organizations.

This role leverages clinical expertise, market intelligence, trusted provider relationships, and performance insights to influence care delivery, reduce avoidable cost and variation, support network strategy, and strengthen collaboration between Cigna Healthcare and the provider community.

Primary Responsibilities

• Affordability & Network Performance Leadership
  • Serve as a physician leader supporting affordability, trend, and network performance objectives within assigned markets and provider relationships.
  • Use provider relationships, market intelligence, and performance data to identify opportunities to improve cost, quality, utilization, access, and overall network performance.
  • Partner with provider organizations to address clinical and operational drivers of healthcare trend, unnecessary variation, and avoidable cost.
  • Support implementation of evidence-based initiatives that improve value, strengthen outcomes, and promote appropriate site-of-care, specialty, and referral management strategies.
  • Collaborate with analytics, actuarial, network, finance, and clinical partners to evaluate opportunities, define interventions, and assess performance improvement.
  • Provide clinical leadership in addressing emerging affordability risks, provider performance opportunities, and strategic network priorities.
• Provider Engagement & Influence
  • Develop and maintain trusted executive-level relationships with health systems, physician organizations, specialty groups, and independent providers.
  • Serve as a credible clinical advisor and strategic partner to provider leadership on performance improvement, collaboration, and network priorities.
  • Facilitate productive dialogue regarding affordability opportunities, provider performance, value-based care, quality outcomes, and clinical collaboration.
  • Gather provider insight and market intelligence to inform internal decision-making, escalation management, and strategic planning.
  • Support resolution of complex provider concerns, escalations, and relationship opportunities while maintaining alignment with organizational goals.
• Value-Based Care & Clinical Transformation
  • Support growth, execution, and optimization of value-based care initiatives and provider performance programs.
  • Collaborate with providers, contracting teams, and clinical partners to improve quality, affordability, patient outcomes, and provider accountability.
  • Promote provider adoption of care delivery models and population health strategies that support improved performance and customer value.
  • Identify barriers to provider success and help connect providers with appropriate clinical, operational, and analytic resources.
• Network Strategy Support
  • Provide clinical consultation and market insight for network strategy, provider partnerships, and contracting activities.
  • Assist in evaluating provider organizations, market opportunities, strategic partnerships, and performance improvement opportunities.
  • Support initiatives designed to strengthen network competitiveness, provider collaboration, and clinical alignment.
  • Identify opportunities to enhance provider alignment with organizational goals and market-specific priorities.

Qualifications

• MD or DO degree.
• Active, unrestricted medical license.
• Board certification in an ABMS-recognized specialty.
• Minimum 5 years of clinical practice experience.
• Minimum 3 years of healthcare leadership, payer, network, provider relations, or value-based care experience.
• Demonstrated ability to influence physician leaders, provider executives, and cross-functional partners.
• Strong understanding of healthcare economics, clinical quality, utilization, population health, and performance improvement.
• Exceptional communication, presentation, relationship-building, and executive presence skills.
• Ability to operate effectively in a highly matrixed, fast-paced, and evolving environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with provider network management, contracting support, or provider performance strategy.
• Experience with value-based care arrangements, quality improvement, or population health operations.
• Experience with healthcare affordability initiatives, trend management, analytics, or financial performance improvement.
• MBA, MHA, MPH, or equivalent business experience or training.
• Experience leading cross-functional projects, peer learning forums, or team-based operating model initiatives.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health-related benefits including medical, vision, dental, and well-being and behavioral health programs.
• 401(k) plan.
• Company paid life insurance.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• A minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year.
• Paid holidays and leaves of absence.