[Hiring] Regional Director - Radiology @Vituity

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:

• Work with Medical Directors to review site performance, address problems, and adjust practices to achieve profitability.
• Accountable for ensuring all sites are solvent.
• Review monthly site performance reports and ensure problems are corrected.
• Take charge of or assist MDs in resolving issues with problem payers, AR, etc.
• Monitor site contributions and organization subsidies.
• Work with Vituity Practice Management staff and VP in negotiations of managed care contracts affecting sites in his/her region as needed.
• Manage debt forgiveness when applicable.
• Coordinate and lead the negotiation of contracts in the region and resolve issues with payers, managed care organizations, and the hospital.
• Operate a new site to budget.
• Know incentives and operationalize optimization, ensure contract terms are being met.
• Own start-ups, Year One, and Hot Spot calls.
• Increase in subsidy needs to be approved by COO.
• Accountable for site operational and quality performance.
• Aid each MD in the identification and correction of potential and/or existing operational or financial problems, including patient flow, coding, documentation, compliance, and productivity issues.
• Advise Medical Directors and site management team to ensure that all practice lines in the region provide the highest quality medical care.
• Know quality metrics for the site and system, ensure these are exceeded.
• Accountable for ensuring meaningful integration occurs.
• Engage in collaboratives, set the tone, hold MD and SMT accountable.
• Allocate Vituity Practice Management, Operations Consultants, and Regional Leads resources for region.
• Work collaboratively with Operations Consultants and Regional Leads on initiatives such as start-up calls and performance improvement initiatives.
• Act as the leader for the site in any Vituity collaboratives.
• Be proactive in maintaining oversight of all site metrics, incentives, and operational processes.
• Provide leadership for all partners and employees in region.
• Onboard and mentor Medical Directors and address any performance issues in a timely manner.
• Aid the MD in recruiting, onboarding, and acculturating new providers.
• Represent Vituity and impart information on new policies and procedures.
• Work clinically at struggling sites when appropriate and necessary.
• Commit to creating and demonstrating inclusivity within Vituity.
• Lead with integrity by recognizing the voices and ideas of individuals in their respective site or division.
• Ensure practices are following up on compliance requirements.
• Ensure the Medical Directors are signing off on timecards within due date.
• Support current and future Leadership development by participating in the Leadership Development Program.
• Represent Vituity and maintain relationships in their region.
• Maintain a strong C-suite relationship, ensure added value.
• Respond quickly to emails and calls.
• Represent Vituity to hospital administration and nursing; meet at least annually with them, but quarterly is preferred.
• Assure strong and positive relationships with medical staff.
• Serve as a member of Vituity Regional Director Operations Committee and on appropriate Vituity workgroups.
• Assume responsibility for any Medical Director in an emergency.
• Regularly engage, mentor, and assist fellow regional directors, medical directors, and site management team.
• Meet with Medical Directors on a frequent basis and monitor high risk and new sites monthly.
• Investigate and address Partner and provider complaints and issues in the Region.
• Participate in Divisional meetings with all practice lines.
• Provide regular organizational updates at the site level.
• Ensure appropriate onboarding, education, and training of MDs.
• Create and update training materials.
• Supply potential candidates to the leadership pipeline.
• Identify opportunities for new business, report them to leadership and/or business development for follow up.
• Participate in New Business opportunities outside your own region as needed.
• Manage the contract negotiation process with existing sites via Renewal Process.
• Ensure our contracting process is being followed.
• Facilitate integration of practice lines in startups and existing contract sites.
• Meet regularly with RDs from different service lines to share challenges and find solutions to increase contract stability.
• Joint accountability with the System Client champion to ensure good relationships.
• Monitor and intervene when appropriate on matters of client, medical staff, and hospital staff conflict/problems.
• Ensure that all Vituity physician providers understand their fiduciary obligations as Vituity partners.
• Model and communicate the cultural values, partnership principles, and patient-centered cause in interactions with patients, clients, providers, employees.
• Work with your peers to help and improve overall performance.
• Accountable for meeting organizational goals in their Region.
• Plan and contribute to content for Division wide meetings as assigned.
• Promote Vituity’s culture, mission, values, culture, and democratic principles.
• Ensure bi-directional communication to and from providers regarding organizational updates, policies and procedures, strategy, etc.
• Have regular interactions with key hospital administrators to maintain an open line of communication.
• Ensure site providers are actively participating on key hospital committees.
• Assist the site leadership in cultivating and maintaining key relationships when able and applicable with hospital board members, foundation members etc.
• Align with partnership strategy, initiatives and expectations and communicate to the site level.
• Have an in-depth understanding of the strategy and initiatives to own the message.
• Provide VPs feedback they receive related to these communications.

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 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.
• Physician Partnership status required.
• Operations management role experience, ex: Medical Director, Medical Group Manager, multi-site experience required.
• Medical group clinical work experience required.
• Must work a minimum average of 3 clinical shifts per month.
• Proactive and solution-minded.
• Superior clinical skills to serve as role model by setting high standards.
• Ability to interpret and understand complex financial data as related to practice management.
• Demonstrated strong interpersonal and leadership skills. Able to motivate physicians, clinical, and non-clinical employees.
• Dedicated team member and effective relationship builder.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Effective negotiation skills. Able to resolve disputes.
• Ability to travel.

Benefits

• Superior Health Plan Options.
• Dental, Vision, HSA, life and AD&D coverage, and more.
• Partnership models allows 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.
• Estimated annual base compensation of $275,000 – $900,000, depending on site, specialty, clinical volume, schedule, and experience.