Medical Director Physician Engagement and CDQI - Manhattan, NY

Background :

Mount Sinai is one of the largest U.S. health systems with a strong reputation for quality of care and research / education.

We have 40,000 employees working together to provide billions of dollars in high-quality care each year for millions of patients.

We are accelerating a transition to a business model focused on population health management our goal is to keep entire communities healthy and out of the hospital.

Mount Sinai Health Partners (MSHP) is the team driving this transformation within Mount Sinai. The team includes 400+ employees with clinical, contracting, finance, IT, analytics, operations, and product development expertise.

MSHP is a fast growing business unit within Mount Sinai and is looking for team members who :

Are comfortable "playing up" and "playing down" as needed to accomplish business objectives

• Work productively amidst ambiguity
• Thrive in fast-paced work environments
• Seek to improve the status quo

Role Summary :

MSHP seeks a Medical Director (MD), Physician Engagement and CDQI, who will (1) be responsible for driving key population health goals including access, quality, utilization and accurate risk adjustment with a group of practices and (2) close partnership with the CDQI Director to drive accurate risk adjustment throughout the system.

This Medical Director must be effective at influencing physicians, medical director and other key practice staff to drive value based care success.

He / she will support the establishing and hardwiring processes to drive excellence in efficiency of care, quality and accurate risk adjustment for all populations served, especially our patients covered under a Medicare arrangement (MSSP or MA).

The MD will report to Vice President, Clinical Integration and Population Health with shared accountability to Director, CDQI.

Responsibilities / Expectations :

Effective influencer for primary care clinical and administrative leadership throughout MSHS to drive VBC performance, with a special focus on driving accurate risk adjustment.

o Establish a peer level credibility with physicians and medical directors across Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS).

o Develop productive working relationships with practice managers / directors and other practice administrative staff across MSHS.

• Must serve as the Population Health Practice Optimization Lead (working collaboratively with a Population Health Manager (PHM)) for 6-10 high priority primary care / multispecialty practices.
• Present and facilitate pod and practice health meetings.
• Help administer the Value-Based care bonus program for PCPs (IM, FP and Geriatrics)
• As appropriate, directly respond to provider / administrator / practice requests from meetings and ad-hoc communications
• Ideally, stay clinically active primary care or another setting.
• Other duties, as assigned

Position Description :

• Collaborate with colleagues as an integral part of a health system
• Benefit from the education, research, and clinical program of Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, one of the top ranked schools nationally
• Significant opportunities for career development
• Dedicated support staff

Qualifications :

Candidate Education, Experience and Skills Requirements and Preferences

Candidate Requirements :

• MD or DO degree, Internal medicine, Family medicine or Geriatrics strong preferred, board certification required.
• Value based care knowledge and experience
• Demonstrated experience in successfully driving population health initiatives
• Track record and experience in implementing CDQI initiatives and successfully engaging physicians and practice
• Track record of a skillful presenter and influencer is required
• Demonstrated ability to see the forest, leaves and trees at same time and move initiatives forward
• Accomplishment in rapidly establishing clinical, population health and operational credibility with key practice stakeholders
• Experience and passion for primary care excellence is required

Candidate Strong Preferences :

• Superior work ethic and persistence to achieve challenging goals
• Organized and accountable meticulous and detail-oriented; consistently meets timelines and objectives.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Flexible team player able to collaborate well with diverse set of team members. Participate and promote clinical and interdisciplinary team member collaboration to common goals.
• Experience in clinical transformation : developing and implementing quality programs, care pathways, clinical guidelines and best clinical and operational practices in primary care?
• Based on experience and demonstrated skill set, could consider Senior Medical Director level and associated compensation

Compensation range from 230K-260K (when scaled to 1 FTE) (not including bonuses / incentive compensation or benefits)

Salary Disclosure Information :

Mount Sinai Health System provides a salary range to comply with the New York City law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements.

Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, specialties, historical productivity, historical collections, and hospital / community need.

As such, an actual salary may fall closer to one or the other end of the range, and in certain circumstances, may wind up being outside of the listed salary range.

The salary range listed is for full-time employment and does not include bonuses / incentive compensation or benefits.

About the Mount Sinai Health System :

The Mount Sinai Health System is New York City's largest academic medical system, encompassing eight hospitals, a leading medical school, and a vast network of ambulatory practices throughout the greater New York region.

Mount Sinai advances medicine and health through unrivaled education and translational research and discovery to deliver care that is the safest, highest-quality, most accessible and equitable, and the best value of any health system in the nation.

• The Health System includes approximately 7,300 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture ambulatory surgery centers;
• more than 415 ambulatory practices throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida;

and more than 30 affiliated community health centers.

The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.