Physician - Powdersville, SC

About the position

The Primary Care Physician (PCP) plays a crucial role in a team-based care environment focused on delivering high-quality, value-based care to seniors. This position emphasizes a concierge experience, multidisciplinary services, and coordinated care, allowing PCPs to spend more time with patients and ensure better health outcomes. The PCP will work closely with a diverse care team and engage in various patient care activities, including evaluations, treatment, and coordination of services.

Responsibilities

• Evaluates and treats center patients in accordance with standards of care.
• Follows level of medical care and quality for patients and monitors care using available data and chart reviews.
• Assists in the coordination of patient services, including specialty referrals, hospital and SNF coordination, durable medical equipment, and home health care.
• Acts as an active participant and key source of medical expertise with the care team through daily huddles.
• Helps Regional Medical Director and Center Administrator in setting a tone of cooperation in practice by displaying a professional and approachable demeanor.
• Completes all medical record documentation in a timely manner working with a quality-based coder to optimize coding specificity.
• Follows policy and protocol defined by Clinical Leadership.
• Meets with RMD about quality of care, review of outcome data, policy, procedure and records issues.
• Participates in potential growth opportunities for new or existing services within the Center.
• Participates in the local primary care 'on-call' program of Partners in Primary Care as needed.
• Assures personal compliance with licensing, certification, and accrediting bodies.
• Spends 100% of time clinically focused on direct patient care, inclusive of patient-facing time and general administrative time.

Requirements

• Licensure requirements of the state of jurisdiction and ability to maintain licensure.
• Graduate of accredited MD or DO program of accredited university.
• Board Certification in Family Medicine, Internal Medicine or Geriatric Medicine with continued certification throughout employment.
• Minimum of two to five years directly applicable experience preferred.
• Excellent communication skills; written and verbal, with a high level of skill in interpersonal relationships and communications with colleagues/patients.
• Willingness and ability to learn/adapt to practice in a value-based care setting.
• Superior patient/customer service skills.
• Basic computer skills, including email and EMR.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience managing Medicare Advantage panel of patients with understanding of Best Practice in coordinated care environment in a value-based relationship environment.
• Knowledge of Medicare guidelines and coverage.
• Knowledge of HEDIS quality indicators.

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision benefits
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• Paid time off, including company and personal holidays
• Volunteer time off
• Paid parental and caregiver leave
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Life insurance
• Bonus incentive plan based on performance