Medical Director, Extended Care
About The Position
The Regional Medical Director, Extended Care is a senior physician leader responsible for the clinical, operational, and strategic performance of an assigned team. The role provides leadership across multiple care teams, provider teams, and interdisciplinary clinical functions to support exceptional patient outcomes within a value-based care model. It translates enterprise strategy into execution while ensuring clinical excellence, regulatory compliance, and sustained provider performance. In partnership with medical services and support teams, the Regional Medical Director is accountable for quality outcomes, total cost of care performance, utilization management, provider engagement, and clinical excellence across multiple teams. The role advances population health strategies, supports provider performance, and ensures regional regulatory and quality compliance. CareMore’s model emphasizes population health, proactive care coordination, and high-risk member management, so this position focuses on outcomes, prevention, and reducing avoidable utilization. It may lead multiple physician leaders, in addition to individual clinicians.
Responsibilities
- Provide physician leadership across multiple clinics, markets, teams, or regions.
- Establish clinical standards, workflows, and evidence-based care practices, and ensure consistency in care delivery across accountable teams.
- Lead regional medical strategy aligned with enterprise goals and serve as the senior physician escalation point for clinical issues.
- Lead and develop physician leaders, advanced practice providers, and clinical leaders; conduct performance management, coaching, and development planning.
- Support succession planning and physician leadership pipeline development; partner with Talent Acquisition on provider hiring and workforce planning; lead physician engagement and retention initiatives.
- Own regional performance for HEDIS, STAR ratings, RAF/risk adjustment, readmission reduction, emergency department utilization, inpatient admissions, length of stay, and total cost of care.
- Lead interventions for high-risk and chronic populations and drive medical expense improvement initiatives in partnership with care management and utilization management leadership.
- Support market growth strategy and geographic expansion; partner with network, pharmacy, case management, and utilization management teams.
- Lead operational change initiatives, support workflow redesign and transformation, and provide clinical leadership during restructures, new market launches, and regional transitions.
- Manage clinical cost performance across the assigned region; monitor provider productivity and panel performance; identify utilization and cost leakage trends; support budget and staffing decisions; and drive margin improvement through clinical interventions.
- Build strategic relationships with health plan partners, engage community providers and referral networks, represent CareMore in market-level clinical partnerships, support provider relations and physician network engagement, and serve as a physician-facing leader in community and payer meetings.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
