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 leads 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 advancing clinical excellence, regulatory compliance, and sustained provider performance. Working with medical services and support teams, the Medical Director is accountable for quality outcomes, total cost of care, 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, with a focus on outcomes, prevention, and reducing avoidable utilization. This is often a people-leadership role overseeing multiple physician leaders, rather than only individual clinicians.
Responsibilities
- Provide physician leadership across multiple clinics, markets, teams, or regions.
- Establish clinical standards, workflows, and evidence-based care practices, and ensure consistent care delivery across accountable teams.
- Lead regional medical strategy in alignment 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, and 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, drive medical expense improvement initiatives, and partner 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 and support workflow redesign and transformation efforts.
- Provide clinical leadership during restructures, new market launches, and regional transitions.
- Be accountable for clinical cost performance across the assigned region; monitor provider productivity and panel performance, identify utilization and cost-leakage trends, and develop and support budget and staffing decisions.
- 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
