CareBridge Advance Practice Provider, Nurse Practitioner

Elevance Health•Indianapolis, IN

13d•Remote

About The Position

CareBridge Health is seeking a Nurse Practitioner to provide primary and urgent health care via telephone and tele-video modalities to patients receiving home and community-based services. This role involves developing and implementing clinical plans of care for adult patients with chronic and complex conditions, gathering history, performing physical exams, and developing treatment plans aligned with patient goals. The Nurse Practitioner will identify and close gaps in care, address physical and psychosocial needs, educate patients and families, and coordinate care with other healthcare providers. This is a virtual, full-time role with rotating on-call responsibilities.

Requirements

Requires an MS in Nursing.
Requires an active national NP certification.
Requires valid, current, active and unrestricted Family or Adult Nurse Practitioner (NP) license in the state of Indiana.
Requires valid, current, active, RN license.
Experience working with Electronic Medical Records (EMR) required.
Requires 2+ years of experience in managing complex care cases.

Nice To Haves

Active RN Compact license.
Experience in managing complex care cases for developmental disabilities and chronically ill patients strongly preferred.
Possession of DEA registration or eligibility preferred.
Bilingual in Spanish is highly preferred
Active Medicaid number in the state of Indiana is highly preferred.

Responsibilities

Provides primary and urgent health care via telephone and tele video modalities to patients who receive home and community-based services through state Medicaid programs, dual eligible members and other membership as assigned by our MCO partners.
Develops and implements clinical plans of care for adult patients facing chronic and complex conditions (e.g., co-morbid medical and mental health diagnoses, limited personal resources, chronic medical conditions.).
Gathers history and physical exam and diagnostics as needed, and then develops and implements treatment plans given the patient’s goals of care and current conditions.
Identifies and closes gaps in care.
Meets the patient’s and family’s physical and psychosocial needs with support and input from the company’s inter-disciplinary team.
Educates patients and families about medication usage, side effects, illness progression, diet and nutrition, medical adherence and crisis anticipation and prevention.
Maintains contact with other clinical team members, patients’ other physicians and patients’ other medical providers to coordinate optimal care and resources for the patient and his or her family in a timely basis and consistent with state regulations and company health standards and policy.
Maintains patient medical records and medical documentation consistent with state regulations and company standards and policy.
Participates in continuing education as required by state and certifying body.
Prescribes medication as permitted by state prescribing authority.