Physician - Primary Care

Ochsner Health•Marrero, LA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Ochsner Health is committed to serving, healing, leading, educating, and innovating, believing that every achievement and patient helped is due to dedicated employees. At Ochsner, every role contributes to making a difference. An Ochsner Staff Physician will provide and coordinate patient care in cooperation with other clinical staff, adhering to Ochsner’s core values: Patients First, Integrity, Compassion, Inclusivity, Teamwork, and Excellence. The position requires performing essential duties satisfactorily, with reasonable accommodations available for qualified individuals with disabilities. This job description summarizes primary duties and responsibilities and is subject to change. Ochsner Health is the leading not-for-profit healthcare provider in the Gulf South, operating 46 hospitals and over 370 health and urgent care centers. It has been recognized as the No. 1 hospital in Louisiana by U.S. News & World Report for 12 consecutive years, and Ochsner Children’s as the No. 1 hospital for kids in Louisiana for three consecutive years. In 2023, Ochsner Health served over 1.5 million people from across the nation and 65 countries, with a workforce of more than 38,000 team members and over 4,700 employed and affiliated physicians. Ochsner Health is an Employer of Choice, recognized on Newsweek's list of America's Greatest Workplaces for Diversity of 2024, Becker's Healthcare's 150 Top Places to Work in Healthcare, and awarded Culture Awards for Purpose and Values and Healthcare Industry by Top Workplace. It was ranked a 2023 Top Workplace in the USA, awarded Top Work Places 2023 for six consecutive years by The Times-Picayune, earned 2022-2023 Great Place to Work Certification™, and named to Newsweek's America's Greatest Workplaces for Parents and Families 2023.

Requirements

Board certified or eligible for certification in physician’s primary specialty
Licensed Practicing Provider MD/DO
Credentialed and willing to maintain clinical practice

Responsibilities

Examine the health of a patient to help make proper diagnosis of clinical conditions and prescribing medication, treatments, and follow-up care as required.
Prescribes pharmaceuticals, other medications, and treatment regimens to treat identified and documented medical conditions
Provide care directly and indirectly by working with other members of an interdisciplinary team to formulate treatment plans.
Timely record patient encounters in Electronic Health Record
Request further medical evaluations and make referrals, as necessary.
Understand and commit to the highest standards of professionalism; willingness to hold others to those standards.
Commit to collaboration with all members of the department to provide quality patient care.
Ensure accurate coding of all patient visits.
Comply with policies, procedures, bylaws, processes of privileging/credentialing, and standards of care that are conducive to the provision of high-quality medical services consistent with accreditation standards, state and federal licensure or regulations, Medicare, Medicaid, and other regulations, guidelines, requirements, and statutes as applicable.
Remains knowledgeable on current federal, state and local laws, accreditation standards or regulatory agency requirements that apply to the assigned area of responsibility and ensures compliance with all such laws, regulations and standards.