Primary Care Physician

ChenMed•Ashburn, VA

11d•Onsite

About The Position

ChenMed is a physician-led, mission-driven primary care organization focused on providing affordable, high-quality care to seniors. The Primary Care Physician (PCP) delivers and coordinates care for older adults with acute and complex chronic conditions, taking accountability for patient outcomes, clinical quality, and cost-effectiveness for a panel of up to 450 patients. The PCP builds trusting relationships, coaches patients toward health goals, and simplifies care plans to support actionable behavior change. This outcomes-focused, value-based role includes working toward patient admission, appointment-volume, patient-experience, clinical-gap-closure, and medical-cost measures. The PCP champions a positive culture, works independently and collaboratively with healthcare professionals, and partners with managers and medical directors on compliance, quality, risk management, and company goals. The PCP leads a care team and coordinates with transitional-care resources for patients who cannot come to the office. The physician also helps manage the center, covers for other providers as needed, participates in patient and provider recruiting, and supervises or collaborates with an Advanced Practice Practitioner while remaining accountable for that practitioner’s actions. The role requires local travel as applicable, national travel for initial training and occasional recruiting or training, and flexibility to work evenings, weekends, or holidays as needed. The listed base salary range is $221,141–$315,915; compensation may vary based on relevant factors, and the position may be eligible for bonuses or commissions. ChenMed describes its compensation, comprehensive benefits, career development, advancement opportunities, and work-life balance as employee offerings.

Requirements

MD or DO degree in Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, Geriatrics, or a similar specialty.
Must be able to obtain a state medical license or already hold a current, active license for the state(s) where the physician will work.
Board eligibility in Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, Geriatrics, or a similar specialty is required.
Current DEA number for Schedule II–V controlled substances.
Basic Life Support (BLS) certification from the American Heart Association or American Red Cross within the first 90 days of employment.
Fluency in written and spoken English.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, and other word-processing, spreadsheet, database, email, and presentation software used by the company.
Ability and willingness to travel locally as needed in the market, nationally for two weeks of initial training, and occasionally regionally or nationally for recruiting or training.
Ability to exercise independent judgment.
Flexibility to work evenings, weekends, and/or holidays as needed.

Nice To Haves

Board certification in Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, Geriatrics, or a similar specialty is preferred.
Once board certified, maintain specialty board certification through required MOC, CME, and/or board examinations.
Fluency in additional languages may be required for jobs at some centers and will be specified at application.

Responsibilities

Provide independent care for older adult patients with acute and chronic illnesses, including assessment, diagnosis, treatment, management, education, health promotion, care coordination, and documentation.
Take accountability for patient care and outcomes, seek specialist consultation when appropriate, and remain involved in the patient’s detailed care.
Engage with hospitalists whenever a patient in the PCP’s panel is hospitalized.
Lead the care team, including the medical assistant/care promoter, care facilitator, and care coordinator for patients able to come to the office.
Coordinate care for patients unable to visit the office, working with the transitional-care team, case managers, acute and transitional-care physicians, and other available resources.
Work toward established patient-care, appointment-volume, patient-experience, clinical-gap-closure, and medical-cost goals with center and market leadership and care teams.
Help champion a positive center culture of love, accountability, and passion.
Work independently and collaboratively with other healthcare professionals and managers or medical directors to support compliance, risk and quality management, clinical meetings, and patient health and company goals.
Adhere to departmental goals, performance standards, regulatory requirements, quality-of-care requirements, and policies and procedures.
Help manage the center and cover for other providers when needed.
Participate as needed in recruiting patients for the center and additional providers for the company.
Supervise, collaborate with, participate with, or work under a practice or collaborative agreement with an Advanced Practice Practitioner, while remaining accountable for the practitioner’s actions.
Remain accessible to patients, including being available for walk-in visits and responding to calls and messages in a timely manner.
Keep current with evidence-based medicine and clinical, nutritional, and lifestyle-based interventions; work with care teams to improve quality and practice operations.
Perform other duties as assigned or modified at the manager’s discretion.