Description
Oak Street Health is seeking an accomplished physician executive to serve as Chief Medical Officer for the Central region: Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee & Virginia.
This is a senior clinical leadership role with responsibility for clinical performance, patient safety, provider leadership, operational excellence and execution of Oak Street Health's value-based care model across the region.
The Chief Medical Officer will lead and develop Medical Directors and provider teams, ensuring consistent delivery of high-quality, patient-centered care while advancing performance across key measures including clinical outcomes, quality, hospital utilization, patient and clinician experience, documentation, medical cost and overall population health performance.
Key Responsibilities
Clinical Leadership & Regional Performance
- Provide senior clinical leadership across Oak Street Health's Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio markets.
- Establish clear expectations for clinical excellence and drive consistent execution of Oak Street Health's care model across the region.
- Lead performance across key clinical and operational measures, including quality, patient outcomes, hospital utilization, medical cost, documentation, patient safety, patient experience and clinician experience.
- Use clinical, operational and financial data to identify performance opportunities and translate insights into meaningful improvements in care delivery.
- Partner with Population Health, Quality, Care Management and operational leaders to improve outcomes for patients while effectively managing utilization and medical cost.
Medical Director & Provider Leadership
- Lead, coach and develop Medical Directors, creating strong clinical leadership and accountability across the region.
- Serve as a trusted advisor and escalation point for Medical Directors on complex clinical, provider and operational matters.
- Promoting patient safety by coaching medical directors to identify, report, and learn from safety events and near misses, and to build safe-care practices in every clinic.
Clinical Talent & Leadership Development
- Developing strong physician leaders is central to the continued success of Oak Street Health.
- Identifying and developing high-potential clinical leaders.
- Building leadership capability in problem solving, communication, coaching, conflict resolution and change leadership.
Value-Based Care & Population Health
- Champion Oak Street Health's value-based care model and ensure consistent execution across the region.
- Partner with Population Health and Quality teams to continuously strengthen the clinical care model.
- Drive performance related to quality, utilization, medical cost, documentation and appropriate reimbursement.
Strategic & Operational Partnership
- Serve as the senior clinical partner to the Division President, jointly advancing the clinical, operational and organizational performance of the region.
- Participate in regional business planning and provide the clinical perspective on operational priorities, resource allocation and performance opportunities.
Clinical Practice & Presence
- Maintain a meaningful clinical presence by providing primary care to Oak Street Health patients approximately one to two days per week.
- Remain visible and engaged with providers and clinic teams throughout the region.
Candidate Qualifications
- M.D. or D.O. degree.
- Must be board certified.
- Internal Medicine or Family Medicine preferred.
- Active clinical experience and willingness to maintain an ongoing primary care practice within Oak Street Health.
- Significant progressive clinical leadership experience, ideally including leadership at the Medical Director, Regional Medical Director, Chief Medical Officer or comparable level.
- Demonstrated experience leading and developing physicians, advanced practice providers and clinical leaders across multiple sites or markets.
- Experience managing a sizable provider organization, ideally including responsibility for 20 or more providers.
- Strong experience with value-based care, managed care and/or population health.
Preferred Qualifications
- Approximately 10+ years of progressive clinical and physician leadership experience.
- Recent outpatient primary care experience.
- Experience leading clinical operations across multiple clinics, markets or geographies.
- Deep experience caring for Medicare populations and managing clinical performance in a value-based environment.
Pay Range
- The typical pay range for this role is: $275,000 - $375,000