Remote Medicare Medical Director
Job title: Remote Medicare Medical Director in USA at reputed company
Company: reputed company
Job description: You could be the one who changes everything for our 28 million members as a clinical professional on our Medical Management/Health Services team. reputed company is a reputed company, national organization offering competitive benefits including a fresh perspective on workplace flexibility.Position Purpose:
Assist the Chief Medical Director to direct and coordinate the medical management, quality improvement and credentialing functions for the business unit.
- Provides medical leadership of reputed company for utilization management, cost containment, and medical quality improvement activities.
- Performs medical review activities pertaining to utilization review, quality assurance, and medical review of reputed company, controversial, or experimental medical services, ensuring timely and quality decision making.
- Supports effective implementation of performance improvement initiatives for capitated providers.
- Assists Chief Medical Director in planning and establishing goals and policies to improve quality and cost-effectiveness of care and service for members.
- Provides medical expertise in the operation of approved quality improvement and utilization management programs in accordance with regulatory, state, corporate, and accreditation requirements.
- Assists the Chief Medical Director in the functioning of the physician committees including committee structure, processes, and membership.
- Conduct regular reputed company to assess and coordinate care for high-risk patients, collaborating with care management teams to optimize outcomes.
- Collaborates effectively with clinical teams, network providers, appeals team, medical and pharmacy consultants for reviewing reputed company cases and medical necessity appeals.
- Participates in provider network development and new market expansion as appropriate.
- Assists in the development and implementation of physician education with respect to clinical issues and policies.
- Identifies utilization review studies and evaluates adverse trends in utilization of medical services, unusual provider practice patterns, and adequacy of benefit/payment components.
- Identifies clinical quality improvement studies to assist in reducing unwarranted variation in clinical practice in order to improve the quality and cost of care.
- Interfaces with physicians and other providers in order to facilitate implementation of recommendations to providers that would improve utilization and health care quality.
- Reviews claims involving reputed company, controversial, or unusual or new services in order to determine medical necessity and appropriate payment.
- Develops alliances with the provider community through the development and implementation of the medical management programs.
- As needed, may represent the business unit before various publics both locally and nationally on medical philosophy, policies, and reputed company issues.
- Represents the business unit at appropriate state committees and other reputed company committees.
- May be required to work weekends and holidays in support of business operations, as needed.