Senior Physician Job Description
Senior physician
provides direct clinical care to all patients assigned to Provider in accordance with applicable standards of care, FHC policies and procedures and Hospital policies and procedures, as applicable.
Senior Physician Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Leads and facilitates appropriate training of physicians, extenders, and physician office staff takes place with software and processes
Communicates, monitors, and prioritizes physician and physician office service requests and incident resolutions through the Division Service Desk and prioritizes workload
Leads as subject matter expert for broad set of applications used by physicians and office staff, increasing their ability to resolve issues independently
Enhances efficiency and productivity for physicians and office staff by effective use of specific applications
Proactively presents issues, decision points, to the appropriate groups or leadership
Communicates, monitors, and manages changes and updates for clinical systems associated with physicians and office staff
Leads as a member of appropriate implementation teams associated with physician oriented applications
Collaborates with IT&S in the definition and development of new or additional functionality to meet clinical needs, including testing of physician-related systems for facility-specific requirements
Responsible for assisting in the calculation of Physician Compensation consistent and compliant with contract language
Utilize research techniques to analyze and evaluate financial information and data
Senior Physician Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Senior Physician
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CPR, BLS, NCCPA, ACLS, PA, BS, BS/MS, CCS, CPC, PALS
Education for Senior Physician
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the senior physician job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Education, Business, Business/Administration, Medical, Healthcare, Finance, Accounting, Healthcare Administration, Marketing, Graduate
Skills for Senior Physician
Desired skills for senior physician include:
Managed Care and Medicare programs
Current practice standards in specialty
Imaging modalities
Relevant policies and regulations pertaining to sleep management
Applicable ICD-10
Applicable clinical criteria and relevant AIM policies pertaining to utilization review
Current practice standards in neurosurgery
Human anatomy
Physiology and pathophysiology
Relevant policies and regulations pertaining to medical oncology and imaging modalities
Desired experience for senior physician includes:
Experience in Pharmaceutical Medicine desirable but not (initially) essential
May be required to have experience and competency in performing specific tasks required by the specific department
Understanding of pertinent regulatory guidelines (HIPAA, JCAHO)
Monitors all physician employment agreements, contract provisions, updates and revisions as required
Assists and provides feedback to Operations, Development, and Accounting in determining appropriate administration of financial contracts
Monitors and assists with implementation of and adherence to operational/contract changes
Senior Physician Examples
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Senior Physician Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of senior physician. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for senior physician
- Assists in the preparation of departmental reports, interpretation and variance reporting
- Ensures that all processing and reporting deadlines are consistently achieved
- Assists in training of new/existing financial staff as needed
- Displays consistent behavior that enhances the public image of the organization as evidenced by professionalism in interactions with peers, subordinates, customers (hospital administration, practice, division and other)
- Maintains strictest confidentiality in the areas appropriate
- Serves as a professional resource for Hospital, Physician Services, Legal and Development
- Maintains open and responsive communication between Physician Services Operations, Legal, Development, Accounting, Hospital administration team, appropriate Practice personnel and employed physicians
- Actively supports physician service engagements including gap analyses, opportunity assessments, and implementation projects, both individually part of a team
- Participates in and supports stakeholder interviews and on-site observations to discover and collect salient insights, findings, and themes
- Oversees member data requests, acquisition, validation, and analysis to surface salient insights, findings, and themes
Qualifications for senior physician
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance or other related field required
- Recent Emergency Department or Urgent Care experience (within the last two years) preferred
- Strong background in finance and budget management
- Must have strong spreadsheet
- Must be able to manage multiple concurrent activities, and balance priorities to meet changing requirements and commitments
- Must be comfortable working with staff at all levels of the organization
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Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of senior physician. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for senior physician
- Develops and operationalizes the business strategy by developing actionable plans or programs that align to the business strategy and ensure integration of related functions
- Drive execution of business plans that meet or exceed KPI’s
- Provides input into negotiations of financial agreements (e.g., operational and execution) that have an impact on the business
- Provides advice to negotiators regarding financial agreements (e.g., contracts & technology) that have an impact on the business
- Collaborates with sales and consulting to drive plan at the local member or network level
- Monitors progress and/or team activities to ensure alignment with needs of multiple customer groups
- Communicates initiatives and translates strategic impact for the stakeholders through multiple vehicles to include dashboards and presentations
- Addresses and resolves incidents and requests
- Provides training of physicians, extenders, and physician office staff on IT&S software and processes
- Serves as subject matter expert for applications used by physicians and office staff, increasing their ability to resolve issues independently
Qualifications for senior physician
- Able to maintain confidentiality of highly sensitive financial and operational information
- Ability to develop both strategic and tactical recommendations to drive meaningful change
- Driving “detective” and “investigative journalist” disposition in discerning truths from perceptions
- Strong verbal, written, and graphical communication skills
- Highly developed emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills
- Expertise and experience using major ambulatory electronic medical record and practice management systems (EPIC, Cerner, Allscripts)
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Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of senior physician. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for senior physician
- Communicates present issues, decision points, to the appropriate groups or leadership
- Awareness and ability to support changes and updates for clinical systems associated with physicians and office staff
- Facilitates resolution of issues with system access to ensure providers and office staff have appropriate access
- Identifies potential trends in incidents
- Assists in managing the department knowledgebase
- Provides first level support as a customer support medical imaging subject matter expert to resolve incidents or fulfill requests received from customers or other division or facility service resources
- Builds strong relationships at the facility with core customer base for medical imaging applications
- Leads the targeted, strategic growth of Methodist Healthcare / San Antonio Division, through enhancing partnerships with the medical community in San Antonio and surrounding areas
- Develops and implements growth strategies and initiatives including managed care programs
- Serves as a catalyst for advancing new business ventures, partner affiliations and network/market expansion initiatives focused on growth and development
Qualifications for senior physician
- Proven experience developing and implementing operating plans, and analyzing financial and quality data
- Proven success working towards a goal(s)
- Provide medical affairs input to core labeling and pharmacovigilance documents for marketed products
- Ability to travel regionally approximately 50% of the time, occasional overnight trips typically within the state
- BS degree in Business, Finance or Accounting
- Finance experience with database knowledge
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Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a senior physician. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for senior physician
- Monitors and oversees the team training materials, tools and/or records
- Monitor and oversee new hire skill assessments, department specific orientation, and initial training for work tasks and functions
- Monitors and oversee continuing education and annual regulatory updates
- Based on the facilities strategic plan, supports the development of Medical Staff Development plans and targets that align with service line delivery goals
- Guides the development and deployment of a series of best practice processes for developing, marketing existing practices and more effectively ramping new practices
- Manages the execution of practice development plans within a market and/or region
- In support of service line development plans, ensures each practice has the facilities and equipment required in order to achieve stated service, quality and patient satisfaction targets
- Works with Practice Operations to address any clinical operations performance factors serving as barriers to the achievement of stated service line objectives
- Manages physician employment process, contracting, compensation and renewals in accordance with LifePoint standards and requirements
- Supports the engagement of specific practices within Clinically Integrated Networks
Qualifications for senior physician
- SQL, Excel VBA/Access, or database software experience
- Experience in a physician group setting
- Experience creating physician compensation models
- Understanding of physician contracts
- Experience with revenue generation in a physician/healthcare setting
- Strong accounting/database management background
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of senior physician. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for senior physician
- OmniPoint strategy – as we look to expand GS, Ortho and add new service line w/ GI, ENT, Cardio, etc need her to assist with coordinating OmniPoint operations w/ hospital strategy/service line integration leader
- FQHC – work with appropriate local FQHC and Market CEO/Leaders to organize and implement strategy for expansion
- Population Health/CIN – work with Pop Health team to coordinate efforts locally as it relates to the physician practices role in making the endeavor successful
- Supervises, leads and develops Market Directors and Market Managers to oversee day-to-day operations of the Group's employed physicians
- Develop and implement specific programs, products, and services to support the long-range strategic direction for the Group's employed physicians
- Assists with due diligence for the Group’s Employed Practice acquisitions, coordinates findings with Group, identifies operational requirements and opportunities to incorporate post acquisition
- Serves as communication liaison with Hospital Management, Group, Physician Services, and practices
- Oversees the coordination of operational start-up for new practices with Physician Practice Management staff
- Monitors all physician employment agreements for physicians and any contract provisions, updates, and revisions that address the responsibilities of Physician Practice Management
- Supervises the Group's practice management team and provides assistance in determining appropriate staffing needs
Qualifications for senior physician
- Experience or knowledge of Medicare reimbursement methodologies such as Resource Based Relative Value System (RBRVS), DRGs, Ambulatory Surgery Center Groupers
- Must have experience with employed physicians, community based-physicians, and in an ambulatory setting
- Experience in a Medical Foundation model is preferred
- Master’s degree and/or equivalent experience accepted
- Demonstrated ability to structuring legally compliant physician relationships
- Requires an understanding and experience with member consulting engagements, the contracting process, member supply chain & clinical needs, and supplier relations preferred