Lead Primary Care Physician Opportunity with ChenMed for Outpatient Care in Columbia, South Carolina

About ChenMed

We are a privately held, physician-led organization and serve our communities through 115+ centers in over 15 states. At ChenMed, it isn’t just primary care, it’s transformative care™. Every day, we transform the lives of seniors and deliver better patient outcomes. Our value-based care model is designed for both our patients and our providers.

Our Physicians Enjoy:

• Guaranteed base salary (non RVU)
• Patient Panel Max of 450
• Commencement and performance bonus’
• Accelerated path to leadership and Zero Buy-in Partnership
• Parental Leave, PTO, 401K Match, and Relocation Allowance
• 5 CME days, $3500 Allowance

Practice Details:

• Monday-Friday schedule: no hospital call or rounding
• Dedicated in-house staff and specialists, including nursing services, case managers, social workers, cardiologists, podiatrists, and more.
• On-site lab and pharmacy
• J-1 Visa waivers and H-1B sponsorship available (for eligible candidates)

ChenMed, a physician-led and mission-driven, primary care organization, is currently one of the most successful full-risk Medicare Advantage providers in the nation and has a vision to be America’s leading primary care provider, transforming care of the neediest population. Our mission is to honor seniors with affordable VIP care that delivers better health. In order to achieve our vision and deliver our mission, we need the best primary care providers that are seeking to fulfill purpose and personal opportunity and join the ChenMed family.

The Primary Care Physician (PCP) in our organization demonstrates:

• Accountability for outcomes: The PCP demonstrates accountability for outcomes, strong clinical care, and cost-effectiveness for each patient in their panel of up to 450 patients. They understand that they can strongly influence the patient’s outcomes by building a trusting relationship and helping them change behaviors.
• Coaching for health: The PCP acts as a health coach, rather than just a consultant for sickness, by helping patients set short and long-term health goals, partners with the patient to work toward the goals, and frequently follows up on those goals on the path to improved health for their patients.
• Simplifying for action: The PCP simplifies and prioritizes appropriately so that behavior change is more actionable, both for the patient in helping them achieve their goals, and when leading their care teams towards their performance goals.

We are an outcomes-focused, value-based organization and for their panel of patients, the following metrics are regularly measured to help PCP’s become successful and reach partnership status: patient admissions/thousand, using between 18-21 appointment slots per day (each new patient count for 2 slots, follow-up patients 1 slot), CGCAHPS (patient experience), clinical gaps closures, and medical cost measures. Each PCP will have goals for these metrics and will be expected to work towards those targets with their center and market leadership as well as their care teams. Culture is very important in the medical centers and because PCP’s are leaders in our organization and centers, they are expected to help champion a positive culture of love, accountability, and passion along with center leadership.

The PCP will be required to demonstrate the ability to function both independently and in collaboration with other health care professionals. The PCP will work closely with the applicable managers and medical directors to ensure compliance with guidelines along with participating in risk and quality management programs, clinical meetings and other meetings as required that promote patient health and company goals.
The PCP will adhere to strict departmental goals/objectives, standards of performance, regulatory compliance, quality patient care compliance, and policies and procedures.

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