Family Practice - Geriatrics Physician at CenterWell Senior Primary Care summary:
The Family Practice - Geriatrics Physician evaluates and treats elderly patients, ensuring high standards of medical care and quality through chart reviews and data monitoring. They coordinate patient services and collaborate with care teams while meeting documentation requirements and adhering to clinical protocols. This role emphasizes direct patient care, participating in the local call program and exploring growth opportunities within the healthcare center.
Job Description
Total compensation package (base pay + bonus) could exceed $300K depending on experience and location.
Responsibilities:
Evaluates and treats center patients in accordance with standards of care.
Follows level of medical care and quality for patients and monitors care using available data and chart reviews.
Assists in the coordination of patient services, including but not limited to specialty referrals, hospital and SNF coordination, durable medical equipment and home health care.
Acts as an active participant and key source of medical expertise with the care team through daily huddles.
Helps Regional Medical Director and Center Administrator in setting a tone of cooperation in practice by displaying a professional and approachable demeanor.
Completes all medical record documentation in a timely manner working with a quality- based coder to optimize coding specificity.
Follows policy and protocol defined by Clinical Leadership.
Meets with RMD about quality of care, review of outcome data, policy, procedure and records issues.
Participates in potential growth opportunities for new or existing services within the Center.
Participates in the local primary care on-call program of CenterWell as needed.
Assures personal compliance with licensing, certification, and accrediting bodies.
Spend 100% of your time clinically focused on direct patient care, inclusive of patient facing time and general administrative time (charting, meetings, etc.) as it relates to direct patient care.
Keywords:
geriatrics, family practice, patient care, healthcare, medical evaluation, coordinated care, clinical expert, medical documentation, primary care, patient services