Associate Medical Director - CenterWell - Kansas

Associate Medical Director – Center Well Senior Primary Care – Kansas City

Base pay range: $246,100 – $344,200 per year. Salary is based on experience, skills and education. The role is eligible for a bonus incentive plan.

• Understand organizational & market priorities, trends, and goals to develop a clinical strategy.
• Interview, hire, and supervise clinical teams to staff and develop a high‑quality clinical team with strong engagement, patient‑first culture, and talent retention.
• Engage and communicate with clinicians and care teams; conduct weekly onsite center visits, hold regular individual 1:1 meetings, clinician pod meetings, and monthly leadership meetings.
• Improve primary care clinician performance through data use and coaching.
• Participate in market performance meetings on key topics such as Medical Risk Adjustment, budgeting, staffing, operational excellence, and clinical initiatives.
• Champion senior‑focused primary care strategic vision, foster stakeholder relationships with health plan partners, healthcare providers, and social services.
• Represent Center Well/Conviva brands in local communities and media activities; collaborate with recruitment to build a pipeline of high‑quality primary care clinicians (physicians, APPs, MAs, and other clinical professionals).
• Foster a patient‑centered, value‑based clinical vision, strategy, and culture locally that orients care teams around excellence in patient care, teamwork, and outcomes.
• Deliver leading clinical performance in patient experience, quality of care, clinical outcomes, and avoidable utilization.
• Periodically review clinician charts to identify opportunities and provide coaching.
• Identify critical issues for high‑risk patients and conduct root‑cause analysis with clinical and operational colleagues.
• Ensure clinicians effectively co‑manage high‑risk episodes of care with Care Integration Team resources and programs for transitions of care, high‑risk patient management, and social determinants of health.
• Monitor and manage daily patient care and initiatives to improve team‑based KPIs such as NPS, HEDIS, and Medicare quality metrics.
• Personally deliver high‑quality primary care, age‑friendly care, disease management, specialist and hospital co‑management, and complex care management.
• Spend 20‑30% of time on direct patient care; remaining time for administrative responsibilities.
• Collaborate with operational leaders and shared services partners to align on clinical and operational goals, strategic planning, budgeting, and performance metrics.
• Maintain regular communication to align on performance, strategies, and team communication, ensuring unified decision‑making.
• Work toward common goals supporting the mission, vision, values, and overall patient experience outcomes; manage clinic/market dynamics and engagement; partner on strategic and operational insights, including capital and operational budgeting.
• Review clinician schedules and incentive plans to align with patient access and management goals.

• Graduate of an accredited medical school (MD/DO) with current medical license and maintaining licensure requirements in state of jurisdiction.
• Board certification in Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, or Geriatric Medicine.
• Minimum five years of outpatient practice experience, with clinical experience in primary care, senior health, and value‑based care.
• Minimum three years of experience successfully leading clinicians, demonstrated impact on talent, culture, performance, and partnership with operations.
• Skilled in clinical technology platforms and resources such as EMR systems (e.g., Athenahealth, Epic, eClinical
  
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• Patient‑facing and part of Center Well’s TB screening program; will be screened for TB.
• Required to adhere to Humana’s flu vaccine policy.

• Guaranteed base salary + bonus.
• Excellent benefit package – health insurance effective on first day of employment.
• CME allowance/time.
• Occurrence malpractice insurance.
• Potential relocation and sign‑on bonus options (if applicable).
• 401(k) with employer match.
• Life insurance, disability.
• Paid time off…