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Optum NY, (formerly Optum Tri-State NY) is seeking a Associate Medical Director, Network Partnerships to join our team in Queensbury, NY. Optum is a clinician-led care organization that is changing the way clinicians work and live.

As a member of the Optum Care Delivery team, you’ll be an integral part of our vision to make healthcare better for everyone.

At Optum, you’ll have the clinical resources, data and support of a global organization behind you so you can help your patients live healthier lives. Here, you’ll work alongside talented peers in a collaborative environment that is guided by diversity and inclusion while driving towards the Quadruple Aim. We believe you deserve an exceptional career, and will empower you to live your best life at work and erience the fulfillment of advancing the health of your community with the excitement of contributing new practice ideas and initiatives that could help improve care for millions of patients across the country.

Because together, we have the power to make health care better for everyone. Join us and discover how rewarding medicine can be while Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

The Optum Health East region is seeking an experienced medical director to support our care transformation efforts. Working with the Optum East Regional Medical Director, Population Health, this key physician will provide expertise in population health, risk adjustment and quality. They will work to support and grow our physician network and provide valuable input into the strategy, design and implementation of existing and future value-based initiatives and programs.

This is a role that partners with external leaders and requires collaboration and the ability to build relationships across all levels of the organization to ensure goals are met. This physician will be comfortable interacting daily with clinical, business and finance executives, as well as frontline clinicians and operational staff. The successful candidate will be able to not only drive value in existing work streams, but to build and expand our portfolio of solutions in additional domains.

If you are located in Queensbury, NY, you will have the flexibility to work remotely*, as well as work in the office as you take on some tough challenges. Hybrid role 2-3 days onsite.

Primary Responsibilities

• Hospital and medical group engagement and relationship management
• Collaborate with hospital-based physicians and other stakeholders (e.g., nurses, case managers, social workers) to coordinate care transitions from the outpatient and inpatient environments
• Support the ongoing relationship with key stakeholders at multiple levels across hospital systems, IPA participants, vendors, and Optum Health businesses
• Clinical support for operational teams
• Establish and maintain evidence-based standards for clinical documentation and care coordination activities
• Navigate professional body guidelines, published literature, coding rules and regulations to provide thought leadership and recommended actions to physicians
• Partnership with market clinical leaders
• Builds/maintains/manages market stakeholder relationships across multiple layers and functions
• Lead and support physician-to-physician discussions and problem-solving with medical group leaders, hospitalists, specialists, market CMO’s, and clinical leaders from market vendors and service providers
• Assist analytical efforts to identify and quantify new opportunities to improve the value of services delivered to reduce low-value utilization while also improving quality, patient and provider experience
• Proactively work with team to synthesize and communicate findings and bring together multiple stakeholders to deploy programs
• Emotional…