Lead Reviewing Medical Officer RMOMedical Employability Program

STGi is currently seeking a Lead Reviewing Medical Officer (RMO) for the Medical Employability at Federal Occupational Health (FOH). The candidate must be located in the Washington DC Metropolitan area.

* Position type:
Remote

Job Specific Duties and Responsibilities: Provides oversight and management of the medical component of the Medical Employability Program (MEP), Department of Labor District Medical Advisor program (DOL), and the Psychological Assessment and Consultation Services. This program area provides consultation services and performs case reviews for customer agencies to improve employee productivity and minimize lost workdays. This position also provides oversight for the District Medical Advisors who perform Workers’ Compensation case reviews for the Department of Labor and clinical psychologists who perform psychological consultation and assessment.

This position is responsible for ensuring that case assignments are appropriate based on provider’s medical expertise, medical providers complete cases by agreement deadlines, and that medical recommendations are in accordance with industry quality and evidence-based medical standard of care.

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Quality & Safety

· Develops, monitors quarterly, and reviews annually the policy and standard operating procedures for the MEP, DOL, and PACS.

· Conducts performance improvement initiatives for MEP, DOL, and PACS by collecting metrics and uses these metrics for continuous quality improvement.

· Demonstrates a strong level of technical expertise in occupational and primary care medicine and provides consultation (and medical care when required) of the highest caliber.

· Demonstrates a strong level of expertise in federal regulations and industry standards for the types of case reviews conducted in MEP, DOL, PACS.

· Possesses a strong technical knowledge regarding occupational federal safety and health regulations.

· Performs medical consultation and completes medical reviews in accordance with FOH policy and guidelines.

· Assists in establishing and participates in performing privileging and peer reviews as well as continuous quality improvement assessments, particularly of the various examination types that are reviewed in and/or MEP.

· Develops documents in accordance with national healthcare quality organization standards and guidelines, such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, HRSA, and The Joint Commission.

· Maintains board-certification and licenses to practice medicine in accordance with professional societies and state regulations.

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Service Operations

· Serves as chief medical officer for MEP, DOL, and PACS.

· Responsible for daily supervision of MEP, DOL, and PACS medical review staff.

o Assesses the quality, accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of workload products and deliverables. Reports deviations from expectations to the designated federal physician.

o Assist with updating Job Specific Position Descriptions for medical staff positions in the program annually.

o Review vendor personnel forms for telework agreements, overtime requests, leave requests, and travel requests and recommend approval with justification to the designated federal manager.

o Complete annual performance feedback for medical staff for federal manager review and approval.

o Bring program and staff performance issues or concerns to the attention of the designated program manager.

· Ensures that medical reviews are appropriately distributed among medical review staff.

· Ensures that medical staff to complete reviews using appropriate resources.

· Completes DOL FECA DMA training and maintains a working knowledge of FECA DMA requirements.

· Performs MEP case reviews to bill a minimum of 50% of time.

· Supports the medical and consultative needs for one (1) or more federal agencies.

· Performs a mixture of administrative, clinical, and consultant responsibilities depending on their specific assignments and the needs of FOH in completing a case.

· Promotes improvement-oriented ideas.

· Provides expert witness testimony services to support medical recommendations on employability, reasonable accommodation, and other cases in which medical consultation is provided to a…