Medical Director, Specialty Care

Job Description

A bit more about this role:

This position represents an amazing opportunity for an ambitious clinician-leader with an entrepreneurial streak. Devoted Medical is building clinical programs to manage and coordinate care in a manner consistent with Devoted’s values of treating every member like family. Our members with chronic conditions often lack access to high-quality specialty care because of a scarcity of specialist care in their community or barriers to access. 

We are on a mission to deliver best-in-class specialty care on a national scale through our virtual care platform. Devoted Medical’s interprofessional teams combine remote monitoring, medical management, psychosocial support, and high-touch disease education to deliver seamless specialty care in the comfort of our members’ homes. You will be supported by advanced AI-enabled technology and comprehensive Devoted Medical programs — including primary care, virtual urgent care, behavioral health, complex care management, and clinical pharmacy services. This position offers the opportunity to impact patient outcomes at scale in a modern, tech-supported care environment.

As the Medical Director of Specialty Care, you will have the opportunity to lead the ongoing clinical transformation of Devoted Medical’s existing specialty programs into fully integrated virtual Specialty Care clinics in General Cardiology, Congestive Heart Failure, and Chronic Kidney Disease. You will also be the strategic leader and clinical architect of new Specialty Care service lines currently in development.

 

Required Skills and experience:

• A licensed physician with ideally 10 or more years working in clinical practice - ideally someone who has experience in building and leading telehealth services.

• Experience managing other clinicians is mandatory.

• Experience designing and implementing clinical programs to improve population health. 

• Experience working in interprofessional teams. 

• Comfort interfacing with technical teams and technology based solutions.

• An understanding of how different health care payment models work including managed care models and how to measure and track care quality and clinical program metrics.

• No geographic restrictions within the United States.

Your Responsibilities and impact will include: 

Clinical Model Strategy and Design

• Serve as a senior leader to shape the overall clinical strategy of Devoted Medical with a focus on growth and scaling of virtual specialty care services

• Own the Specialty Care value-based care strategy for Devoted Medical risk group

• Refine program eligibility criteria and prioritization to ensure that we engage with the most impactible patient populations

• Develop and continuously refine the clinical model to drive exceptional clinical results with sustainable operations (ROI)

• Manage the design and execution of core processes to ensure seamless integration of the Specialty Care clinics into Devoted Medical larger portfolio of clinical services

• Cultivate an industry-wide network, contribute to thought leadership in virtual care delivery, and disseminate key learnings nationally

Clinical Oversight 

• Co-develop the necessary technology and data platforms with Devoted’s exceptional tech and data teams to deliver best in class clinical outcomes at scale

• Refine and monitor Specialty Care clinical KPIs to identify areas of strength and underperformance with the goal of continuous improvement

• Lead our interdisciplinary auditing and clinical performance management processes to incentivize / disseminate best practices

• Participate in joint operating committee(s) with community partners and Devoted Health Plan leaders and incorporate feedback into the specialty care clinical model

• Maintain and enforce the highest standards related to compliance and patient safety as the ultimate owner of clinical policies and procedures 

Care Team Leadership

• Design/refine the organizational structure of Specialty Care’s leadership team and front line staff to deliver the highest level of care and program performance

• Partner with the Specialty Care senior director of operat