Chief Medical Officer (CMO)
Rocky Mountain Health Care Services (RMHCS)About the role
Job Details
Job Location Colorado Springs Explorer Location - COLORADO SPRINGS, COSecondary Job Location(s) Colorado Springs Pikes Peak Location - Colorado Springs, CO; Colorado Springs Quail Lake Location - Colorado Springs , COPosition Type Full TimeEducation Level Graduate DegreeSalary Range $270000.00 - $325000.00 SalaryTravel Percentage NegligibleJob Shift DayJob Category ExecutiveJob Posting Date(s)
End Date 10/30/2025Description
POSITION SUMMARY: The Chief Medical Officer (CMO) provides strategic and operational medical leadership to Rocky Mountain Health Care Services, ensuring the highest standards of clinical quality, participant safety, and regulatory compliance. Reporting directly to the President, the CMO is responsible for medical policy, decision-making, and oversight of all medical affairs and clinical functions, including participant care, utilization management, quality assurance, and credentialing. The CMO fosters collaboration among providers, oversees clinical quality improvement initiatives, and represents the organization with regulators, community stakeholders, and the Board of Directors.
MISSION: Improving lives, Optimizing wellness, Promoting independence
COMPETENCIES:
- Sound Clinical Judgment
- Effective Communication & Collaboration
- Effective Supervision and Coaching
- Quality Focus
- Strategic Focus
- Conflict Management
- Facilitates Change
- Professionalism
- Decisiveness & Problem-Solving
RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES:
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:
Medical Leadership
- Provides overall leadership and oversight of RMHCS physicians and nurse practitioners, including their hiring, supervision, evaluation, training, and education.
- Champions a culture that prioritizes provider well-being, resilience, and engagement, recognizing their essential role in delivering safe, high-quality participant care.
- Evaluates and improves medical service delivery embracing implementation of best practices for RMHCS and leads development of standards of care for RMHCS.
- Responsible for the delivery of participant care and clinical outcomes.
- Review of pharmacy utilization, pharmacy reports and processes.
- Leadership/collaboration of the RMHCS utilization management program, encompassing both pharmacy and comprehensive medical services. This includes establishing and maintaining evidence-based clinical criteria for appropriate use of diagnostic testing, specialty referrals, procedures, hospital admissions, and post-acute care services.
- The CMO will lead review processes for high-cost, high-frequency, or complex cases, monitor utilization trends, and identify patterns of overuse or underuse.
- The CMO will work closely with interdisciplinary teams to align care delivery with clinical best practices, reduce unnecessary variation, and improve participant outcomes.
- Collaborate with RMHCS Executive Team to enhance organizational development, service delivery, and strategic initiatives.
- Ensures compliance with regulatory requirements, engaging providers in peer-to-peer case discussions, and implementing corrective action plans when utilization concerns are identified.
- Oversee the orientation/onboarding of new providers to PACE standards and regulations.
- Provides direct participant care as needed.
Credentialing & Quality Management
- Establish credentialing and re-credentialing standards for medical providers.
- Implementation and oversight of the RMHCS quality and performance improvement program in collaboration with Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) and Chief Operations Officer (COO). Direct and oversee clinical quality management, including ident
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