Network Medical Executive - West Coast
The Cigna GroupAbout the role
Medical Executive
Clinical Network & Provider Relations
Cigna Healthcare
Region: West Coast
Position Summary
The Medical Executive, Network & Provider Relations serves as a strategic physician leader responsible for improving healthcare affordability and network performance through provider engagement, clinical leadership, value-based care execution, and data-informed collaboration across assigned markets and provider organizations.
This role leverages clinical expertise, market intelligence, trusted provider relationships, and performance insights to influence care delivery, reduce avoidable cost and variation, support network strategy, and strengthen collaboration between Cigna Healthcare and the provider community.
Role Snapshot
Primary Purpose
Improve affordability, network performance, provider collaboration, and clinical value through physician leadership and provider influence.
Primary Partners
Network, contracting, provider relations, market leadership, clinical operations, analytics, actuarial, finance, and provider organizations.
Operating Model Alignment
Participates in Network & Provider Relations special projects to promote consistency, knowledge sharing, and operational excellence.
Role Orientation
Market-facing physician leader with responsibility for translating relationships and insights into measurable affordability and network outcomes.
Primary Responsibilities
Affordability & Network Performance Leadership
Serve as a physician leader supporting affordability, trend, and network performance objectives within assigned markets and provider relationships.
Use provider relationships, market intelligence, and performance data to identify opportunities to improve cost, quality, utilization, access, and overall network performance.
Partner with provider organizations to address clinical and operational drivers of healthcare trend, unnecessary variation, and avoidable cost.
Support implementation of evidence-based initiatives that improve value, strengthen outcomes, and promote appropriate site-of-care, specialty, and referral management strategies.
Collaborate with analytics, actuarial, network, finance, and clinical partners to evaluate opportunities, define interventions, and assess performance improvement.
Provide clinical leadership in addressing emerging affordability risks, provider performance opportunities, and strategic network priorities.
Provider Engagement & Influence
Develop and maintain trusted executive-level relationships with health systems, physician organizations, specialty groups, and independent providers.
Serve as a credible clinical advisor and strategic partner to provider leadership on performance improvement, collaboration, and network priorities.
Facilitate productive dialogue regarding affordability opportunities, provider performance, value-based care, quality outcomes, and clinical collaboration.
Gather provider insight and market intelligence to inform internal decision-making, escalation management, and strategic planning.
Support resolution of complex provider concerns, escal
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