Physician Assistant

Role Description

Our Care Teams include a doctor, a nurse practitioner or a physician assistant, medical assistants, a scribe, and support from registered nurses and care managers. At Oak Street Health, Physician Assistants (PAs) are integral members of our Care Teams. PAs see patients independently and collaborate with doctors, depending upon the patient's specific situation. PAs provide longitudinal care and build meaningful patient relationships; this creates trust and helps our patient understand and feel connected to his/her care plan.

Together this team is responsible for providing and coordinating care for an intimate panel of patients in our neighborhoods. While the typical primary care panel in the U.S. is around 2,500 patients for a single provider, our panels at Oak Street Health are around 500-750 for a team. This creates an opportunity to spend more time with patients, build deeper relationships, and to better execute/coordinate care plans.

PAs practice in our outpatient practices. We partner with a network of elite specialists and hospitals for specialty and acute care. As such, our PAs, in collaboration with our doctors, focus on care within the clinic: primary care, care coordination, and population health.

Core Responsibilities

• Provision of exceptional primary care.

• Office visits for routine and acute issues.

• Annual wellness visits and health risk assessments, which require a holistic view of health and a focus on thoughtful, accurate, and specific documentation.

• Care coordination with other providers, specialists, testing facilities, agencies.

• Population health leadership, in coordination with the Care Team (e.g., making sure all eligible women get their evidence-based breast cancer screening every 2 years).

• Phone triage and outreach.

• Patient education.

• Oak Street Health promotional activities.

• Home visits as needed.

• Other duties, as assigned.

This role reports to the Center Medical Director and works closely with operational leadership.

What are we looking for?

• Physician Assistants with experience in primary care: internal medicine, geriatrics, or family medicine.

• Experience with risk adjustments and/or home assessments.

• Understands HCC (Hierarchical Condition Categories) documentation, ICD-10 (International Classification of Diseases-10) Coding, and Health Risk Assessments (HRAs).

• Active, non-probationary state PA license.

• National certification as a Physician Assistant through NCCPA.

• Genuine passion for primary care. (Done well, the practice of medicine should be fun.)

• Intrinsically motivated and prefer to work hard.

• Embrace teamwork and the opportunity to collaborate with brilliant colleagues.

• Want to be a part of an innovative model focused on empirically-guided population health.

• Spanish language skills are strongly preferred, depending on clinic location.

• US Work Authorization.

• Someone who embodies being 'Oaky'.