Internal Medicine Physician

Over $300K potential in compensation Primary Care Physician Location: Pittsburgh, PA, USA Up to $30,000 Signing Bonus

Why Work at AbsoluteCare?

At AbsoluteCare, we serve the most vulnerable individuals in America. These are our neighbors, people who are at higher risk for disease or who have multiple, complex, chronic illnesses. Often, they deal with an unequal healthcare system and wind up seeking basic care from emergency rooms. We take these patients out of those spaces and turn them into members : people who are entitled to some of the best, most focused care this country has to offer.

We call this care beyond medicine. We have turned the doctor s office into a comprehensive care center. Here, we surround our members with a core care team of doctors, nurses, social workers, and medical assistants who have the time and skills to get to know our members needs. We make the most important services available to our members under one roof. This includes a pharmacy, X-rays, a blood lab, nutrition services, urgent care, and much more.

We don t stop at our four walls. We engage members in the communities where we all live to find the people who need us most. Through these community care teams, we remove the barriers to healthcare that so many people face daily. And it works .

Our unique care is guided by our core values of accountability, caring, trust, and teamwork. We call it ACT 2 .

Job Summary

This role provides physician services including counseling patients regarding the most appropriate setting to meet their healthcare needs, performing diagnostic evaluations and treatment, providing the appropriate information regarding specialist services, and end of life programs. This role functions as a part of a large, integrated care team with the goal of providing whole-person care in the outpatient setting.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Focus on the management and improvement of health for patients with multiple chronic medical conditions.
• Work in a team environment (with social work, care management, behavioral health, nursing, pharmacy, nutrition, etc.), process feedback, and facilitate discussion and implementing plans of care from other members of the team.
• Treatment of some acute exacerbations of chronic conditions onsite.
• Possess a comfort level and the knowledge to differentiate when exacerbation can be treated within AbsoluteCARE and when a higher level of care is needed.
• Accept same day/next day or urgent appointments for patients from home or discharged from the hospital/ER/skilled nursing facility in need of intensified physician or case management/social work services to ensure acute episode has resolved and the patient is not admitted/readmitted.
• Vigilant in keeping track of patients and their disease processes to prevent ER visits, admissions to the hospital, and readmissions.
• Assist with educating patients regarding their chronic diseases and healthy choices.
• Practice evidenced based medicine and in accordance with the PCMH model of care.
• Able to keep track of and successfully obtain specified quality metric goals.
• Perform other duties as required consistent with chronic care and disease management services provided to patients.
• Implement plans of care in collaboration with the patient, their family and other team members.
• Develop strong transitional care plans and able to keep track of paneled patients along the whole continuum of care including hospital discharges, ER, skilled nursing facilities and home care.
• Track and successfully obtain specified quality metric goals.
• Use technology and the electronic health record to the highest capability to increase quality initiatives and efficiency within the practice.
• Participate in multi-disciplinary meetings and recommends treatment initiatives designed to keep patients healthy or resolve ongoing clinical issues.
• Provide on-call coverage for the office and hospital in rotation with other providers.

Minimum Qualifications

• Licensed physician in the state of practice.
• Board certified Internal Medicine or Family Practice.
• BLS certification required.
• Experience in population health management is preferred.
• Experience in working with psychosocially and medically complex patients is strongly preferred.
• Knowledge or experience with NCQA PCMH model is preferred.
• Must be able to work as part of a multidisciplinary team with constant collaboration within and across provider teams.
• Innovative and creative and innovative self-starter to help solve patient's problems.
• Experience and comfort around maximizing EMR systems.
• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills.
• Effectively adapt and respond to a complex, fast-paced, and results-oriented environment.
• Knowledge and experience using Electronic Medical Records and ability to analyze and leverage their reporting capabilities.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Excel).