Medical Director, Extended Care

Job Description Summary

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The Regional Medical Director, Extended Care is a senior physician leader responsible for the clinical, operational, and strategic performance of an assigned team. This role provides leadership across multiple care teams, provider teams, and interdisciplinary clinical functions to ensure the delivery of exceptional patient outcomes within a value-based care model.

This leader is accountable for translating enterprise strategy into execution while ensuring clinical excellence, regulatory compliance, and sustained provider performance. Partnering with medical services and other support teams, they are ultimately responsible for driving quality outcomes, total cost of care performance, utilization management, provider engagement, and clinical excellence across multiple teams. The role is accountable for advancing population health strategies, supporting provider performance, and ensuring regulatory and quality compliance within the region.

CareMore’s model is deeply rooted in population health, proactive care coordination, and high-risk member management, so this role is highly focused on outcomes, prevention, and reducing avoidable utilization.

This is often a people leader role over multiple physician leaders, not just individual clinicians. ‎

How will you make an impact & Requirements

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Key Responsibilities

Clinical Leadership

• •Provide physician leadership across multiple clinics, markets, teams, or regions
• •Establish clinical standards, workflows, and evidence-based care practices
• •Ensure consistency in care delivery across all accountable teams
• •Lead regional medical strategy aligned with enterprise goals
• •Serve as the senior physician escalation point for clinical issues

Provider Leadership & Talent Management

• •Lead and develop physicians leaders, advanced practice providers, and clinical leaders
• •Conduct performance management, coaching, and development planning
• •Support succession planning and physician leadership pipeline development
• •Partner with Talent Acquisition on provider hiring and workforce planning
• •Lead physician engagement and retention initiatives

Value-Based Performance Accountability

• •Own regional performance for:
• •HEDIS
• •STAR ratings
• •RAF / risk adjustment
• •readmission reduction
• •emergency department utilization
• •inpatient admissions
• •length of stay
• •total cost of care

• •Lead interventions for high-risk and chronic populations
• •Drive medical expense improvement initiatives
• •Partner with care management and UM leadership

Operational Partnership

• •Support market growth strategy and geographic expansion
• •Partner with network, pharmacy, case management, and UM
• •Lead operational change initiatives
• •Support workflow redesign and transformation efforts
• •Provide clinical leadership during restructures, new market launches, and regional transitions

Financial & Business Accountability

• •Accountable for clinical cost performance across assigned region
• •Monitor provider productivity and panel performance
• •Identify trends in utilization and cost leakage
• •Develop and support budget and staffing decisions
• •Drive margin improvement through clinical interventions

External Relationship Management

• •Build strategic relationships with health plan partners
• •Engage community providers and referral networks
• •Represent CareMore in market-level clinical partnerships
• •Support provider relations and physician network engagement
• •Serve as physician-facing leader in community and payer meetings

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Compensation Range:

$306,907.00 to

$460,361.00

The anticipated base salary range represents the Company's good-faith estimate of the compensation it reasonably expects to pay for this position at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, skills, qualifications, geographic location, internal equity, and business needs.