Inpatient Medical Director (SoCal)
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Job Location:
California, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 250000 - 325000
Posted on:
11 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
About the Role
The Inpatient Medical Director provides physician leadership across Astrana Healths hospital partners ensuring highquality costeffective inpatient care aligned with Astranas valuebased and population health strategies. This leader partners closely with hospitalists specialists care management and health plan counterparts to drive clinical excellence utilization management and continuity of care across the inpatientpostacute continuum.
The Inpatient Medical Director provides physician leadership across Astrana Healths hospital partners ensuring highquality costeffective inpatient care aligned with Astranas valuebased and population health strategies. This leader partners closely with hospitalists specialists care management and health plan counterparts to drive clinical excellence utilization management and continuity of care across the inpatientpostacute continuum.
What Youll Do
- Serve as physician leader for inpatient clinical operations across assigned hospitals.
- Drive quality safety and patient outcomes aligned with Astrana Healths valuebased and capitated risk programs.
- Partner with hospitalists specialists nursing leadership and case management to optimize LOS avoidable utilization and transitions of care.
- Oversee physician performance clinical compliance and adherence to evidencebased protocols and pathways.
- Collaborate with Population Health Utilization Management and PostAcute teams to reduce readmissions and total cost of care.
- Support payer and delegated risk requirements including clinical documentation medical necessity and audits.
- Act as clinical liaison between Astrana Health hospital partners and community physicians.
What Success Looks Like
- Improved inpatient quality and safety metrics.
- Reduced LOS readmissions and unnecessary utilization.
- Strong physician engagement and alignment with Astrana Healths clinical and financial goals.
- Seamless care transitions across the continuum.
Qualifications
- Medical Degree (MD or DO) from an accredited institution; active and unrestricted medical license in CA.
- 5 years of inpatient clinical experience; prior physician leadership.
- Experience in valuebased care riskbearing models or delegated health plan environments.
- Strong working knowledge of utilization management quality metrics and hospital operations.
- Proven ability to lead influence and collaborate across multidisciplinary teams.
- Strong understanding of state and federal regulations (e.g. CMS DMHC NCQA).
- Excellent communication skills including the ability to engage providers in meaningful respectful clinical dialogue.
- Highly collaborative mindset with a commitment to improving healthcare equity quality and cost-effectiveness.
Environmental Job Requirements and Working Conditions
- While this is a Remote - US Based position this MD will need to reside SoCal to travel to inpatient post-acute facilities physician groups ASC and Health Plans.
- The national target pay range for this role is $250000 - $325000. Actual compensation will be determined based on geographic location (current or future) experience and other job-related factors.
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Additional Information:
The job description does not constitute an employment agreement between the employer and employee and is subject to change by the employer as the needs of the employer and requirements of the job change.
Additional Information:
The job description does not constitute an employment agreement between the employer and employee and is subject to change by the employer as the needs of the employer and requirements of the job change.
Required Experience:
Director
