Vice President, Provider Recruiting and Contracting

We are hiring a Vice President Provider Recruitment and Contracting

Your experience matters

At Lifepoint Health we are committed to empowering and supporting a diverse and determined workforce who can drive quality scalability and significant impact across our hospitals and communities.

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The Vice President Provider Recruitment and Contracting is accountable for developing and executing Lifepoint Healths enterprise strategy for physician and advanced practice professional (APP) recruitment contracting onboarding coordination and workforce pipeline development. This role ensures the organization attracts engages contracts and retains the clinical talent required to support enterprise growth patient access quality and long-term sustainability objectives.

This executive owns the end-to-end provider recruitment and contracting lifecycle across acute ambulatory and service line settings for providers employed by or contracted with a Lifepoint medical group. The role establishes scalable operating models standardized processes governance and performance expectations that reduce time-to-fill accelerate contracting timelines strengthen onboarding effectiveness and support provider retention.

Working in close partnership with division leadership Medical Group Services operations finance legal physician leaders graduate medical education and service line leadership the Vice President aligns provider workforce planning with market demand growth priorities and enterprise clinical access goals. Success is measured by the organizations ability to consistently recruit and retain high-performing providers execute compliant and competitive contracts efficiently improve the providers experience and meet workforce demands across all markets.

The position is considered a hybrid role with an expectation of travel around 25%.

How youll contribute

AVice President Provider Recruiting and Contracting who excels in this role will focus on the following:

Enterprise Provider Workforce Strategy

• Lead the development and execution of enterprise recruitment and contracting strategies for employed physicians advanced practice professionals and providers with professional services agreements within the medical group line of business.

• Partner with operational clinical financial and service line leaders to align provider workforce planning with enterprise growth patient access succession and care delivery priorities.

• Develop scalable recruiting and contracting models workforce planning methodologies and market-level recruitment objectives that proactively address provider shortages succession risks access gaps and growth opportunities.

Provider Recruitment Excellence

• Provide executive leadership for physician and APP recruitment teams responsible for sourcing candidate engagement site visits selection offer development and hiring across priority specialties geographies and service lines.

• Implement innovative sourcing branding marketing and outreach strategies that improve candidate generation diversity of candidate pipelines and recruitment effectiveness in accordance with Lifepoint Health Business Solutions standards.

• Partner with Graduate Medical Education programs professional associations academic institutions and external organizations to establish sustainable provider pipelines consistent candidate experience standards and leadership capability within the recruitment function

Provider Contracting and Compensation Administration

• Lead enterprise provider contracting processes to ensure efficient compliant and timely execution renewal and amendment of employment agreements including offers term sheets contract reviews approvals and execution.

• Establish contracting governance frameworks standardized workflows approval and escalation pathways documentation standards and processes for identifying and escalating high-risk or non-standard contract terms.

• Partner with finance legal physician compensation and operational leaders to support contract development and negotiations while balancing recruitment competitiveness with financial stewardship internal equity enterprise compensation standards and market-specific needs.

• Ensure provider contracting practices comply with organizational policies and applicable requirements concerning fair market value commercial reasonableness Stark Law the Anti-Kickback Statute and other relevant laws and regulations.

Provider Onboarding and Integration

• Partner with operations credentialing payer enrollment IT People Services and market leadership to define ownership handoffs timelines and escalation pathways that ensure a coordinated provider onboarding experience.

• Establish enterprise onboarding standards that support a coordinated transition from recruitment through full clinical integration initial productivity and sustain provider satisfaction.

• Monitor onboarding performance identify barriers to timely start dates and successful integration and use feedback and performance data to improve provider satisfaction engagement and time-to-productivity.

Provider Retention and Engagement

• Collaborate with physician leadership and operational teams to support provider retention initiatives workforce stability strategies and proactive engagement programs across the employment lifecycle.

• Utilize workforce analytics exit data engagement results and other indicators to identify turnover risks monitor retention trends and implement targeted interventions that improve physician and APP engagement organizational alignment professional development and succession planning.

Enterprise Performance Management and Operational Excellence

• Establish key performance indicators reporting structures service level expectations and accountability mechanisms for recruitment contracting onboarding and retention.

• Utilize data and analytics to identify opportunities for process improvement operational efficiency workforce optimization and continuous improvement initiatives that reduce vacancies shorten recruitment and contracting timelines improve onboarding readiness and accelerate provider ramp-up.

• Develop enterprise dashboards that provide visibility into workforce demand recruitment pipelines contract status onboarding readiness retention and operational barriers while ensuring consistent execution of enterprise standards with appropriate market-specific flexibility.

Leadership and Stakeholder Partnership

• Serve as the executive leader for provider recruitment and contracting teams across the enterprise leading developing and retaining geographically dispersed teams while building accountability and succession capability.

• Build effective partnerships with division presidents market CEOs CMOs physician leaders Medical Group Services leadership finance legal and compliance compensation People Services and other key stakeholders while fostering a culture of accountability collaboration service excellence and continuous improvement.

Why join us

We believe that investing in our employees is the first step to providing excellent patient addition to your base compensation this position also offers:

• Comprehensive Benefits:Multiple levels of medical dental and vision coverage for full-time andpart-time employees.

• Financial Protection & PTO:Life accident critical illness hospital indemnity insurance short- and long-term disability paid family leave and paid time off.

• Financial & Career Growth:Higher education and certification tuition assistance loan assistance and 401(k) retirement package and company match.

• Employee Well-being:Mental physical and financial wellness programs (free gym memberships virtual care appointments mental health services and discount programs).

• Professional Development:Ongoing learning and career advancement opportunities.

What were looking for
Applicants are required to have a Masters degree in Health Administration (MHA) Business Administration (MBA) Public Health (MPH) Human Resources Management Health Services Administation or a related field.

Additional requirements include:

• Relevant professional certification or advanced leadership development in healthcare physician enterprise operations provider recruitment or human resources preferred.

• 10 years of progressive leadership experience in healthcare provider recruitment physician enterprise operations workforce management medical group operations or related healthcare leadership roles.

• 5 years leading multi-site geographically dispersed provider recruitment and contracting teams; experience in integrated health systems physician enterprises medical group services organizations or multi-market healthcare organizations preferred.

• Demonstrated success recruiting physicians and advanced practice professionals across multiple specialties practice settings and markets; proven experience developing enterprise provider workforce strategies that support organizational growth and access objectives.

• Successful track record leading organizational change standardizing processes and improving enterprise performance through scalable operating models.

• Strong knowledge of provider compensation methodologies physician employment agreements contract negotiations healthcare workforce trends and provider recruitment best practices.

• Demonstrated ability to partner effectively with legal finance physician leadership operations executive teams and other stakeholders in complex provider recruitment and contracting environments.

• Ability to use workforce analytics and performance metrics to improve recruitment outcomes contracting efficiency onboarding effectiveness provider retention and operational performance.

• Strong executive communication relationship-building negotiation strategic planning change leadership and team development skills.

• Maintains compliance with applicable regulatory requirements and supports hospital and department policies procedures and standards.
  Consistently supports the mission vision values and goals of the hospital and Lifepoint Health.

• Acts in a positive proactive and professional manner when interacting with employees leaders physicians patients visitors and community partners.

• Maintains confidentiality complies with HIPAA requirements and handles sensitive business and patient information appropriately.

• Demonstrates accountability for workplace safety and completes assigned education training and mandatory requirements in a timely manner.

• Maintains required licensure certification and professional credentials if applicable in good standing.
  
  

EEOC Statement

Lifepoint Healthis an Equal Opportunity Employer.Lifepoint Healthis committed to Equal Employment Opportunity for all applicants and employees and complies with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination and harassment in employment.

You must be authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship.