Job Details
Job Location
Illinois - Chicago, IL
Remote Type
Fully Remote
Position Type
Full Time
Education Level
Graduate Degree
Job Category
Health Care
Description
Are you fulfilled by working with vulnerable populations with complex medical and social needs? If you want your clinical work to have a significant impact, consider working with MedZed. We are seeking an exceptional provider (MD, PA, or NP) to join our practice.
About MedZed:
MedZed is a fast-paced organization focused on inspiring and enabling better health using technology to bring healthcare to complex, hard to reach patients. We partner with health plans and managed care organizations to allow these high-risk patients to be treated where they live and help them stay healthy and out of the ER. Serving members in seven states, MedZed has completed over 250,000 in-home visits and continues to expand throughout the country. Join the team and become part of our story.
Job Description:
MedZed Physician Services utilizes telemedicine technology to bring healthcare to patients with complex medical, behavioral, and social needs. Our practice includes Primary Care Providers (MD, NP, and PA), Behavioral Health Specialists, Palliative Care Team, field nurses, community health workers and care coordinators. Our nurses visit patients in their homes and use telemedicine to connect back to the PCPs over our novel technology platform. This allows our PCPs to round on complex patients in their homes without having to drive. Our community health workers and care coordination team manage authorizations, social services, and other patient needs. We partner with health plans and other managed care organizations to help high-risk patients stay healthy and out of the ER.
We are currently recruiting compassionate Primary Care Providers to treat patients remotely over our telemedicine platform in a team-based model of care. You will manage an adult patient panel, attending to chronic, acute, preventive, and sometimes palliative care needs. You will collaborate with a team of nurses in the field who visit your patients, teach patients self-management skills, and operate the telemedicine platform as you interact with and examine the patient. Our team takes care of scheduling, coordinating authorizations and social services, records retrieval, telephonic patient check-ins between visits, and billingso you can focus on taking care of the patients. We provide all infrastructure and administrative support, telemedicine training, EHR, and patient recruitment
Qualifications
Job Requirements
Applicants for this position must have an active Illinois license in good standing and be Board Certified or Board Eligible in Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, or Geriatrics.

• In addition, key attributes of successful candidates are:
• Strong clinical skills with at least 3 years of practice
• Experience providing longitudinal care for a panel of complex patients.
• Compassion for patients with complex medical and social needs
• Comfort collaborating with nurses in the care process.
• Flexible and able to innovate a novel care model.
• Can-do attitude, good analytical person, and well organized
• Comfortable with technology, including EHR and videoconferencing/telemedicine.
• Spanish language skills preferred.
• Active Illinois License (NP/PA or MD) in good standing required
• For MD candidatesBoard Certification/Board Eligible in Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, or Geriatrics, required.
• Current Medicare and Medicaid participation status

Benefits:

• 100% remote position
• Malpractice coverage
• Competitive compensation
• Paid time off, CME and sick time
• Licensure fees reimbursed
• Up To Date subscription
• Medical, Vision health benefits
• Complete home office set up including equipment and IT support
• Optional short-term and long-term disability insurance

This job is reliant on an executed contract. Contract finalization is pending. Sourcing for a roll-out estimated by August 2024.