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.
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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.

Skills
Talent Acquisition, Regulatory Compliance