Your Future Evolves Here

Evolent partners with health plans and providers to achieve better outcomes for people with most complex and costly health conditions. Working across specialties and primary care, we seek to connect the pieces of fragmented health care system and ensure people get the same level of care and compassion we would want for our loved ones.

Evolent employees enjoy work/life balance, the flexibility to suit their work to their lives, and autonomy they need to get things done. We believe that people do their best work when they're supported to live their best lives, and when they feel welcome to bring their whole selves to work. That's one reason why diversity and inclusion are core to our business.

Join Evolent for the mission. Stay for the culture.

What You’ll Be Doing:

As a Behavioral Health Field Medical Director will be a key member of the utilization management team. We can offer you a meaningful way to make a difference in patients lives, in a non-clinical environment. You can enjoy better work- life balance on a team that values collaboration and continuous learning while providing better health outcomes. We believe in embracing new ideas, challenging ourselves and failing forward. We have fun while working hard and often make a difference in everything from scrubs to jeans.

Collaboration Opportunities:

Evolent Health is looking for a Behavioral Health Medical Director to be a member of the Evolent clinical team. As a collaborative member of a team of clinicians, physicians, pharmacists, health economists, and program coordinators, you will have the opportunity to make a profound impact on the lives of our members. Routinely interacts with leadership and management staff, other Physicians, and staff whenever a physician`s input is needed or required. As well as, aids and acts as a resource to Initial Clinical Reviewers.

What you’ll be doing:

• Supports pre-admission review, utilization management, and concurrent and retrospective review process.

• Participates in risk management, claim adjudication, pharmacy utilization management, catastrophic case review, outreach programs,

• Assists with execution of Evolent's benchmarked Utilization/Cost Management Program and relevant Clinical Quality Improvement Programs

• Participate in the Appeals and Grievance process, as necessary, to assure timely and accurate responses to members

• Supports design and implementation of health plan medical policies, and appropriate Care Management and UM goals and objectives

• Population health – collaborative care management leadership

• Provides clinical leadership and development for population health programs or functional areas within Medical Management.

• Assists in assuring appropriate health care delivery for the assigned membership and managing the medical costs associated with the assigned population.

• Promotion of managed care systems using evidence-based medicine to educate and facilitate best practices with care management staff and medical providers.

• Participate in committees as assigned.

• Provides guidance and interpretation on issues of medical appropriateness, benefit application as appropriate, level of care necessary to include out-of-network care.

• Evaluates and ensures systems and processes to assist providers with adherence to evidence based protocols

• Assures compliance related to Federal (e.g., CMS), State (e.g., Insurance commission) and local rules and regulations.

Qualifications :

• Board Certification in Psychiatry

• Graduate of an accredited medical school. Either MD or DO degree is required.

• Active physician license without any restrictions.

• 3-5 years of clinical practice in a primary care setting and progressively responsible medical administrative experience preferred.

• Proven ability in medical leadership position possessing clinical credibility with peers and the ability to be a team player and team builder.

• A thorough understanding of all aspects of managed care, including HMOs, PHOs, risk arrangements, capitation, peer review, performance profiling, outcome management, care coordination, pharmacy management, and patient centered medical home concepts.

• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.

• Consistently completes continuing education activities relevant to practice area and needed to maintain licensure.

• Ability to navigate in a corporate matrix environment is preferred.

Technical Requirements:

We require that all employees have the following technical capability at their home: High speed internet over 10 Mbps and, specifically for all call center employees, the ability to plug in directly to the home internet router. These at-home technical requirements are subject to change with any scheduled re-opening of our office locations.

Evolent is an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants equally without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or disability status. If you need reasonable accommodation to access the information provided on this website, please contact recruiting@evolent.com for further assistance.

The expected base salary/wage range for this position is $120-130/hr. This position is also eligible for a bonus component that would be dependent on pre-defined performance factors. As part of our total compensation package, Evolent is proud to offer comprehensive benefits (including health insurance benefits) to qualifying employees. All compensation determinations are based on the skills and experience required for the position and commensurate with experience of selected individuals, which may vary above and below the stated amounts.

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