Physician - San Diego, CA

- Provide physician coverage for a dynamic service area, usually including 8 to 20 skilled facilities, depending on geographic distance, patient volume, etc. Covered facilities may be added or changed to meet current contractual needs.
- Determine and conduct an appropriate rounding schedule to accommodate skilled and custodial patient visit requirements
- Conduct and appropriately document timely patient visits in compliance with clinical need and regulatory requirements.
- Efficiently manage long-term care (custodial) patients, including ACO REACH patients in nursing facilities
- Participate in brief daily rounds for ACO REACH patients – discuss the change in status, condition with ACO REACH medical director
- Manage medical care of patients on skilled days; ensure adequate visits according to contract requirements and medical necessity; effect safe and timely discharge from skilled level of care. - Requirements are defined in accordance with applicable legal and regulatory standards
- Conduct (or delegate, as appropriate) timely monthly visits to all custodial patients in designated service area in accordance with California Title 22 requirements.
- Respond to direct phone calls and pages from 7:00 AM to 6:00 PM, Monday through Friday, according to CCMD policy (see Clinical Operations Manual; Section 3, Communications).
- Initiate adequate daily communication with Call Center for review and follow-up of non-critical calls, pages, requests for orders, lab results, etc. Provide clear direction for nurse callbacks.
- Thorough and accurate medical documentation of all visits using SOAP format in group EMR.
- Dictate timely discharge summary for skilled patients returned to care of PCP.
- Participate equally in shared daytime weekend call with option to participate in overnight and weekend call for additional pay
- Participate in QI program and Peer Review
- Participate in utilization management program
- Attend medical staff meetings
- Active, ongoing patient/family communication.
- Appropriate CPT and ICD10 coding and daily submission of billing forms to office.
- Timely completion of all medical records and signing of telephone orders and charts in accordance with facility and other applicable requirements and regulations.