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The Physician Advisor is a key member of the healthcare organization’s leadership team and is charged with meeting the organization’s goals and objectives for assuring the effective, efficient utilization of health care services. The Physician Advisor is a physician serving the hospital through teaching, consulting, and advising the care management and utilization review departments, healthcare data team and the hospital leadership. The Physician Advisor shall develop expertise on matters regarding physician practice patterns, over and under-utilization of resources, medical necessity, levels of care, care progression, denial management, compliance with governmental and private payer regulations, appropriate physician coding and documentation requirements.
Job Responsibility:
Provide functional leadership for the revenue integrity team Including CDI, Coding and Utilization Review
Responsible for oversight revenue integrity optimization
Lead value-based care initiatives for the organization
Chairs the Utilization Management Team
Review medical records of patients identified by case managers or as requested by the healthcare team including physicians to perform quality and utilization oversight
Perform medical necessity reviews including initial level of care, secondary reviews, and continued stay reviews
Conduct Peer to Peer discussion with Payor Medical Directors when requested
Provide regular feedback to physicians and all other stake holders regarding level of care, length of stay, and potential quality issues
Provide necessary clinical education to UR Case Managers regarding clinical criteria and appropriate use of screening tools
Educates individual hospital staff physicians about ICD-10 and DRG coding guidelines (e.g., co-morbid conditions, outpatient vs. inpatient) and clinical terminology to improve their understanding of severity, acuity, risk of mortality, and DRG assignments on their individual patient records
Collaborate to develop complaint query practices
Collaborate to optimize CDI and Coding review process
Provide necessary clinical support when requested by the team in DRG assignment
Provide clinical support to CDI Manager and RAC auditor for DRG and Level of care denials
Provide necessary education and feedback to providers regarding denials and improve documentation strategies to prevent denials
Conducts physician education sessions to share data, trends, practice patterns, and other relevant information as requested
Proactively reports practice pattern trends and opportunities to service line or department specific meetings at the request of the CMO or hospital leadership
Proactive approach to optimize the service line revenues (professional billing)
Collaborate with Healthcare Data Team in identifying areas or process contributing to excessive cost of care
Upon request, actively participate in Hospital committees to support to develop protocols related to evidence-based medicine and support optimal standards of care
Support Payor Contract Process
Support physician contract process for quality measures
Documents education sessions for medical staff on trends, practice patterns, or relevant information
Develop KPI (dashboard) to monitor progress of revenue integrity
Collaborate with CFO to identify short term and long-term goals
Establish Quality Measures for every 6 months in collaboration with CFO
Requirements:
Hold and maintain or able to obtain an unrestricted medical license in the state of Wyoming
Possess or acquires a solid foundation, knowledge, and/or experience in the areas of utilization management, quality improvement, and patient safety
Familiarity with InterQual and MCG is preferred
Strong understanding of Medicare Two Midnight Rules
Member of the American College of Physician Advisors (ACPA)
Board Certification by the American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians, Inc. (ABQAURP) or ACPA is required within 6 months of hire
Ability to build rapport with medical staff and hospital leadership to obtain the buy-in and collaboration necessary to achieve desired outcomes
Prefer Internal Medicine specialist with a background in Hospital Medicine
Maintain active medical practice in their specialty (Can accommodate clinical time up to 0.15 FTE in the specialty (depending on availability))
Demonstrates behavior that supports the organization’s mission
Adheres to all professional and performance expectations set forth within the medical staff bylaws, rules & regulations and complies with all (Hospital) established policies and procedures
Participate in ongoing training and education related to the Physician Advisor role and responsibilities including topics related to Utilization Management, Care Management and other related areas as requested
Nice to have:
Familiarity with InterQual and MCG
Prefer Internal Medicine specialist with a background in Hospital Medicine
Prefer or willing to learn outpatient denials management