VP, Clinical Performance

How We Show Up for Our Patients:

As a leading provider of outcomes-driven care for individuals and communities living with chronic conditions, Somatus is helping patients across the country enjoy More Healthy Days at Home™.

Care at Somatus goes beyond treatment. Through a whole‑person approach, we deliver outcomes‑driven integrated care and show up #SomatusStrong for our patients and teammates. We partner closely with health plans, health systems, and provider groups to support patients with, or at risk of developing, cardio, kidney, metabolic, or other chronic conditions.

We hire the brightest and boldest — talent driven by purpose and impact. Since our founding in 2016, our growth trajectory isn’t just a milestone — it’s a signal. Our leadership values culture and leads with intention as we remain dedicated to driving clinical excellence.

Does this sound like you? Keep reading.

How We’ll Support You:

We offer 25+ health, growth, and wealth work perks to help teammates be the best version of themselves, including:

• Subsidized personal healthcare coverage : Medical, Dental & Vision, plus Wellness programs

• Paid Time Off : Flexible PTO

• Professional development : CEU and tuition reimbursement

How You'll Make an Impact:

The Vice President of Clinical Performance, under direction of the Chief Medical Officer, is responsible for providing physician clinical leadership to direct and advance enterprise-wide efforts to improve value (clinical quality, patient safety, patient experience, access, cost) of care provided to Somatus patients. The VP, Clinical Performance will work closely as the physician partner to the SVP, Clinical Operations and broader clinical operations teams to assess performance across payor-product partners and geographies and to reliably achieve market leading performance. Works closely with clinical data analytics and actuarial teams to develop, refine, and deploy clinical performance population health initiatives and interventions for management use across the enterprise.

The VP, Clinical Performance will be a key member of the corporate clinical leadership team. In close partnership with the SVP, Clinical Operations, the VP will be expected to both develop and deploy a systematic approach to total cost of care (TCOC) improvement as part of routine market management as well as targeted, centrally-led strategic improvement efforts with Operations leaders across the enterprise.

• Provide physician leadership for all aspects of value-based care performance including (but not limited to): multi-payor total cost of care management, clinical quality outcome management, patient safety, NCQA HEDIS quality performance, etc.

• Analyze, interpret and apply healthcare payor claims data around $PMPM, Unit/1000, $$/Unit metrics to systematically explore and identify opportunities to improve total cost of care and clinical quality outcomes.

• Serve as a physician clinical subject matter expert and resource for clinical program and training teams.

• Experienced clinical understanding of inpatient and outpatient care delivery to be able to assess appropriate utilization and reduce avoidable acute care utilization.

• Conducts and/or supports quality improvement and outcomes studies related to clinical quality outcomes, total cost of care management, and management of avoidable acute care utilization.

• Engages and interacts with physician leaders across payor and provider partners, seeking to identify and operationalize partner collaboration opportunities to improve outcomes for shared patient populations.

• Serve as physician leader for robust patient safety program across the enterprise.

• Monitors member satisfaction survey results and works with quality team to augment changes as needed to optimize patient experience and satisfaction.

• Assists, as appropriate, with the contracting process with providers and evaluates the medical aspects of provider contracts.

• Maintains up-to-date knowledge of new information, capabilities, and technologies in value based clinical performance as supported in health plans, ACOs, and value-based providers.

• Understands and supports patient stratification, continuous evaluation, and restratification of members for appropriate resource allocation.

• Experienced with providing written and verbal presentations to executive leadership.

• Represents Somatus at medical group meetings, conferences, etc. as appropriate.

• Lead and attract top talent; motivate, assess, and manage performance to achieve highest and best use of talent.

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities required of the employee. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

How You'll Strengthen Our Team:

Qualifications:

• Graduate of an accredited medical school with M.D. degree.

• Three (3) to five (5) years’ experience in clinical practice.

• Three (3) to five (5) years’ experience in value-based care settings.

• Track record of driving process, quality, and cost outcomes while improving patient care, patient satisfaction, and patient outcomes.

• Leadership experience of people, programs, and resources.

Preferred Qualifications :

• MBA, or Masters-Degree is preferred in healthcare, or other related fields of study.

• Three (3) years of clinical performance and value-based care leadership experience.

• Board certified in internal medicine, nephrology or family medicine.

Our Commitment to Diversity:

At Somatus, we celebrate what makes us unique — our people. We believe that a culture intentionally built to foster and support our unique passions, experiences, and perspectives helps fuel us in the pursuit of our mission.

Somatus, Inc. provides equal employment opportunity to all individuals regardless of race, color, creed, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Discrimination of any type will not be tolerated.