Physician Advisor

Overview:

Make a broader impact beyond patient care and help shape healthcare delivery at Sentara Health. As a Regional Physician Advisor, you'll leverage your clinical expertise to influence patient outcomes, support physician engagement, and drive quality, compliance, and operational excellence while partnering with physicians and leaders across the health system. Sentara Health is seeking to hire a qualified individual to join our team as Regional Physician Advisor.

Position Status: Full-time, Day Shift Position Location: On-site. Standard Working Hours: 8:00AM to 5:00PM (ET).

Expectations for this Role:

The Regional Physician Advisor supports the Clinical Revenue Cycle's Utilization Review and Denials/Appeals processes to determine and secure appropriate level of care assignments to ensure compliant billing, assist with denials management, support documentation integrity as it pertains to accurate coding capture. The Regional Physician Advisor interfaces with hospital and medical staff leadership, facilitating communication between Revenue Cycle leadership and processes and the hospital facilities and championing processes and initiatives. The Regional Physician Advisor assists with both formal and informal education of medical staff at Sentara hospital facilities. This role is responsible for supporting and meeting the Clinical Revenue Cycle functions organizational goals and objectives for assuring the effective, efficient utilization of health care services.

Requirements:

• Completion of Medical doctorate or Doctor of Osteopathy degree from an accredited medical school
• Completion of an accredited residency training program
• Minimum of 5 years of clinical experience, hospital clinical experience strongly preferred
• Minimum of 2 years of physician advisory experience strongly preferred
• Active and unrestricted state Virginia medical license
• Board certification in specialty required at time of hire
• Posess or acquire a thorough understanding of CMS regulatory guidance and requirements as they pertain to UR and site of service decisions
• Possess a working knowledge of clinical documentation integrity, hospital billing and coding processes and guidelines, case mix index, and DRG assignments.
• Familiarity with standard published leveling criteria such as MCG/Interqual and ability to apply professional judgment and patient specific variables as may be necessary or justifiable.
• Familiarity with (Hospital) organization and case management operations
• Excellent customer service and interpersonal skills.
• Able to effectively present information, both formal and informal
• Superb written and verbal communications skills
• Strong organizational and analytic skills, and ability to set and manage priorities
• Demonstrate flexibility, teamwork, and a collaborative leadership style
• Strong technical/computer skills and working knowledge of the system's EMR
• Ability to provide a consistent on-site presence at assigned sites

Benefits:

• Caring For Your Family and Your Career
• Medical, Dental, Vision plans
• Adoption, Fertility and Surrogacy Reimbursement up to $10,000
• Paid Time Off and Sick Leave
• Paid Parental & Family Caregiver Leave
• Emergency Backup Care
• Long-Term, Short-Term Disability, and Critical Illness plans
• Life Insurance
• 401k/403B with Employer Match
• Tuition Assistance - $5,250/year and discounted educational opportunities through Guild Education
• Student Debt Pay Down - $10,000
• Pet Insurance
• Legal Resources Plan
• Colleagues may have the opportunity to earn an annual discretionary bonus if established system and employee eligibility criteria is met

Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center, a Certified Primary Stroke Center, has 145 licensed beds and features the latest healthcare technologies, serving the region with the life-saving capabilities of an ultra-modern medical center. The hospital offers a full range of medical care from emergency heart catheterization to all-inclusive obstetrics care where patients can stay in one room. The hospital also provides advanced imaging and smart operating rooms. Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center has also achieved Magnet recognition, the nation's highest honor for excellence in nursing. We improve health every day, come be a part of the community.

Sentara Health is an equal opportunity employer and prides itself on the diversity and inclusiveness of its close to an almost 30,000-member workforce. Diversity, inclusion, and belonging is a guiding principle of the organization to ensure its workforce reflects the communities it serves.

In support of our mission "to improve health every day," this is a tobacco-free environment. For positions that are available as remote work, Sentara Health employs associates in the following states: Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

Sentara Health is a Virginia and Northeastern North Carolina based not-for-profit integrated healthcare provider that has been in business for over 131 years. Offering hundreds of sites of care including 12 hospitals, PACE, home health, hospice, medical groups, imaging services, therapy, outpatient surgery centers, and an 858,000 member health plan. The people of the communities that we serve have nominated Sentara "Employer of Choice" for over ten years. U.S. News and World Report has recognized Sentara as having the Best Hospitals for 15+ years. Sentara offers professional development and a continued employment philosophy!