Primary Care Physician – Virtual Primary Care Practice - Jefferson Health

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Job Details Primary Care - Physician – Virtual Primary Care Practice

Job Description Responsibilities: The Virtual Primary Care Physician (MD or DO) provides high-quality, comprehensive, relationship-based, longitudinal primary care to a panel of patients via a telehealth platform.

Jefferson’s Virtual Primary Care (VPC) practice is nationally recognized for offering best-practice primary care services, in an all-virtual environment*. The VPC practice is embedded within Jefferson Primary Care as a regional, non-profit academic health system dedicated to the needs of diverse communities, and is aligned with best-practice primary care quality and experience goals.

Physicians work within an interdisciplinary team including a dedicated practice manager, practice staff, integrated behavioral health services, population health supports, and social work.

VPC physicians, while focusing on empaneled patient care, also may assist with providing telehealth-based clinical care to patients not empaneled to them, such as transitions of care visits or supplemental access visits for practice-based primary care patients.  

*Please note that while this position is remote, there is a strong preference for candidates who reside in PA, NJ or DE.

Overview: • Primary Care for people ages 18 and older via telehealth environment • Comprehensive approach to care including preventive services, screenings, immunization recommendations; chronic disease diagnosis and management; acute and complex care needs • Whole-person approach to care, partnering with colleagues in integrated behavioral health, social services, and lifestyle medicine teams as appropriate • Collaborative approach to interprofessional team care • Performs and documents physical exam leveraging approaches appropriate to telehealth. • Orders, performs, and interprets appropriate diagnostic testing, and responds to results requiring further evaluation or investigation. • Formulates differential diagnoses by priority. • Engages/Collaborates with collaborative physicians when needed (i.e. diagnosis in question, patient not responding to treatment, etc.).;coordinates with and refers to specialists and/or a higher level of care as needed. • Complete professional billing in timely and accurate manner, in compliance with regulations.

Formulates Plan of Care • Identifies expected outcomes from diagnosis, and formulates and documents a plan of care to address preventive care, acute care, and chronic health care needs. • Utilizes evidenced-based practice guidelines and protocols in an individualized, dynamic plan of care that can be applied across the continuum. • Implements and modifies plan of care based on patient response, diagnostic testing, and specialist recommendations. • Prescribes diagnostic strategies and therapeutic interventions (as above).

Documentation • Telehealth visits are documented in EPIC system according to good clinical practice and compliance, regulatory, and billing requirements  • Provides timely documentation in Epic; meets compliance standards; and captures patient history, presenting problem, physical exam within limits of virtual care, diagnosis(es) and treatment/plan of care. • Signs/closes visit notes within 24 hours of the patient encounter.

Other Responsibilities • Reviews results of diagnostic studies in a timely manner and communicates follow-up plan to the patient • Reviews and addresses telephone and Epic portal messages (In-Basket) • Reviews specialist consults, recent inpatient summaries, and other patient information as appropriate • Cross-covers patient care needs as needed when other providers are out-of-office • Shares telephonic on-call responsibilities with practice team

Communication and Collaboration • Maintains ongoing communication and collaboration with office staff and interdisciplinary health care team. • Facilitates and communicates with patients, patient care team, and staff • Reports compliance concerns or patient safety issues/events.

Quality and Productivity • Engages with population health team to improve patient access and outcomes. • Conducts accurate clinical documentation and coding • Address care gaps, value-based care metrics, and other priorities for quality improvement as established by Jefferson Primary Care   • Meets target productivity, measured by work RVUs (relative volume units)

Professional Practice • Demonstrates Professional Practice behaviors • Engages in ongoing professional education to remain up to date in clinical knwoledge • Completes annual required health system learning activities • Maintains national board certification, state licensure and required continuing education, and membership in a professional organization as appropriate • Opportunities available to engage in research and education as per physician interest

Qualifications • Qualified applicants will hold a MD or DO degree, or equivalent • Board certified, or eligible, in Family Medicine or Internal Medicine. • Preference for at least 2 years of post-residency clinical experience • Licensure in PA and NJ, or ability to obtain by start date • Demonstrated commitment to health equity, to excellence in care including for medically and socially vulnerable populations, and to optimal patient experience • Candidates from backgrounds under-represented in medicine strongly encouraged to apply • Fluency in other languages, including Spanish, is welcome though not required.

Please contact Chandler Clemens ( chandler.clemens@jefferson.edu ) for further inquiry.

Work Shift Workday Day (United States of America)

Worker Sub Type Regular

Employee Entity Methodist Associates in Healthcare, Inc. (d/b/a Jefferson Community Physicians) Primary Location Address 1101 Market, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and hi

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