E&I Market Chief Medical Officer

UnitedHealthcare is seeking a Market CMO to serve as the local senior clinical executive for their line of business. This role involves achieving clinical outcomes, affordability goals, and growth targets in partnership with the health plan leadership team. The Market CMO will provide clinical insight into market data, implement tailored interventions, and build relationships with healthcare providers to advance evidence-based medicine and support best practices in healthcare delivery.

Practice Info

• Serve as the local senior clinical executive for their line of business
• Accountable to facilitate coordination with UnitedHealthcare and Optum national clinical and operational functions
• Engage and help drive performance with market-level quality, network, and compliance teams
• Work remotely from anywhere within the U.S.

Responsibilities

• Achieve defined clinical outcomes, affordability goals, and growth targets
• Provide clinical insight into market data and implement tailored interventions to address clinical trends and opportunities
• Build and deepen relationships with area hospitals, physicians, and other health care providers
• Advocate for UnitedHealthcare's clinical value story, evidence-based medical policies, and member health with government/state regulatory entities, professional and medical society chapters, employers, and as part of external communications and media relations
• Provide subject/specialty based clinical expertise and leadership to UCS and the enterprise, as needed
• Lead targeted clinical inventions to address local market trends and needs, and support on-the-ground alignment with national utilization management programs
• Serve as the local clinical point of contact for physicians, systems, and other care providers and with UnitedHealth Networks colleagues
• Maintain a strong working knowledge of all government mandates and provisions, working across the enterprise to implement and maintain compliant clinical programs and procedures

Compensation

• The salary for this role will range from $238,000 to $357,500 annually based on full-time employment
• Incentive and recognition programs
• Equity stock purchase
• 401k contribution

Benefits

• A comprehensive benefits package

Requirements

• Active and unrestricted MN/WI Medical License
• Reside in, or be willing to relocate to MN/WI; within proximity to UHC corporate offices
• Board Certified in an ABMS or AOA specialty
• 5+ years clinical practice experience
• Solid knowledge of managed care industry
• Familiarity with current medical issues and practices
• Solid knowledge of health care utilization data and analytics
• Proven ability to identify an improvement opportunity through data, implement a solution and achieve measurable impact
• Ability to travel within the assigned market-30% travel required
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Preferred: Prior health plan experience in similar leadership capacity
• Preferred: Advanced Business, Public Health, Medical Management degree