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 in Missouri. This role involves achieving clinical outcomes, affordability goals, and growth targets in partnership with the health plan leadership team. The CMO will provide clinical insight into market data, implement tailored interventions, and build relationships with healthcare providers to simplify the healthcare experience and improve quality care.

Practice Info

• Flexibility to work remotely in Missouri
• 30% travel required within the assigned market

Responsibilities

• Achieve defined clinical outcomes, affordability goals, and growth targets in partnership with the health plan leadership team
• Provide clinical insight into market data and implement tailored interventions to address clinical trends and opportunities for the state or region
• Serve as a central health plan leader accountable to facilitate coordination with UnitedHealthcare and Optum national clinical and operational functions
• Actively engage and help drive performance with market-level quality, network, and compliance teams
• 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
• Inform and drive local and national affordability initiatives by applying healthcare economics insights and escalating local issues and trends

Compensation

• The salary for this role will range from $336,500 to $485,500 annually based on full-time employment
• Incentive and recognition programs
• Equity stock purchase
• 401k contribution

Benefits

• A comprehensive benefits package

Requirements

• Active and unrestricted Missouri Medical License
• Reside in, or be willing to relocate to MO; 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
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills and ability to influence in executive settings
• Superior presentation skills for both clinical and non-clinical audiences
• 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
• Solid data analysis and interpretation skills; KPI metrics driven
• Ability/experience in developing collaborative relationships with health system clinical leadership
• Proven ability to develop relationships with network and community physicians and other providers
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Capable to quickly become facile with UHC/UHG specific data systems
• Preferred: Prior health plan experience in similar leadership capacity
• Preferred: Advanced Business, Public Health, Medical Management degree
• Preferred: Solid team player and team building skills
• Preferred: Strategic thinking with proven ability to communicate a vision and drive results
• Preferred: Solid negotiation and conflict management skills
• Preferred: Creative problem-solving skills