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Opportunities with Reliant Medical Group. When you join Reliant, you’ll be part of a community-based, multi-specialty, physician-led medical group. Everyone works collaboratively on a common purpose: improving the quality, cost and experience of health care. With the resources of a global health organization - Optum - behind us, we’re at the forefront of value-based care. Supported by a patient-centric business model - integrated care teams focus on the best patient care, rather than volume. Here, you’ll contribute to an exceptional patient experience. Discover a place where you can help shape the future of health care and do your life’s best work.(sm)

As a part of Optum Care, the largest network of medical groups in the country, Reliant Medical Group is seeking a Full Time Hospitalist to join our team in Worcester, MA. At Optum, we are transforming healthcare nationally while providing physician-led care locally.

Position Highlights:

• Census 12 to 14 on an average
• Scheduled will be Day Shifts
• 4 days a week: Tuesday – Friday
• 44 weeks per year to equal 176 shifts a year
• 8 weeks off per year, 8 weekends of back up
• We are unable to sponsor visas at this time
• Desirable and unique continuity hospitalist model
• Continuity partnership with Reliant Medical Group's PCPs, allows familiarity with the same patient panel and families
• Dedicated evening PA coverage already in place
• Dedicated night MD coverage already in place
• Moonlighting additional shifts available
• Teaching interaction with residents that may cover 50% of the census
• Closed ICU, SICU, CCU, managed by Intensivists-Specialists
• Commitment to quality care in a patient centered, team-based environment
• Continuity partnership with Reliant PCPs, allows familiarity with same patient panel, families
• Continuity based hospitalist practice model allows consistently high-performance, metrics in all domains, which gives long term job satisfaction
• Team spirit is exemplary and focused on team wellness

What makes an Optum Care organization different?

• Providers are supported to practice at the peak of their license
• We recognize that if you want to provide good care and do it well, you can’t do it alone – this is the foundation of the team-based care model
• The culture is one of clinical innovation and transformation
• Reliant is a top performer of the Quadruple Aim initiative in Massachusetts
• We are influencing change on a national scale while still maintaining the culture and community of our local care organizations

Compensation & Benefits Highlights:

• Compensation is based on quality, not quantity
• Dedicated CME Time & Allowance
• Sign-on bonus and relocation eligible
• Excellent PTO package
• Robust retirement package including employer-funded contributions
• Company-paid malpractice insurance and tail coverage
• Paid maternity/paternity leave
• Physician partnership opportunities with OptumCare 

About Reliant Medical Group

At Reliant Medical Group, transforming the delivery of health care across Central and Boston Metro-west Massachusetts is our passion. Founded in 1929, we are an established multi-specialty, physician led integrated healthcare delivery system, with 500 providers that care for over 325,000 patients throughout our 25 locations. Recognized nationally for an innovative, sustainable care model and advanced EHR platform, we offer a full range of outpatient primary care and over 30 different specialties including hospital medicine, comprehensive radiology services, and urgent care. 

Reliant Medical Group has a long history of commitment to value-based care and clinical excellence. The organization exceeds the 90th percentile in most HEDIS measures, is among the top provider groups nationally in patient experience and provides care at a cost well below market competitors. Reliant is also committed to the provider experience and understands that the best path to better patient care is by ensuring that providers and staff are happy, engaged, and productive.

Required Qualifications:

• BC/BE in Internal Medicine 
• Unlimited Licensure in the state of Massachusetts
• Active DEA License
• We are unable to sponsor visas at this time
• Full COVID-19 vaccination is an essential job function of this role. Candidates located in states that mandate COVID-19 booster doses must also comply with those state requirements. UnitedHealth Group will adhere to all federal, state and local regulations as well as all client requirements and will obtain necessary proof of vaccination, and boosters when applicable, prior to employment to ensure compliance. Candidates must be able to perform all essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working within a Team Care model
• Fluency in EMR systems & technology

Would you thrive with Optum Care?

• Do you practice evidence-based medicine?
• Are you seeking a practice focused on patient-centered quality care, not volume?
• Are you a team player – comfortable delegating and empowering teams?
• Are you constantly seeking better ways to do things?
• Do you want to be part of something better?

To protect the health and safety of our workforce, patients and communities we serve, UnitedHealth Group and its affiliate companies require all employees to disclose COVID-19 vaccination status prior to beginning employment. In addition, some roles and locations require full COVID-19 vaccination, including boosters, as an essential job function. UnitedHealth Group adheres to all federal, state and local COVID-19 vaccination regulations as well as all client COVID-19 vaccination requirements and will obtain the necessary information from candidates prior to employment to ensure compliance. Candidates must be able to perform all essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation. Failure to meet the vaccination requirement may result in rescission of an employment offer or termination of employment.

About Optum Care:

At Optum Care, we’ve found that putting clinicians at the center of care is the best way to improve lives. Our physician-led organization is one of the most dynamic and progressive health care organizations in the world, serving almost 20 million people through more than 64,000 aligned physicians and advanced practice clinicians. You will find our team working in local clinics, surgery centers and urgent care centers, within care models focused on managing risk, higher quality outcomes and driving change through collaboration and innovation. Learn more at http://www.workatoptum.com/provider.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: OptumCare is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employers and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. 

OptumCare is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.