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Part Time Primary Care Physician

Spruce Pine, NCOnsitePart TimePosted 2 months ago

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Required skills

Internal Medicine
Family Medicine
athena EMR
Value-based Care
high acuity members
in-home care
compliance requirements
at-risk panel of patients
clinical data
leading

Nice to have

sign-on bonus
student loan repayment
Medicare population
health fairs
conferences

Role summary

Hopscotch Primary Care is seeking a Part-Time Primary Care Physician to provide leadership and high-quality patient care in Spruce Pine and/or Burnsville, NC. This role involves delivering care within a comprehensive, interdisciplinary model, managing a dedicated patient panel with smaller daily patient loads (average 15 patients), and collaborating with a robust care team. Responsibilities include direct patient care (office visits, telehealth, wellness visits), team oversight, driving clinical excellence, process improvement, and fostering a positive culture. The ideal candidate has 2+ years of post-residency experience, is Board Certified in Internal Medicine or Family Medicine, and holds an active NC medical license. Experience with value-based care, managing at-risk patient panels, and using data to drive action is preferred. This position offers strong compensation, potential bonuses, and student loan repayment assistance.

About Hopscotch Primary Care

At Hopscotch Primary Care, we believe great healthcare should be accessible to all people across all communities. Today, almost 20% of Americans live in a rural community, yet only 11% of physicians practice in those same communities. We are on a mission to transform healthcare in rural America. We provide high-quality primary care tailored to meet the needs of our patients through our robust care model and comprehensive care team, delivering care in our clinics, and across settings, and wrapping resources around the patients who need them most.

Our patients and the care teams who serve them sit at the center of everything we do at Hopscotch. Hopscotch Primary Care takes a team approach to serve patient needs and provide the best care possible. Our goal is to provide the care each of us would want for ourselves or for our family members, in the right setting, and at the right time.

Today, we are serving thousands of patients in our value-based care model and the number is growing every day. If you want to bring your experience, skill and passion to make a lasting impact in healthcare, we’d like to meet you.

Join Us on Our Mission to Transform Primary Care! 

Hopscotch Primary Care takes a team approach to serve patient needs and provide the best care possible. Our goal is to provide the care each of us would want for ourselves or for our family members, in the right setting, and at the right time. The Hopscotch Care Team is responsible for delivering high-touch, high-quality care to patients, including coordination of care across different physicians and the broader healthcare continuum.

A robust community of thoughtful, talented physician leaders who want to transform healthcare through their experience, skill and cultural leadership

Smaller patient panels to allow time with patients and proactive investment in their health

Average of 15 patients per day

More time with patients: 40- and 20-minute visit types

Robust administrative and clinical support with a comprehensive care team that includes MAs, Clinical Documentation Specialists, RN Care Managers and Care Coordinators

Strong compensation and financial support

Base pay plus up to 15% in annual bonus

Consideration for sign-on bonus or student loan repayment up to $100,000

This position will be based at our Spruce Pine and/or Burnsville, NC locations.

What You'll Do 

As a Primary Care Physician, you will provide day-to-day leadership for the clinic teams and deliver high-quality care, an exceptional patient experience and a best-in-class culture, acting as a Champion of the Hopscotch Care Model and a Culture advocate for your team and your patients. Specifically, you will:

Provide high-quality patient care in the comprehensive and interdisciplinary care model of Hopscotch health to deliver best-in-class outcomes and results for your dedicated patient panel

Outperform against target metrics and outcomes, including patient experience, STARS/HEDIS, care coordination, utilization and cost of care, through collaboration and engagement of your clinical care team

Provide direct oversight of your clinical care team, including Hopscotch Advanced Practitioner, Medical Assistant, Care Manager, Community Health Worker and others

Proactively communicate across the care team and advocate for the patient, understanding patient needs, developing care plans and delivering care to enable positive outcomes

Deliver comprehensive primary care services to a dedicated panel of patients, including office visits and telehealth visits for routine and acute primary care issues. This includes delivery of all types of patient visits, including Annual Wellness Visits, as well as patient outreach, triage, and care in the community as needed

Develop trust with patients and caregivers, help them garner trust in broader care team, engage them to educate on care plans and strategies for wellness and prevention

Drive excellence with a “continuous-improvement” mindset, following evidence-based guidelines and innovating on care models that solve real problems for our patients

Set the curve for Care team through clear understanding and execution to deliver care in the Hopscotch care model, a commitment to results, quality and excellence and by executing against key workflows and processes to enable the model

Co-lead Daily Huddles and High-Risk Huddles in partnership with CMRN to prepare the care team to best meet the needs of your patients

Lead by example and drive execution across team for all critical elements of clinical workflows in an accurate and timely manner for preparation, delivery and follow through of patient visits, including documentation and coding

Actively participate in all Clinical Forums, providing feedback, driving action and ensuring that key discussion points and takeaways are cascaded to your clinic Providers and other team members as appropriate

Support integration, transformation, and on-going operational excellence at the clinic, including but not limited to comprehensive care model training, migration to athena EMR, renovations of the clinic, onboarding of new care teams roles, and reassignment of roles for the existing team members

Support the Hopscotch mission and vision through your leadership around talent and culture, clinical innovation and compliance/best practices to enable success

Talent and Culture:

Cultivate a culture of high performance, service to patients, and continuous improvement that values learning and a commitment to quality

Foster a culture of communication, collaboration, and positivity with a focus on results and accountability

Help attract, develop, and retain talent across the organization

Value-Based Care and Clinical Excellence:

Demonstrate commitment to value-based care and compliance in clinical leadership, ensuring standards are well-defined and met

Monitor and understand best practices and evidence-based approaches in care and work across Hopscotch team to incorporate best practices and new approaches to enable patient outcomes

Other Hopscotch Priorities:

Message concerns and risks regarding patient care, team, or culture to leadership and propose solutions

Act within the Hopscotch “Code of Conduct” at all times and live the Hopscotch mission and values

Represent Hopscotch Health in the community and provides community-based education, engagement, and participation in events such as health fairs/conferences

About You

You’ll be a great fit for this position if you have 2+ years of post-Residency experience. You must be Board Certified in Internal Medicine or Family Medicine, have an active, non-probationary North Carolina state medical license, and be authorized to work in the US. An ideal candidate will also have experience with and/or robust knowledge of:

Value-based Care and other innovative clinical models, specifically those that serve high acuity members

Medicare population, including in-home care as well as documentation and compliance requirements

Caring for “at-risk” panel of patients 

Using data and insights to drive action in a clinical setting 

Leading, teaching, and training others, in formal and informal ways

At Hopscotch Primary Care, we embrace diversity, invest in a culture of inclusion and positivity and encourage all to apply to join our team. You will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

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