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Associate Medical Director

Elevance Health
Houston, TX Full Time
POSTED ON 12/28/2024 CLOSED ON 1/21/2025

What are the responsibilities and job description for the Associate Medical Director position at Elevance Health?

Clinical Operations Associate Medical Director

Carelon Medical Benefits Management

Radiology Benefit Management/Utilization Review

Schedule: Monday-Friday 9AM-5PM Central Time

Location: Alternate locations may be considered. The ideal candidate will live within 50 miles of one of our Elevance Health PulsePoint locations.

A proud member of the Elevance Health family of companies, Carelon Medical Benefits Management, formerly AIM Specialty Health, is a benefit-management leader in Illinois. Our platform delivers significant cost-of-care savings across an expanding set of clinical domains, including radiology, cardiology and oncology.

The Clinical Operations Associate Medical Director responsible for supporting the medical management staff ensuring timely and consistent medical decisions to members and providers.

How You Will Make An Impact

  • Ensures timely completion of clinical case reviews for their board certified specialty.
  • Makes physician to physician calls to gather medical appropriate information in order to make medical necessity determinations for services requested.
  • Makes medical necessity determinations for grievance and appeals appropriate for their specialty.
  • Ensures consistent use of medical policies when making medical necessity decisions.
  • Brings to their supervisors attention, any case review decisions that require Medical Director review or policy interpretation.

Minimum Requirements

  • Requires an MD and Board certification in a medical specialty required.

Preferred Experiences, Capabilities, And Skills

  • 3 years post residency or fellowship clinical experience strongly preferred.
  • Familiar with Outlook, Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Office Suite products strongly preferred.
  • Advanced level computer skills preferred.

Please be advised that Elevance Health only accepts resumes for compensation from agencies that have a signed agreement with Elevance Health. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Elevance Health.

Who We Are

Elevance Health is a health company dedicated to improving lives and communities – and making healthcare simpler. We are a Fortune 25 company with a longstanding history in the healthcare industry, looking for leaders at all levels of the organization who are passionate about making an impact on our members and the communities we serve.

How We Work

At Elevance Health, we are creating a culture that is designed to advance our strategy but will also lead to personal and professional growth for our associates. Our values and behaviors are the root of our culture. They are how we achieve our strategy, power our business outcomes and drive our shared success - for our consumers, our associates, our communities and our business.

We offer a range of market-competitive total rewards that include merit increases, paid holidays, Paid Time Off, and incentive bonus programs (unless covered by a collective bargaining agreement), medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability benefits, 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, life insurance, wellness programs and financial education resources, to name a few.

Elevance Health operates in a Hybrid Workforce Strategy. Unless specified as primarily virtual by the hiring manager, associates are required to work at an Elevance Health location at least once per week, and potentially several times per week. Specific requirements and expectations for time onsite will be discussed as part of the hiring process. Candidates must reside within 50 miles or 1-hour commute each way of a relevant Elevance Health location.

The health of our associates and communities is a top priority for Elevance Health. We require all new candidates in certain patient/member-facing roles to become vaccinated against COVID-19. If you are not vaccinated, your offer will be rescinded unless you provide an acceptable explanation. Elevance Health will also follow all relevant federal, state and local laws.

Elevance Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, citizenship status, color, creed, disability, ethnicity, genetic information, gender (including gender identity and gender expression), marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status or any other status or condition protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process may contact elevancehealthjobssupport@elevancehealth.com for assistance.
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