CMCS Medical Director Position

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Center for Medicaid, CHIP and Survey & Certification (CMCS), Baltimore (Woodlawn), Maryland is seeking to hire a full-time Medical Director to serve as the senior medical advisor and medical consultant to the Director and Deputy Directors of CMCS and other key staff and managers within the Center on the Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). This is a new, leadership position focusing on improvements in service delivery and payment and the impact of federal and state policies on the provider community and provider performance as part of the Center’s overall efforts to Improve care and population health while lowering costs through such improvements.

Duties of the position include but are not limited to the following:

· Provide medical expertise to central and regional office staff regarding clinical issues related to the design and development of strong primary care delivery systems for prevention, early diagnosis, and treatment and develops strategies for coordination of primary care and specialty care to achieve quality health outcomes.

· Lead or participate in the development of reimbursement and payment policies that support quality care, value-based health care purchasing, provides incentives to providers to improve access, efficiency, and improved health outcomes, and work to adjust payment level for preventable errors. In this regard, the Medical Director will work closely with the Federal Coordinated Health Care Office.

· Contribute to the development and implementation of nationally endorsed performance measures for transparency in assessing provider performance, informing beneficiary choices and decisions, and determining the application of payment incentives.

· Collaborate with States and localities, national organizations, advocacy groups, etc. on reducing health care disparities through the assessment of health care data and the promulgation of best practices on how to reduce such disparities.

· Advise on the development and implementation of a beneficiary-centered health information technology infrastructure and quality data collection system that supports quality reporting and the improvement in health outcomes.

Please let us know if you are interested in the position by submitting your resume to Tracey Mummert at tracey.mummert@cms.hhs.gov by August 31, 2011.

Qualification and determination of grade level will be not be made until prior to any offer of employment.
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