Chief Medical Officer - Dental

The Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of Dental Services provides clinical leadership and ensures high-quality dental services to patients of Aria Care Partners. Translates administrative imperatives to the clinical staff and provides a clinical perspective to administrative vision and strategy. Participates in the development, implementation, and monitoring of policies, procedures, and protocols. Be an integral member of Quality Improvement and serves as a champion in the quality patient-centered system. The primary job function is to provide clinical leadership and oversee patient care working independently and interdependently with our organization's other departments and providers to ensure integrated care for patient-centered outcomes.

The Chief Medical Officer of Dental Services provides an integrating force linking all aspects of clinical care: Utilization, Quality and Safety, Credentialing, Physician acquisition and development.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Work with the senior management team to develop strategies for sustainability and market success.
• Directly responsible for training and continued training.
• Holding doctors accountable to quality patient care and set standards protocols and minimums.
• Involvement in mergers, consolidations, or systems integrations is critical in strategizing the organization's successful transition to patient health management.
• Provide support for current medical teams and can identify and nurture future leaders to ensure the sustainable delivery of quality care by the organization.
• Have an excellent knowledge of healthcare quality and safety and be able to lead quality initiatives.
• Must have a strong working understanding of metrics and medical analytics and apply metrics to a meaningful ongoing professional practice evaluation process.
• Clear understanding of accurate clinical documentation within patient medical records. This understanding will be translated into the application and maintenance of accurate clinical documentation protocol, along with a utilization review process.
• Good understanding of the physician compensation processes, productivity incentive packages, and the concept of fair market value, both for independent and employed physicians and for individuals and groups.
• Provide the organization with important clinical perspectives on financial decision making regarding clinical department budgets, purchases of technology or equipment, the acquisition of group practices, and other investment opportunities.
• Identify possible new service lines, evaluate them, present them to the senior management team, and then accept accountability for successfully operationalizing them.
• Oversee the recruitment, hiring, training, and development of new doctors.
• Guide the development of new doctors from the traditional role of the autonomous practitioner in a doctor-centered system, to becoming a member of a health care team that focuses on the coordination of care in a patient-centered system. Including the engagement and alignment of physicians with the organizational goals in providing safe, quality, and cost-effective care to patients.
• Direct and implement electronic health records to run the clinical informatics efforts. The CMO must again demonstrate the ability to engage doctors and solve safety and quality problems, in this case with evidence-based order sets and IT solutions.
• Other duties as assigned.

Education & Training Requirements

• DMD or DMS degree required
• Current active dentist license required in state of residence
• Minimum of two years Long-Term Care experience highly preferred
• This position can be located outside of the HQ office in Kansas
• Frequent Travel Required

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