Physician Fellow

Job Title:Physician Fellow

Department/Location: Clinical Operations

Reports to: VP Medical Affairs

FLSA Status: Exempt

Direct Reports:

Company Overview

At Consensus Health, we believe better healthcare begins with a community of strong, independent providers delivering high quality, compassionate patient care with improved outcomes. As New Jersey’s fasting growing independent medical group, Consensus Health offers full clinical and operational integration with our value-based care programs, enabling providers to transform the healthcare delivery experience. In addition, Consensus Health owns and manages New Jersey’s oldest Independent Physician Association (“IPA”) with over 1,000 providers throughout the state. At Consensus Health we believe in fostering an environment of collaboration, participation, and respect. A cornerstone of that belief is a commitment to attracting talented and dedicated team members who work together for the common purpose of providing clinical excellence.

Consensus is committed to attracting, developing, and retaining talented people who are passionate about helping physicians and their staff deliver better care to patients and whose values align with ours. We empower our employees to bring the right solutions forward to strengthen the relationship between providers and patients and ensure that our staff are well served.

Position Summary

The Physician operates in a team with other clinic healthcare providers and support staff. The Physician provides patient medical care to all age groups in an office-based, multi-specialty group practice. In addition, the Physician provides diagnostic and therapeutic medical services, while making reasonable and sound medical assessments and treatment plans.

Duties and Responsibilities

The duties include, but are not limited to:

• Disease prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and recovery
• Treatment of acute illnesses
• Treatment of acute injuries
• Prescribes and administers medications, performs routine vaccinations, and provides advice regarding personal health and hygiene
• Requests necessary tests and follow-up visits and refers patients to specialists, as necessary
• Familiar with standard concepts, practices, and procedures within a particular field
• Relies on experience and judgement to plan and accomplish goals
• Performs a variety of tasks
• A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected
• Provides direction to both clinical and reception support staff
• Proper and complete medical documentation (without copy/paste) for all patient care in order to assure accuracy (above 80% with goal of 95%) of E/M coding – and closing/sign off after review of all patient charts in accordance with company policies. Failure to meet this essential job function can affect the eligibility for productivity/PCN (percent net collection) bonuses
• Proper and complete medical documentation (without copy/paste) for all patient care in order to assure accuracy of HCC coding. Failure to meet this essential job function can affect the eligibility for VBC bonuses
• Performs miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned

Qualifications or Education, Training and Experience

• Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathy (DO)
• Licensed in the state of New Jersey
• Board certified or Board eligible
• Completion of an accredited residency program in area of practice (i.e., family practice, internal medicine, or pediatrics)
• DEA controlled substances registration
• Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers (CPR/AED) certification
• Successful completion of CHC’s credentialing and privileging review upon hire and recredentialing as appropriate
• Strong computer skills with prior electronic medical record (EMR) use preferred
• Strong interpersonal skills to effectively communicate with patients, hospital personnel and community members
• Skills to perform patient treatment procedures for most acute illnesses or injuries

Remains calm and effective in high pressure and emergency situations