Overview:
Exciting Opportunity for an Associate Vice President of Regional Operations!
Preferred Residency: Maryland, Virginia, Ohio
Responsibilities:
The Associate Vice President (AVP) will lead a profitable and comprehensive business and growth strategy in the assigned region, executing the vision, goals, and direction to achieve objectives. The AVP works closely with national, regional, and practice leadership to drive optimal organization dynamics, financial performance, operational efficiency, physician, and hospital contracting, and quality and safety oversight. This includes ensuring positive and collegial relationships with hospitals, system C-suite executives, physicians, and all company employees. The AVP is responsible for the oversight of Operations Managers and Practice Administrators or Assistants to enable those teams to carry out optimal practice operations functions. Specific responsibilities include region assessment and development in all areas, interface with sales, marketing, and growth teams, and regional medical officers. The AVP will also serve as the region liaison for Managed Care, Revenue Cycle Management, and work to drive optimal Shared Services support for the practices. The AVP is responsible for optimal practice growth and performance.
- Responsible for maintaining positive and collaborative hospital leadership relationships.
- Leads negotiation of agreements with physicians and hospitals related to new and ongoing business operations.
- Develops strategy and plans for profitable business in the region in alignment with organizational strategy.
- Effectively assesses assigned region and develops plans for growth as well as drives strategic initiatives for all practices including diversification, expansion, or creation and approves candidates for acquisition.
- Assesses, scopes, and mitigates risks to the business.
- Responsible for ensuring safe daily operations and contract adherence.
- Responsible for top and bottom-line performance of assigned region, through budget development, monitoring practice performance and efficiency, review of monthly financials and monitoring practice productivity and cost containment strategies.
- Develops and approves business development models.
- Works with Clinical services and Specialty Medical Officers SMOs to drive safety and quality initiatives.
- Monitors practice performance and efficiency through operations team and review of monthly financials while monitoring practice productivity and cost containment strategies.
- Responsible for managed care and revenue cycle oversight to ensure responsible teams are achieving best practices and goals.
- Assures optimal delivery of Pediatrix Shared Services support (legal, people services, revenue cycle, finance, physician services, etc.), and fosters the adoption of Pediatrixs mission, vison, and values.
Qualifications:
Education:
Bachelor's degree (B.A.) from a four-year college or university; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Master's Degree preferred
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- A minimum of 7 years experience in financial management and analysis including development of pro forma, contracting, business development, business development and physician relations
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to negotiate and build relationships with physicians, physician groups, other healthcare professionals and hospital partners; Experience in successfully leading and motivating a team
- Critical thinker with the ability to logically evaluate all aspects of situations and problems to arrive at optimal solutions
- Strong negotiation skills with the ability to find collaborative and positive outcome
- High degree of personal accountability, emotional intelligence, energy and entrepreneurial mindset; experience leading operations in a multi-state healthcare organization.
- Up to 50% travel required, typically within assigned region; Maryland, Virginia, Ohio
- Preferred Residency: Maryland, Virginia, Ohio
Benefits and Compensation:
Benefits for Full Time employees and qualified dependents:
- Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance
- Progyny Fertility Benefits
- Teladoc Health and Second Opinion Services
- 401(K) Thrift Program & Sharing Plan**
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) 15% discount*
- Basic Employee; Spouse; Child Life Insurance
- Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D)
- Employee Optional Life and AD&D
- Short & Long Term Disability
- Pre-Tax Health Savings Accounts (HSA)
- Employee and Dependent Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
- Parental Leave Benefit
- Sick Pay Bank
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Group Aflac Policies
- Identity Theft Protection
- Employee Charitable Fund
- Care.com
- Continuing Education Assistance
- Various Discount Programs
*Part Time Regular employee classifications also receive this benefit
**Available to part-time regular and part-time casual employees aged 21 and over
About Us:
Pediatrix Medical Group is one of the nations leading providers of highly specialized health care for women, babies and children. Since 1979, Pediatrix has grown from a single neonatology practice to a national, multispecialty medical group. Pediatrix-affiliated clinicians are committed to providing coordinated, compassionate and clinically excellent services to women, babies and children across the continuum of care, both in hospital settings and office-based practices. The groups high-quality, evidence-based care is bolstered by significant investments in research, education, quality-improvement and safety initiatives.
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Pediatrix is an Equal Opportunity Employer:
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.