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Physician-Physician Utilization Management Advisor (PUMA)
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 7 days ago
About the Role
The Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center serves as the primary health care provider for more than 151,000 Veterans in southeast Texas. Houston exudes a cosmopolitan and down-home vibe together that lets the residents of the country's fourth-largest city and third-largest county (Harris) know that there's no place quite like Houston. The city attracts visitors and transplants with a wonderful mix of world class arts, booming business, pro sports and award-winning cuisine.
What You'll Do
- →VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package.
- →VHA Physician Total Rewards.
- →Proactively partner with all staff in developing organizational systems for Care in the Community (CITC) using lean management principles to measure quality initiatives for facility performance effectiveness.
- →Responsible for monitoring and advancing patient safety quality standards and utilization management for the Care in the Community (CITC) Department.
- →Serves as the Lead for all committees related to Community Care.
- →Serves as a vital resource and advisor for programmatic, clinical or other crucial Veterans health issues and inquiries.
- →Represents MEDVAMC Community Care on National Committees (i.e. weekly VHA Consult PI call and Field Advisory call) and serves on other groups in MEDVAMC or VISN as needed.
- →Ensures provision of comprehensive care for the target population through the utilization of interdisciplinary teams, care management and application of evidence- based clinical practices.
- →Ensures implementation of annual Integrated community line specific performance measures for Network-level evaluation to aid in the development of efficient and effective delivery of services.
- →Maintains accountability within the service line by 1) monitoring various metrics specific to the specialty; 2) analyzing and developing actions to improve metrics; and 3) standardizing workload expectations for clinicians/providers.
- →Coordinates program improvement through (a) Leveraging relationships with facility, VISN and national leadership (b) didactics and other learning modalities; and (c) Site visits.
- →Plans for future access points, taking into consideration the geographic distribution of the target population and including analysis of disease prevalence.
- →Fosters interdisciplinary input into service line evolution.
- →Implements and oversees Network-wide virtual care strategies.
Requirements
- ✓Citizenship; non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
- ✓All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment.
- ✓Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
- ✓Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
- ✓Must be proficient in written and spoken English.
- ✓Subject to background/security investigation.
- ✓Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Must pass pre-employment physical examination.
- ✓Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
- ✓You may be required to serve a probationary period.
- ✓Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
- ✓Degree of Doctor of Medicine or an equivalent degree resulting from a course of education in allopathic medicine or osteopathic medicine.
Personality Fit
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Job ID: 7441370c-d393-4774-8f04-28c027007b35
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