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Physician-Physician Utilization Management Advisor (PUMA)
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 114 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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