Addiction Medicine Physician
At a glance
Addiction Medicine Physician role posted by Provider Healthcare, a recruiter. Sacramento, CA · full-time · $224,000–$283,000 a year.
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What you'll do
- Provide outpatient addiction medicine care and build treatment plans around mental health, substance use, functioning, and related conditions
- Work with patients and families to set care goals, coordinating with multidisciplinary teams and primary care providers
- Provide at least 30 patient contact hours each week and directly supervise mid-levels
- Train staff on psychiatric or addiction-related issues, and keep clinical records accurate for care and billing
- Support quality improvement, clinic policy compliance, referrals, and development of services for patient needs
What you bring
- You hold a California MD or DO license and have completed an approved residency
- You are board-certified in internal medicine, family medicine, or psychiatry
- You have a California DEA certificate before your start date and CPR certification
Who this fits
This full-time, daytime outpatient role suits a physician with a California license who provides addiction medicine care. You’ll need to meet a 30-hour weekly patient-contact minimum and directly supervise mid-levels. Spanish fluency, addiction medicine board eligibility or certification, and FQHC experience are preferred.
From the recruiter
Job Type Full Time
Schedule Days
Pay $224k - $283k
Work Location Outpatient
Job ID: 60474
Job Description
A Sacramento based client is seeking a motivated and compassionate family medicine or internal physician to join a collaborative, outpatient practice. An ideal candidate should value practicing evidence-based medicine and have an addiction medicine specialty.
Required Qualifications
- CA medical license as an MD or DO
- Completion of an approved residency program
- Board certification in internal medicine, family medicine, or psychiatry (APP/MD)
- CA DEA certificate before start date
- CPR certification
- Spanish fluency (preferred)
- Board eligible/certified in Addiction Medicine (preferred)
- Experience with FQHC (preferred)
Responsibilities
- Provides outpatient addiction medicine services.
- Provide direct clinical care in addiction medicine.
- Develop outcomes-based treatment plans of care that address mental health, addictions, functional impairment, and co-occurring addictive and/or medical disorders
- Engage the patient and family to develop treatment plans that address identified goals
- Provide a minimum of 30 patient contact hours per week
- Champion a model of integrated care that focuses on the full spectrum of patient health through close collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams
- Consult with primary care providers to assist with ongoing management of the behavioral health needs of their patients
- Develop and lead staff education in psychiatric and/or addictive issues
- Direct supervision of mid-levels
- Participate in relevant and ongoing professional training
- Responsible for accurate and timely documentation necessary for patient care and billing.
- Responsible for assuring quality medical care delivered to all patients.
- Responsible for understanding and maintenance of Quality Improvement Program indicators as directed by the Leadership for the medical department.
- Responsible for understanding and complying with the Standards of Care and policies for the Medical Clinic.
- Responsible for understanding and complying with the implementation of medical clinic policies to ensure appropriate medical follow-up of patients and medical specialty referrals.
- Understands and follows medical operations in compliance with applicable state and local laws, regulations and policies.
- Understands and monitors systems for compliance as necessary. Provides necessary and timely communication to Medical Leadership when issues of compliance arise, and complies with a corrective strategy.
- Understands and follows policies and procedures relative to medical provider scheduling, schedule changes, template development, etc., coordinating with efforts with the Practice Manager. Promptly communicates problems and issues in these areas to the Medical Leadership.
- Assists other medical and general staff, in developing and designing new clinical services, as appropriate to One Community Health patient needs.
- Responsible for attending all appropriate meetings as directed by the Medical Leadership.
- The Addiction Clinician is responsible for quality medical services to One Community Health patients. They are responsible for compliance with applicable laws, regulations and policies pertaining to medical practice, clinic operations and licensing.
About Provider Healthcare
Provider Healthcare is a prominent healthcare recruitment firm that places highly qualified and skilled healthcare professionals in excellent employment opportunities across the country. Our diligent team of recruiters and client representatives specialize in permanent placement and locum tenens opportunities in all settings of medical practice such as hospitals, outpatient clinics, home health care, and government facilities. Provider Healthcare is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action, Disability, and Protected Veteran employer and all applicants will be equally considered for hire.