Associate Director Of Value Based Care (MD Required)

  • Full-Time
  • Somerville, MA
  • Mass General Brigham(PHS)
  • Posted 3 years ago – Accepting applications
Job Description

Associate Director of Value Based Care (MD Required)

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The Opportunity:

Associate Medical Director, Population Health Management and Value-Based Care

Population Health Management (PHM), part of the new Value Based Care division, implements an innovative model of care delivery that improves the health of patients while lowering the overall costs of care. PHM includes best practices and solutions to enhance the patient experience, improve outcomes, and provide better organized and more personalized care to our patients. In addition to our own insurance entity, Mass General Brigham providers contract with other commercial and public payers in risk contracts. Our total covered lives have grown to ~700,000.

This Associate Medical Director, in partnership with PHM administrative leaders, will develop the strategy and monitor our performance in our in our risk contracts, lead change, and support creating a performance management process for the PHM department.

The Ideal Candidate:

  • Clinical Practice: 5-10 Years of direct patient care.
  • Administration/Management
    • 2-3 years of experience in Health Care Delivery System.
    • 2-3 years of experience in Clinical leadership (ex. quality review, peer review, group/practice management, hospital teams).
  • Medical Management or Care Management
    • 5+ years of knowledge/experience in managed care (consultant, medical director, discharge planning).
  • You are seeking great opportunity to transition into an administration role, working under an amazing mentor in an evolved healthcare environment.
  • Proven ability to work as a member of an interdisciplinary team. Ability to collaborate effectively with stakeholders across entities and across disciplines.
  • Leadership skills, including demonstrated ability to influence physicians.

To Be Considered:

  • MD or DO degree and current licensure and board certification.
  • Candidates with post-graduate degrees (e.g., MBA, MPH, MMM) preferred.
  • At least three years clinical patient care experience as a general internal or family physician with acute care, hospitalist experience.
  • 4+ years full-time clinical practice experience.
  • Preferred experience running Value-Based Care programs, designing and deploying care pathways for at risk-bearing providers, building and deploying analytics to understand how to monitor performance of Value-Based Care programs and ensure highest value for patients and providers.
  • Experience with population health quality metrics including STAR/HEDIS, healthcare outcomes, health plans and provider networks.

Why MGB – Population Health

As a not-for-profit organization, Mass General Brigham is committed to supporting patient care, research, teaching, and service to the community by leading innovation across our system. Founded by Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, Partners HealthCare supports a complete continuum of care including community and specialty hospitals, a managed care organization, a physician network, community health centers, home care and other health-related entities. Several of our hospitals are teaching affiliates of Harvard Medical School, and our system is a national leader in biomedical research.

We’re focused on a people-first culture for our system’s patients and our professional family. That’s why we provide our employees with more ways to achieve their potential. Mass General Brigham is committed to aligning our employees’ personal aspirations with projects that match their capabilities and creating a culture that empowers our managers to become trusted mentors. We support each member of our team to own their personal development—and we recognize success at every step.

Our employees use the Mass General Brigham values to govern decisions, actions and behaviors. These values guide how we get our work done: Patients, Affordability, Accountability & Service Commitment, Decisiveness, Innovation & Thoughtful Risk; and how we treat each other: Diversity & Inclusion, Integrity & Respect, Learning, Continuous Improvement & Personal Growth, Teamwork & Collaboration.


  • Medical Degree (MD) is required.
  • MBA or Master’s Degree in a health related field.
  • At least 5+ years of clinical practice and/or management experience in healthcare.
  • Experience with strategic planning and/or value-based care.
  • Ability to navigate a large complex organization.

Skills, Abilities, and Competencies

  • Proven ability to work as a member of an interdisciplinary team.
  • Ability to collaborate effectively with stakeholders across entities and across disciplines.
  • Leadership skills, including demonstrated ability to influence physicians.
  • Excellent interpersonal, communication, negotiation conflict resolution and planning skills.
  • Ability to give frequent and sometimes unrehearsed internal and external presentations.
  • Ability to lead teams.
  • Excellent quantitative, analytical and technical skills.
  • Solid understanding of the health care environment, both at the national and state level, to anticipate issues/risks impacting programs.
  • Take on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy and enthusiastic attitude.

Currently remote

  • Professional office setting located in Assembly Row, Somerville, MA. Requires travel locally to other Partners’ sites. Reliable access to transportation to travel between sites for business purposes is required.
EEO Statement


Mass General Brigham is an Equal Opportunity Employer & by embracing diverse skills, perspectives and ideas, we choose to lead. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, sex, age, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, military service, genetic information, and/or other status protected under law.


Primary Location MA-Somerville-MGB Assembly Row Work Locations MGB Assembly Row 399 Revolution Drive Somerville 02145 Job MD/PHD/Fellows/ PostDocs Organization Mass General Brigham(PHS) Schedule Full-time Standard Hours 40 Shift Day Job Employee Status Regular Recruiting Department PHS Population Health Management Job Posting Aug 5, 2021

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