VP of Medical Management, Risk & Quality - Denver, CO (878405)

Company: UnitedHealth Group
Location: Colorado Springs
Posted on: September 12, 2020

Job Description:

Improve the lives of others while doing your life's best work. SM VP of Medical Management, Risk & Quality - Denver, CO (878405) OptumCare in Colorado is offering patients throughout Denver and Colorado Springs, Colorado compassion, innovation, and high quality care. The group is headquartered in the greater Denver, CO area.

OptumCare in Colorado is seeking an accomplished VP of Medical Management located in Denver, CO. This is an outstanding opportunity for an executive who will have responsibilities for long-term planning and execution of the Colorado market Medical Management, Risk and Quality programs.

Additionally, provides leadership to and is accountable for the performance and direction through multiple layers of management and senior level professional staff including direct oversight of Director of Medical Management, Senior Director of Quality, ACO, and Risk, and PharmD. Provides long-term planning and oversight to ensure activities are appropriately integrated into strategic direction and operations, as well as the mission and values of OptumCare.

The successful candidate shall be an experienced medical manager who will oversee planning, organizing, and directing the administration of all Central Medical Management, Risk, Quality and ACO Programs and alignment with related market clinical based programs. The ideal candidate should also carry exceptional clinical medical management experience with a goal of sharing a vision of unparalleled delivery of care through teamwork, collaboration, innovation and persistence for excellence.

You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

M.A. degree or equivalent work experience

Medical Management experience

Strong knowledge of Risk, Quality and ACO program models

Preferred Qualifications: Clinical medical management experience

Advanced Practice Clinician or RN case management experience

We offer patient care that is compassionate, appropriate and effective for the treatment of health problems and the promotion of health. Our employees work with professionalism, as manifested through a commitment to carrying out professional responsibilities, adherence to ethical principles, and sensitivity to a diverse patient population.

We run a systems-based practice, as manifested by actions that demonstrate an awareness of and responsiveness to the larger context and system of health care and the ability to effectively call on system resources to provide care that is of optimal value.

Careers with Optum. Here's the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make the health system work better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the world's large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity to do your life's best work.(sm)

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

OptumCare is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

Requisition Number 878405

Job Title VP of Medical Management, Risk & Quality - Denver, CO

Job Family Medical and Clinical Operations

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Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

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