Remote Physician Advisors Nationwide

As a remote physician advisor, you will provide significant value to the sites that you support. Remote physician advisors provide our hospital Clients with 24/7 fast case reviews, cost savings, and high ROI on level-of-care status changes and denials prevented.

Sound’s Remote physician advisors benefit from the flexibility, leadership experience, and extensive training and education that this position offers. Many Sound remote physician advisors go on to become hospital leaders and continue to advance in their careers.

Leadership career with attractive benefits

• Flexible schedule
• Comprehensive onboarding and mentorship program
• CME allowance
• Comprehensive healthcare coverage
• Extensive continuing education resources

About the role

• Be part of a small pod of physician advisors assigned to each hospital to improve relationships and feedback
• You are responsible for utilization management activities for the hospital partner
• Serve as liaison to providers, and case management and compliance to improve the accuracy of clinical documentation improvement efforts
• Improve documentation and eliminate unnecessary secondary reviews for the hospital
• Provide support on status determinations to our partner hospitals, allowing hospitalists and case managers to focus on patients
• Compensation range for full-time (160 hrs): $164-$278k

Requirements

• MD or DO licensure with board certification (base specialty) recognized by ABMS or ABQAURP
• Utilization-specific training from ABQAURP (The American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians), or equivalent within 12 months of hire
• Proficient in Word and different EMR systems, while also willing to learn new technologies
• Strong communication skills, multi-tasking, and time-management skills
• Minimum of 3-5 years of inpatient medicine and Advisory experience required
• Hospitalist, emergency medicine, or intensivist experience required
• Clinical documentation improvement (CDI) experience preferred
• Appeals and peer-to-peer experience preferred
• Schedule: Weekends only – Minimum of 2 full weekends per month (Option for 4 weekends)

At Sound Physicians, we are inspired by our bold mission and vision to improve the quality and lower the cost of healthcare in the US. Together we go beyond the work – forging lasting colleague relationships, challenging each other, and championing exceptional care for the nation’s sickest patients. Our physician advisors are experts in the best practices for clinical documentation, workflows, concurrent and secondary reviews, and performance improvement. Sound Physicians provides physician advisors with extensive training and experience that gives them expertise in the nuances of status across payers, requirements of appropriate documentation, and utilization management.