Lead Physician Advisor at St. Joseph's Health
St. Joseph's Health · Paterson, United States Of America · Onsite
- Senior
- Office in Paterson
The Physician Advisor collaborates with Care Managers and Attending Physicians to align on the level of care, patient billing status, and potential barriers to patient discharge. Serves as the senior physician leader for utilization management, care progression, and documentation alignment across the health system. Works in close partnership with care management, CDI and medical staff leadership to build an oversee the physician advisor program and drive throughput, length of stay reduction, and documentation integrity.
Responsibilities
Program Development and Leadership
- Build and lead the system-wide Physician Advisor program
- Serve as liaison between Care Management, CDI, Revenue Cycle, and medical staff.
- Define structure, workflow, and metrics for program success.
Utilization Management and Clinical Alignment
- Review medical necessity, admission status, and 2-midnight compliance.
- Perform concurrent review of complex and extended LOS cases.
- Lead payer discussions, denials, and appeals.
- Identify opportunities to reduce avoidable delays and optimize care transitions.
Educations and Physician Engagement
- Educate and supports physician documentation for appropriateness of admission and continued stay, severity, and morbidity/mortality.
- Lead discussions promoting a culture of urgency and accountability around care progression.
Data, Quality and Performance
- Track and report utilization KPIs (LOS, CMI, Observation %, Denials).
- Use data to drive education and continuous improvement.
Qualifications
Education/Experience Requirements
- Active member of a Medical Staff with > 5 years’ experience.
- Broad range of medical/clinical knowledge.
- Expertise in utilization management, state/federal regulations, private payer contracts.
- Dedication to quality, safety, efficiency, satisfaction, and cost reduction.
- A good communicator with strong interpersonal, leadership, communication, and teaching skills.
- Ability to collaborate with front-line staff and executive leadership.
Licensure/Certification Requirements
- MD or DO with active New Jersey medical license.
About Company
St. Joseph’s University Medical Center is an academic tertiary care medical center and state designated trauma center, located on the Paterson campus, regularly accepts referrals of difficult or unusual cases from other hospitals and physicians and performs both complex and routine procedures.
The Medical Center offers a full complement of specialty and subspecialty services including ambulatory, behavioral health, cardiovascular, emergency/trauma, internal medicine, neuroscience, oncology, orthopedic/spine, rehabilitation, surgical specialty, women’s health, imaging and pediatrics.
The nursing team at St. Joseph’s University Medical Center, which includes St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital, has held the Magnet Award for Nursing Excellence, the profession’s highest honor, since 1999. They are also recipients of the prestigious 2010 Magnet Prize™ - one of only 8 Magnet-designated hospitals to ever receive The Magnet Prize, and the only one worldwide to receive the 2010 award.
Company
St. Joseph’s Health is recognized for the expertise and compassion of its highly skilled and responsive staff. The combined efforts of the organization’s outstanding physicians, superb nurses, and dedicated clinical and professional staff have made us one of the most highly respected healthcare organizations in the state, the largest employer in Passaic County, and one of the nation’s “100 Best Places to Work in Health Care”.
Benefits Eligibility: (Full-time and Part-time Employees-over 20 hours a week)
- Competitive salary*
- Robust benefits with health, dental, Rx and vision plans
- 403b retirement plan options with company match**
- Health & Wellness*
- Non-Profit Health System – eligible for Federal Student Loan Forgiveness
- PTO, and paid holidays
- Tuition reimbursement
- Employee Assistance Program
- LTD : Long Term Disability
- Life Insurance Options
- Onsite Day care Program
*Available for Per Diem Employees and Part-time Employees working under 20 hours per week.
**403b Company Match not applicable for Per Diem Employees and Part-time Employees working under 20 hours per week.
Pay transparency: St. Joseph’s Health provides a salary range to comply with New Jersey Law. The rate of pay for each position will be determined based on a variety of factors including the candidate's relevant experience, qualifications, skills, etc.” The salary range does not include incentives, differential pay or other forms of compensation.
