Physician, Dermatology

Optum/Unity Health Network - The largest independent multi-specialty physician network in Northeast Ohio. Our infrastructure enables us to provide extensive primary care services and diverse specialty care offerings while removing non-medical business functions from our clinical staff, allowing them to concentrate on care delivery. Our team is growing, and we are looking for more health care professionals who want to be part of an organization that is driven by excellence. You can be part of a dedicated health care team that provides high quality and timely patient-centered services. In return, we will provide you with competitive opportunities that are driven to change the future of health care delivery and your career. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together. 

Unity Health Network Dermatology practice is growing  Our clinical team is seeking a colleague with an entrepreneurial spirit, who shares their passion for high quality, patient-centered care and is excited by the opportunity for continued growth. 

With on-site state of the art equipment, we offer comprehensive dermatological assessments and diagnosis of common conditions, biopsies, cryodestruction, injections, simple excisions, hot/cold sculpting, hair removal and more. 

At Optum, we are transforming healthcare nationally while providing physician-led care locally.

Position Responsibilities:

• Provide care that is compassionate, appropriate, and effective for the treatment of dermatology care related health problems
• Compliance with all coding and documentation requirements
• Practice evidence-based medicine
• Outpatient 
• Practices in accordance with the respective state laws and regulations governing the practice of advanced practice nursing
• Establishes and maintains effective relationships with members and their legal representatives, facility staff, PCPs, and other collaborating physicians/providers
• Completes follow-up and post-hospital assessments according to documented standard operating procedure
• Provides counsel, support, and education to facility staff
• Supports FCMs in developing and providing in-service educational programs to facility staff
• Participates in management meetings that include, but may not be limited to:
  • Weekly case conference reviews
  • Monthly staff meetings
  • Schedule Joint Operating Committee meetings
  • Quarterly Quality Improvement Committee meetings
  • Continuing education/journal club programs
• Implements HEDIS measure campaigns and other quality initiatives as directed by Corporate Health Services to ensure the highest standards of care and to promote the improvement of care management and delivery
• Requires participation in clinical on-call program as plan expands
• Keeps current on relevant medical and nursing research, technology, and related issues by attending continuing education courses, professional meetings, and journal reviews
• Perform related duties as necessary and other duties as assigned

Position Highlights

Our physicians provide comprehensive Dermatology care including Biopsy, Cryologic & Dermatological Surgery, Superficial Radiation Treatment, Cancer Treatment within a Physician-led, patient centered team-based environment, offering a value-based practice model with a diversified patient base

• Large referring base
• Teaching opportunities
• Support by the Optum Centers of Excellence network includes
  • More accurate diagnoses
  • Higher survival rates
  • Health care that is planned, coordinated, and provided by a team of experts who specialize in your condition and regularly work together
  • Fewer complications

Compensation & Benefits Highlights:

• Optum’s robust compensation and benefits package includes:
  • Financial stability and support of a Fortune 5 Company
  • Competitive compensation model
  • 401k Plan
  • CME Time & Allowance
  • Excellent PTO package
  • Retirement package including employer funded contributions
  • Company paid malpractice insurance.
  • Short term/Long term Disability
  • Stock Purchase Plan

Required Qualifications: 

• Unrestricted medical licensure in the state of Ohio, or able to obtain
• Active and unrestricted DEA License, or ability to obtain
• Board certified M.D. or D.O. Dermatology 
• Maintenance of privileges with no restrictions at hospital where procedures will be performed

Preferred Qualifications

• Two years clinical experience

Opportunities with Unity Health Network, an OptumCare partner. 

Unity Health Network is the largest multi-specialty physician network in Northeast Ohio and the leading comprehensive health care group in the greater Portage, Medina, and Summit County region

The multi-specialty group offers patient-centered care with services including family practice, dermatology, general surgery, infectious disease, internal medicine, kidney disease and hypertension, neurology and neuroscience, orthopedic surgery, otolaryngology, pediatrics, physical medicine, podiatry, psychiatry, pulmonology, rheumatology, critical care, and sleep medicine.

You will 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. 

About Optum:

At Optum, we have found that putting clinicians at the center of care is the best way to improve lives. Our physician-led organization is one of the most dynamic and progressive health care organizations in the world, serving almost 130 million people through more than 78,000 aligned physicians and advanced practice clinicians. You will find our team working in local clinics, surgery centers and urgent care centers, within care models focused on managing risk, higher quality outcomes and driving change through collaboration and innovation. Learn more at http://www.workatoptum.com/provider.

What makes an OptumCare organization different?

• Providers are supported to practice at the peak of their license
• We recognize that if you want to provide good care and do it well, you can’t do it alone – this is the foundation of the team-based care model
• The culture is one of clinical innovation and transformation
• We are influencing change on a national scale while still maintaining the culture and community of our local care organizations

Unity Health Network physicians provide continual care services through hospitals in Summit, Portage Medina, and Cuyahoga counties, including Summa-Akron City, Cleveland Clinic-Akron General, Western Reserve with primary care physicians and specialists in Akron, Beachwood, Cuyahoga Falls, Fairlawn, Hudson, Medina, Ravenna, Stow, Streetsboro, Tallmadge, Twinsburg, and Uniontown.

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.