Senior Medical Director (Physician) - Geriatric Primary Care
Listed compensation
$240K - $270K
The week · per this posting · Monday – Friday
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Job Description
Open Position
Senior Medical Director - Geriatric Primary Care House Calls
Schedule
- Full-Time
- Monday to Friday
- 40 Hours per Week
- No Evenings
- No Weekends
- No Holidays
Compensation
- $240,000 to $270,000+ Starting Base Salary, negotiable dependent on experience
- Annual Performance-Based Bonus, 5% to 15% of Base Salary
- Mileage Reimbursement
- Malpractice Insurance
- Health / Dental / Vision Insurance
- Disability / Life Insurance
- Generous Paid Time Off
- Professional Expenses Reimbursed
- Annual CME Allowance
- Company Cell Phone
- 403b w/ Employer Match
- Many More Benefits Available
- Full Package Negotiable
LOCATION: Greensboro, North Carolina
Company Profile
This compassionate non-profit organization is dedicated to delivering convenient, high-quality care to patients in a variety of settings.
They currently boast a team of 11 physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants who, along with dedicated nursing, clinical, and administrative team members, ensure that patients receive the best medical care possible while working diligently to remove access barriers.
Their services include home-based primary care, palliative care, hospice care, chronic illness management, home health, counseling services, and more.
Position Description
The Senior Medical Director is a senior clinical executive and member of the organizational leadership team. The position is responsible for setting the overall clinical direction of the house call practice and Medicare GUIDE dementia care program, ensuring that care delivery aligns with the organization's mission, value-based strategy, and growth objectives.
The Senior Medical Director ensures clinical excellence, regulatory compliance, evidence-based practice standards, and measurable performance outcomes. The role partners with the Chief Operating Officer in a dyad framework, sharing accountability for quality, growth, financial sustainability, and regulatory compliance.
The overall areas of responsibility for the Senior Medical Director include:
- clinical leadership and strategy
- provider oversight and workforce development
- Medicare GUIDE program oversight
- regulatory and compliance oversight
- quality improvement and outcomes accountability
- population health and risk oversight
- operational and financial collaboration
This position will be approximately 60% direct patient care and 40% administrative leadership, with duties that include:
- maintain an active clinical practice within house calls and/or the GUIDE program
- participate in the house calls practice on-call rotation
- hold primary clinical authority of the house call practice and Medicare GUIDE programs
- supervise nurse practitioners and physician assistants
- interpret and modify clinical protocols / care pathways in alignment with standards
- oversee prescribing standards
- establish and revise documentation standards supporting billing integrity and compliance
- make clinical decisions in partnership with other leaders
The practice uses the AthenaCare EHR.
Requirements
- North Carolina medical license
- DEA
- Board Certification, relevant speciality (internal medicine, family medicine, geriatrics, etc.)
- 5+ years related clinical experience
- previous leadership experience strongly preferred
How to Apply
To apply for this position, please send your resume to Jenn Kunkel at jenn@chsrecruiting.com or call (773) 998-1272.
Please visit chsrecruiting.com for a full list of available opportunities at CHS Recruiting.
Key Responsibilities
The Senior Medical Director sets the overall clinical direction for the house call practice and Medicare GUIDE dementia care program, ensuring alignment with the organization's mission and value-based strategy. This executive role shares accountability with the COO for quality, growth, financial sustainability, and regulatory compliance across clinical leadership, provider oversight, and quality improvement.
Qualifications
- Education
- Professional certificate or licensure
- Experience
- 5+ years of experience
Certifications
Key Skills
Primary Care — Physician Career Context
Of the 50 active Primary Care listings this role was benchmarked against, 4% are remote, 54% have no call, 66% require no weekends.
The cost-of-living index for North Carolina is 94.3 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$255k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $270k in an average-cost state. 59.2% of North Carolina clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
CHS Recruiting holds silver-tier status on WeekdayDoc's Top Employers work-life index, composite score 79/100, 78 active listings.
Primary Care pay on WeekdayDoc is up 2.0% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).
Work-Life Balance Analysis
WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Senior Medical Director (Physician) - Geriatric Primary Care at CHS Recruiting a 6.4 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the Above average in Physician roles — ranked against 21,509 active Physician roles listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no weekend requirements, no night shifts.
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