Medical Director, Extended Care
Listed compensation
$307k-$460k
The week · per this posting · weekdays assumed
Ask the employer about the work setting, call expectations, weekend coverage and time off.
Job Description
Job Description Summary
The Regional Medical Director, Extended Care is a senior physician leader responsible for the clinical, operational, and strategic performance of an assigned team. This role provides leadership across multiple care teams, provider teams, and interdisciplinary clinical functions to ensure the delivery of exceptional patient outcomes within a value-based care model.
This leader is accountable for translating enterprise strategy into execution while ensuring clinical excellence, regulatory compliance, and sustained provider performance.
Partnering with medical services and other support teams, they are ultimately responsible for driving quality outcomes, total cost of care performance, utilization management, provider engagement, and clinical excellence across multiple teams.
The role is accountable for advancing population health strategies, supporting provider performance, and ensuring regulatory and quality compliance within the region.
CareMore’s model is deeply rooted in population health, proactive care coordination, and high-risk member management, so this role is highly focused on outcomes, prevention, and reducing avoidable utilization.
This is often a people leader role over multiple physician leaders, not just individual clinicians.
How will you make an impact & Requirements
Key Responsibilities
- Clinical Leadership
- Provide physician leadership across multiple clinics, markets, teams, or regions
- Establish clinical standards, workflows, and evidence-based care practices
- Ensure consistency in care delivery across all accountable teams
- Lead regional medical strategy aligned with enterprise goals
- Serve as the senior physician escalation point for clinical issues
- Provider Leadership & Talent Management
- Lead and develop physicians leaders, advanced practice providers, and clinical leaders
- Conduct performance management, coaching, and development planning
- Support succession planning and physician leadership pipeline development
- Partner with Talent Acquisition on provider hiring and workforce planning
- Lead physician engagement and retention initiatives
Value-Based Performance Accountability
Own Regional Performance For
HEDIS
STAR Ratings
- RAF / risk adjustment readmission reduction emergency department utilization inpatient admissions length of stay total cost of care
- Lead interventions for high-risk and chronic populations
- Drive medical expense improvement initiatives
- Partner with care management and UM leadership
- Operational Partnership
- Support market growth strategy and geographic expansion
- Partner with network, pharmacy, case management, and UM
- Lead operational change initiatives
- Support workflow redesign and transformation efforts
- Provide clinical leadership during restructures, new market launches, and regional transitions
- Financial & Business Accountability
- Accountable for clinical cost performance across assigned region
- Monitor provider productivity and panel performance
- Identify trends in utilization and cost leakage
- Develop and support budget and staffing decisions
- Drive margin improvement through clinical interventions
- External Relationship Management
- Build strategic relationships with health plan partners
- Engage community providers and referral networks
- Represent CareMore in market-level clinical partnerships
- Support provider relations and physician network engagement
- Serve as physician-facing leader in community and payer meetings
Compensation Range
- $306,907.00 to
- $460,361.00
The anticipated base salary range represents the Company's good-faith estimate of the compensation it reasonably expects to pay for this position at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, skills, qualifications, geographic location, internal equity, and business needs.
Requirements
This is a senior physician leadership role requiring extensive experience in managing clinical teams and population health strategies. Candidates must demonstrate expertise in regulatory compliance, financial accountability, and driving performance improvements in high-risk member management.
Qualifications
- Experience
- 10+ years of experience
Key Skills
Internal Medicine — Physician Career Context
CareMore Health ranks #8 of 25 employers hiring Internist on WeekdayDoc by average advertised pay, and holds silver-tier status on the Top Employers work-life index, composite score 72/100, 11 active listings.
Of the 50 active Internal Medicine listings this role was benchmarked against, 8% are remote, 32% have no call, 70% require no weekends.
| Measure | This job | Market |
|---|---|---|
| Cost-of-living adjusted pay | ~$347k in purchasing power | California index 110.7 (US = 100)BEA Regional Price Parities (2024) |
| Internal Medicine listings in California | 195 active | 1,382 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026 |
| Work setting | on-site | peers: 8% remote · 32% no call · 70% no weekends50 benchmarked listings |
| Sign-on & loan repayment | not stated | California Physician listings: 33% state a sign-on bonus (median $100k) · 30% offer loan repayment1,000 active listings, Nov 2026 |
| Internal Medicine hiring demand | #3 of 28 specialties | postings stay open a median 38 days · 33% state a sign-on bonusWeekdayDoc Hiring Index, October 2026 · 579 postings, 472 closed |
| New Internal Medicine listings | 578 in the last 30 days | 354 the 30 days before (+63%)U.S., first seen on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026 |
| Internal Medicine pay trend | +4.4% vs prior quarter | —through Oct 2026 |
| CareMore Health | silver tier, 72/100 · #8 of 25 for pay | Top Employers work-life index11 active listings |
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50 matches · ranked by paySalary Distribution
50 jobs · 39 employersAnnual compensation range
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