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Portland, Texas

Physician Lead

Family MedicineIncludes callNo nightsFull-Time

Listed compensation

$292k-$342k

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Job Description

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The Physician Lead combines direct patient care with clinical leadership responsibilities to execute clinical and operational strategies across multiple centers, ensuring high-quality, value-based care.

This role reports directly to the Market CMO, Primary Care, or Associate Medical Director (AMD) and provides leadership to a team of clinicians within a designated market, serving also as an extension of the clinical dyad model in partnership with operational leaders.

Together, the Physician Lead and operational leaders provide administrative oversight and advance the model of care, drive performance, and execute on individualized initiatives.

Responsibilities, leadership scope, direct patient care time allocation, and outcomes may vary as determined by market clinical and operational leadership.

Leadership & Organizational Management

Oversee other clinicians, which include Physicians, Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioners (ARNP), and Physicians Assistants (PA)

In conjunction with clinical leadership, actively participate in interviewing, hiring, and supervising clinical teams to staff and develop a high-quality clinical team with strong engagement, patient-first culture, and talent retention

Closely engage and communicate with clinicians and care teams, conducting regular onsite center visits, holding regular individual 1:1s and clinician pod meetings, and actively participating in leadership meetings

Deeply understand, support, and improve primary care clinician performance through understanding of individual & care team context, effective use of data, and effective coaching of clinicians and care teams

Familiarity with clinical performance dashboards and data tools to support performance analysis, outcomes focus, and targeted strategy development in collaboration with direct leader

  • Foster a culture of continuous learning, mentorship, and professional growth among clinical teams
  • Assisting team with PTO management, CME time and reimbursement requests
  • Conduct performance reviews and real-time feedback in partnership with direct leader
  • Assisting in resolution of inquiries, requests, and complaints from patients and clinical staff

Clinical/Patient Management

Foster a robust patient-centered and value-based clinical vision, strategy, and culture locally that orients care teams around excellence in patient care, teamwork, and outcomes

Deliver leading clinical performance in patient experience, quality of care, clinical outcomes, and avoidable utilization

Periodically review clinician charts to identify opportunities in care, ensuring clinical assessments are accurate and that performance improvement and coaching initiatives are precise

Participate as a Back-up On-call Physician

Identify critical issues for high-risk patients during case reviews & other forums, and model and drive clinical excellence

Conduct root cause analysis of care opportunities from both individual, team, and systems perspectives and partner with clinical and operational colleagues to improve high-reliability care as a team

Ensure clinicians effectively co-manage high-risk episodes of care and patients with partnered Care Integration Team (CIT) resources and programs for transitions of care management (TCM), high-risk patient management (HRPM), and social determinants of health (SDOH) efforts, improving clinical outcomes and avoidable utilization

Monitor and manage patient care and initiatives to improve team-based key performance indicators (KPIs), such as patient experience via Net Promoter Score (NPS) and Medicare clinical quality via HEDIS, meeting local and organizational goals

Personally deliver high-quality primary care and demonstrate a high degree of patient care ownership and clinical excellence in age-friendly senior primary care including health promotion & prevention, disease management, effective specialist & hospital co-management, and complex care management

Spend 50-80% of time on direct patient care, with remaining time dedicated to administrative responsibilities. The percentage of time may vary by market needs and by staffing levels throughout the year

Support clinical quality performance improvement in areas such as MRA, Stars, total cost of care to include prevention of unnecessary utilization through provider education and coaching

Promote team-based care delivery and foster collaboration across interdisciplinary teams

Optimizing network of preferred specialists – to optimize delivery of care for ongoing maintenance and cost saving opportunities

Dyad Partnership

Dyad with operational leaders (CAs and/or Associate Operations Director) and Shared Services partners to align on clinical and operational goals, and strategic planning

Maintain regular communication to align on performance, strategies, and team communication and management, ensuring unified decision-making and consistent messaging for cohesive leadership

Work together towards common goals that support the mission, vision, values, and overall patient experience outcomes, managing clinic/ dynamics and engagement

Partner with AOD and/or CA on strategic and operational insights and monitor clinical & financial performance and metrics

  • Review clinician schedules and incentive plans with AOD to align with patient care access and management goals
  • Collaborate with dyad partners in organizing team building activities
  • Collaborate to manage performance/behavioral/disciplinary issues
  • Partnering with HR Business Partners to execute HR initiatives

Use your skills to make an impact

Required Qualifications

  • MD/DO
  • 8 or more years of clinical experience
  • 2 or more years of project leadership experience
  • Licensure requirements of the state of jurisdiction
  • Graduate of accredited MD or DO program of accredited university
  • Board Certification in Family Medicine, Internal Medicine or Geriatric Medicine

This role is considered patient facing and is part of Humana/Senior Bridge's Tuberculosis (TB) screening program. If selected for this role, you will be required to be screened for TB.

Must be passionate about contributing to an organization focused on continuously improving consumer patient experiences

Preferred Qualifications

  • Active and unrestricted DEA license
  • Medicare Provider Number
  • Medicaid Provider Number
  • Minimum of three to five years directly applicable experience preferred
  • Experience managing Medicare Advantage panel of patients with understanding of Best Practice in a coordinated care environment in a value-based relationship environment.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Pay Range

The compensation range below reflects a good faith estimate of starting base pay for full time (40 hours per week) employment at the time of posting. The pay range may be higher or lower based on geographic location and individual pay will vary based on demonstrated job related skills, knowledge, experience, education, certifications, etc.

$292,000 - $341,500 per year

This job is eligible for a bonus incentive plan. This incentive opportunity is based upon company and/or individual performance.

Description of Benefits

Humana, Inc. and its affiliated subsidiaries (collectively, “Humana”) offers competitive benefits that support whole-person well-being. Associate benefits are designed to encourage personal wellness and smart healthcare decisions for you and your family while also knowing your life extends outside of work.

Among our benefits, Humana provides medical, dental and vision benefits, 401(k) retirement savings plan, time off (including paid time off, company and personal holidays, paid parental and caregiver leave), short-term and long-term disability, life insurance and many other opportunities.

About Us

About Conviva Senior Primary Care: Conviva Senior Primary Care provides proactive, preventive care to seniors, including wellness visits, physical exams, chronic condition management, screenings, minor injury treatment and more.

As part of Humana’s Primary Care Organization, which includes CenterWell Senior Primary Care, Conviva’s innovative, value-based approach means each patient gets the best care, when needed most, and for the lowest cost.

We go beyond physical health – addressing the social, emotional, behavioral and financial needs that can impact our patients' well-being.

About CenterWell, a Humana company: CenterWell is a leading healthcare services business focused on creating integrated and differentiated experiences that put our patients at the center of everything we do. The result is high-quality healthcare that is accessible, comprehensive and, most of all, personalized.

As the largest provider of senior-focused primary care, a leading provider of home healthcare and a leading integrated home delivery, specialty, hospice and retail pharmacy, CenterWell is focused on whole health and addressing the physical, emotional and social wellness of our patients.

CenterWell is part of Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM). Learn more about what we offer at CenterWell.com.

Equal Opportunity Employer

It is the policy of Humana not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status.

It is also the policy of Humana to take affirmative action, in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and VEVRAA, to employ and to advance in employment individuals with disability or protected veteran status, and to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements.

This policy shall apply to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, upgrading, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, recall, termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation and selection for training, including apprenticeship, at all levels of employment.

Key Responsibilities

The Physician Lead provides clinical leadership and direct patient care across multiple centers to drive value-based outcomes and operational strategy. They oversee clinical teams, manage performance metrics, and partner with operational leaders to ensure high-quality patient care.

Requirements

Candidates must hold an MD or DO degree with board certification in Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, or Geriatric Medicine. A minimum of 8 years of clinical experience and 2 years of project leadership experience are required.

Qualifications

Education
Doctoral or professional degree (postgraduate degree)
Experience
10+ years of experience

Key Skills

Team managementPerformance coachingData analysisQuality improvementOperational managementClinical documentationCase managementRegulatory complianceInterdisciplinary collaboration

Family Medicine — Physician Career Context

Center Well ranks #5 of 15 employers hiring Family Medicine on WeekdayDoc by average advertised pay, and holds silver-tier status on the Top Employers work-life index, composite score 70/100, 662 active listings.

In Texas, the Family Medicine weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$280k (51 salary observations; 307 listings), vs ~$264k nationally (1,239 salary observations; 5,666 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2025-12-01 through 2026-10-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.

Of the 50 active Family Medicine listings this role was benchmarked against, 8% are remote, 52% have no call, 58% require no weekends.

Family Medicine pay on WeekdayDoc is down 1.9% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).

The cost-of-living index for Texas is 97.1 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$317k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $326k in an average-cost state. 57.7% of Texas clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Location & Logistics

Texas has no state income tax, which can significantly increase take-home pay compared to high-tax states. At the posted ~$317k midpoint, that is roughly $13k–$22k a year versus a typical 4–7% state rate.

Top Family Medicine Jobs

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Salary Distribution48 jobs · 36 employers

12
<$280k
6
$280k-325k
20
$325k-370k
7
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3
$415k+

Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks46 jobs · 36 employers

401k / retirement match
91% this job
CME allowance
59% this job
Sign-on bonus
57% this job
Relocation assistance
37%
Loan repayment
33%

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Work-life snapshot

median 6.2this job 5.1
Better work-life than 40% of Family Medicine listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 2,482 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • No nights
  • Includes call

Living in Portland

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$250k≈ 0.9× annual pay
Typical market rent
$1,563/mo≈ 6% of gross pay
Residents’ average commute
21 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
92.7
State income tax
None
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · Corpus Christi, TX metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

Ratios use this listing’s gross annual pay. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.

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Benefits & Perks

Medical, Dental, and Vision Benefits
401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
Paid Time Off
Company and Personal Holidays
Paid Parental and Caregiver Leave
Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
Life Insurance
Bonus Incentive Plan