Physician Administrator

Job Type

Permanent

Specialty

Chief Medical Officer, Specialty Care, BILH Medica

State

MA

Location

MA – Cambridge, MA

Description

Location:
Cambridge, MA

Cambridge, Massachusetts is a world-renowned hub of innovation, academia, and healthcare excellence, home to prestigious institutions and a vibrant, intellectually stimulating community. With easy access to Boston's rich cultural offerings, outstanding dining, and historic neighborhoods, Cambridge offers an exceptional quality of life for healthcare professionals seeking both professional growth and personal fulfillment.

Facility:
This is a large, integrated health system operating across both community and academic medical centers throughout the greater Boston region. The organization supports a broad employed specialty physician and advanced practitioner enterprise, with strong partnerships across multiple hospital entities, academic medical centers, and faculty physician groups, creating a dynamic and collaborative environment for clinical and administrative leadership.

Opportunity:
Physician Administrator

Job Details:

• Serve as the senior clinical leader for the employed specialty physician and advanced practitioner enterprise within the Medical Group Specialty Care division
• Report directly to the President of the Medical Group
• Accountable for clinical quality, safety, patient experience, workforce engagement, program development, and operational and financial performance
• Oversee all aspects of the specialty care clinical enterprise, establishing performance expectations and developing leadership acumen among specialty care medical directors
• Ensure high-quality clinical outcomes, patient experience, and risk management standards across all specialty practices
• Collaborate with community hospital CMOs to align specialty program strategy, credentialing standards, service line growth, and clinical policies
• Maintain active working relationships with clinical and administrative leadership at academic medical centers and faculty physician groups
• Partner with the CMO of Primary Care to ensure coordinated care delivery, integrated referral pathways, and a unified physician and APP culture
• Lead specialty physician and APP recruitment strategy, partnering with HR and physician recruiters to attract high-caliber candidates
• Design and implement retention programs tailored to specialty physician needs including practice environment, workload balance, and professional development
• Oversee onboarding and integration of new specialty physicians and APPs to accelerate time-to-productivity and long-term engagement
• Partner with senior leadership to develop, maintain, and govern specialty physician and APP compensation plans ensuring market competitiveness and regulatory compliance
• Bring direct expertise in wRVU-based productivity compensation, base salary benchmarking, quality incentive design, and call coverage compensation
• Contribute clinical and operational credibility to business cases, proformas, and ROI analyses supporting specialty program growth investments
• Oversee the specialty care budget process including volume, revenue, and expense planning in partnership with the President, COO, and CFO
• Drive specialty care access improvements, lead time reduction, and referral pathway optimization in collaboration with primary and hospital partners
• Oversee population health and value-based care performance for specialty care
• Ensure clinic operations comply with applicable accreditation, statutory, and regulatory requirements
• Assess emerging technologies and clinical innovations that enhance specialty care outcomes and champion evidence-based practice transformation
• Maintain a minimum of 0.25 clinical FTE with active board certification and clinical practice in a specialty aligned with the division's scope
• M.D. or D.O. required with current Massachusetts licensure
• Board certification in a relevant specialty required with active clinical practice
• Minimum of 7-10 years of clinical practice experience required
• 5-7 years of senior clinical leadership experience in a complex, matrixed health system or large specialty group practice required
• Demonstrated experience working across community hospital and academic medical center boundaries strongly preferred
• Direct experience with specialty physician compensation plan design including wRVU productivity models and MGMA/AMGA benchmarking required
• Advanced leadership training and/or MBA an asset

Compensation:
Employed salary with benefits.

Job ID

65948599