About Quartet Health 

Quartet is a purpose driven value-based behavioral healthcare company, building the nations leading behavioral health home. We deliver integrated care & better outcomes to improve the health of communities across America. Quartet is a trusted partner of health insurance plans, health systems, community behavioral health centers, certified community behavioral health clinics, & federally qualified health centers in 36 states across the country. We identify people in need of care & connect them directly to high quality behavioral care providers, including Quartets own medical group. 

At Quartet, our values guide the way that we work together, starting with our commitment to putting patients first, & our shared focus on collaboration & innovation, so that we together can improve lives, one person at a time. 

Quartet is backed by top investors like Oak HC/FT, GV (formerly Google Ventures), F-Prime Capital Partners, Polaris Partners, Deerfield Management, Centene Corporation, Independence Health Group, & Echo Health Ventures. 

Our Benefits

We're proud to offer the following benefits to all clinicians:

• Competitive compensation
• 100% cost coverage for all required licensing/credentialing fees
• IT equipment & support
• Mental health benefits via our EAP, with up to 5 free counseling sessions per concern

We offer additional benefits to our team members working full time:

• A generous accrued PTO policy in addition to paid holidays & paid maternity leave
• Robust medical, dental & vision insurance plans
• A 401(k) plan with employer match
• 100% employer-paid life insurance, short-term & long-term disability insurance
• Annual continuing education unit (CEU) budget & time off
  
  

About the role: 

Quartet medical directors serve a key role in helping lead our collaborative, multidisciplinary care teams in our Whole Health program. This program is focused on patients with serious mental illness (SMI), & our program brings a collaborative approach to meeting each patients medical, behavioral, & social needs. The teams include advanced practice clinicians, therapists, care coordinators, social workers, peers, psychiatrists, network managers, & case managers. Together this team is responsible for providing coordinated, patient-centered care for an intimate panel of patients. 

As a Quartet medical director, you will co-manage & provide clinical supervision for a longitudinal panel of patients with advanced practice clinicians. You may also independently carry a small panel of high-risk, complex patients. You will remove barriers to accessing care & bring care to our patients seeing them in the home, community, & virtually. In collaboration with our APCs, you will ensure comprehensive holistic care, chronic disease management, excellent preventative care & wellness, & prompt urgent care as needed. Our smaller panel sizes, paired with robust support from a multi-disciplinary team, means that you will be able to spend more time with patients & have a greater impact on their health & well-being. 

We expect up to 50% of your time may be spent providing direct clinical care, with the rest of your time will be spent in a clinical supervisory & management capacity (e.g. case conferences, external provider communication, etc).

Clinical responsibilities will include: 

• Provide oversight of the care team, inclusive of advanced practice clinicians, to ensure exceptional, evidence-based, & patient-centered care 
• Serve as the primary clinician for a small panel of high risk, complex patients Perform home & community-based follow-up & urgent care visits, as well as virtual visits in the care of your co-managed patients 
• When needed, performing annual wellness visits & patient assessments to obtain a comprehensive biopsychosocial view of patients health, which includes addressing quality gaps in care 
• Facilitating multidisciplinary case rounds, which includes guiding the teams to create appropriate patient-centered care plan that address root drivers of health & ensure execution of the care plan 
• Collaborate with external providers & community-based organizations to advocate for patient care aligned with their goals 
• Provide clinical coverage as needed, including performing home-based follow-up & urgent visits when appropriate 
• Participate in weekend & off-hours on-call schedule to address patients urgent clinical needs 
• Ensure timely & appropriate documentation within our electronic medical record & systems that support care for our patients

Managerial responsibilities will include: 

• • Ensuring timely, accurate, & appropriate documentation for APC visits & visits by other clinicians 
  • Ensuring quality gap closure for your co-managed panel of patients. 
  • Performing 1:1 in-person observations as well as case & chart reviews on a regular basis 
  • Coaching & training advanced practice clinicians in clinical care, workflows, EHR documentation, & multidisciplinary team collaboration 
  • Participating in workflow, policies & procedures improvement & implementation 
  • Participating in interviewing, hiring, & training of clinicians & members of the care team 
  • Be a source of inspiration, driving culture & articulating the impact of our program on improving the lives of our patients 

Desired skills & experience: 

Required 

• Medical Doctor (M.D.) or Doctor of Osteopathy (D.O.) Graduate 
• Active Internal Medicine or Family Medicine Board Certification
• Active medical license & DEA Controlled Substance Registration in New Jersey. X-waiver licensure (for buprenorphine prescribing) is a plus but not required 
• Certified in Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers 
• 3+ years of clinical experience in providing primary care in an internal medicine, family medicine, or geriatric medicine setting 
• Comfort & experience in working within an electronic medical record 
• Valid unrestricted driver's license & access to an insured vehicle for daily use 

Preferred 

• Reside in the greater New Jersey area (which may including bordering cities), with knowledge of the New Jersey market & willingness to travel across the state 
• Experience within value-based care models 
• Fellowship trained in Geriatrics, Addiction Medicine, Palliative Care, are welcome but not required 
• Experience & passion for caring for individuals with complex chronic medical, behavioral & social needs in a multidisciplinary, integrated, or collaborative model 
• Experience & comfort engaging individuals with behavioral health conditions, inclusive of those with serious mental illness 
• Experience with co-managing patients with advanced practice clinicians & with home-based models of care 
• Passion to provide high quality care to all patients using an evidenced based approach 
• Energized by the idea of being part of a new, innovative model of care, & enjoys continuously learning & adapting workflows & processes to improve care 
• Excellent communication skills, & ability to work collaboratively to coach & mentor clinical & non-clinical members of the care team