For over forty years, we’ve dedicated ourselves to keeping our community healthy through forward-thinking services and patient-centered care. Now, Southwest Medical Associates, part of OptumCare®, is pleased to offer you a chance for a rewarding health care career.

Southwest Medical was founded in Las Vegas in 1972 and is Nevada’s largest multispecialty medical group with over 370 local health care providers in over 30 health care centers, including seven convenient care centers, six urgent care centers, two outpatient surgery centers and two lifestyle centers catering to older adults, plus access to a network of 630 providers throughout southern Nevada.

Our full spectrum of health care services includes Southwest Medical Hospice, improving the quality of life for people experiencing a terminal illness. We bring care and comfort home to our patients through Home Health Services, Home Care Plus and Total Home Care and Palliative Care, part of the continuum of care for all stages of a person's life.

We’re looking for someone with the motivation and heart to provide experienced, compassionate, innovative and high-quality care to patients throughout Southern Nevada.

The Associate Medical Director, Primary Care, is a member of the leadership team and responsible for the quality, cost and service levels of health care provided by the Primary Care division. This position works closely with the Medical Director to direct, manage and evaluate primary care practice operations. This position is also responsible for planning, implementing and monitoring of activities in direct support of patient satisfaction, quality improvement, utilization and quality management. This position is 60 percent clinical outpatient and 40 percent administrative.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership and communication for primary care physician leaders, physicians and clinical staff
• Responsible for effective interviewing, selection, orientation, development and retention of primary care providers
• Partner with medical management staff to promote clinical process improvement and access enhancement
• Ensure effective quality assurance and risk management processes
• Ensure customer satisfaction and compliance with regulatory standards
• Ensure cost effective delivery of health care within the primary care practice management operations
• Ensure that all NCQA and other accreditation standards are met
• Ensure ongoing professional medical management development programs
• Establish direct relationship with key departments including pharmacy, underwriting, medical adjudication, claims and provider relations, and assist with issues and/or concerns

Required Qualifications:

• Must have an active and unrestricted medical license in the State of Nevada or ability to obtain prior to employment
• Board certification in a postgraduate clinical specialty
• Full COVID-19 vaccination is an essential job function of this role. Candidates located in states that mandate COVID-19 booster doses must also comply with those state requirements. UnitedHealth Group will adhere to all federal, state and local regulations as well as all client requirements and will obtain necessary proof of vaccination, and boosters when applicable, prior to employment to ensure compliance. Candidates must be able to perform all essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation

Preferred Qualifications:

• Minimum 3 years of experience in primary care medical group practice
• Two years management experience and prior executive oversight experience in a clinical setting
• Experience in medical utilization management, medical quality assurance, quality improvement techniques, risk management and a prepaid environment preferred
• Extensive knowledge of primary care operations; strong knowledge of management practices, human relations, consensus building and collaborative ability
• Must have strong oral and written communication techniques and be professionally respected by peers; leadership ability; demonstrated expertise in the primary care setting

To protect the health and safety of our workforce, patients and communities we serve, UnitedHealth Group and its affiliate companies now require all employees to disclose COVID-19 vaccination status prior to beginning employment. In addition, some roles require full COVID-19 vaccination as an essential job function. UnitedHealth Group adheres to all federal, state and local COVID-19 vaccination regulations as well as all client COVID-19 vaccination requirements and will obtain the necessary information from candidates prior to employment to ensure compliance. Candidates must be able to perform all essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation. Failure to meet the vaccination requirement may result in rescission of an employment offer or termination of employment.

Southwest Medical is headquartered in the greater Las Vegas, NV area.

Careers with Optum. Here's the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make the health system work better for everyone. So, when it comes to how we use the world's large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity to do

Nevada Residents Only: The salary range for Nevada residents is $210,000 to $325,000. Salary Range is defined as total cash compensation at target. The actual range and pay mix of base and bonus is variable based upon experience and metric achievement. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, UnitedHealth Group offers benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with UnitedHealth Group, you’ll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: OptumCare is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employers and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

OptumCare is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.