Job Description:
Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
The following is a summary of the major functions of this individual's job. He or she may perform other duties, both major and minor, which are not mentioned below, and specific functions may change from time to time.
1. Provides daily physician management and treatment of patients at the Clinic/ Practice.
2. Provides clinical services to patients, including diagnosis, treatment and referral.
3. Participates in the establishment of office policies, procedures and medical protocol necessary to provide physician clinic services.
4. Appropriately refers patients to medical specialists.
5. Complies with Baptist Health Medical Group policies, procedures and pricing.
6. Utilizes program forms/computer system for charting
7. Complies with case management protocols.
8. Agrees to assist with the clinic/practice’s quality assurance and quality improvement plan.
9. Works with Administration to ensure that the program operates in a manner consistent with appropriate medical policy and current professional standards in specific area of care.
10. Participates in community events and periodic public relations calls as time permits. It is understood that, on occasion, these duties may fall outside of regularly scheduled office hours.
11. Maintains appropriate telephone contact with patients, payers and pharmacies.
12. Performs physical exams to include, but not limited to: Routine Examinations, Department of Transportation (DOT) examinations (dependent on clinic locations), and School/Sport Physicals, and other examinations as deemed necessary to serve our patient population.
13. May serve as Director for on-site Laboratory services if applicable to specific site.
Minimum Education, Training and Experience Required:
- Current valid & unrestricted license to practice in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and/or the State of Indiana.
- Current valid & unrestricted DEA registration number.
- Eligible at all times to be insured for professional liability insurance.
- Board Certified or Board Eligible in appropriate specialty.
- BCLS required.
Skills Required
- Current valid & unrestricted license to practice in Kentucky or Indiana
- Current valid & unrestricted DEA registration number
- Eligible for professional liability insurance
- Board Certified or Board Eligible in appropriate specialty
- Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) certification
What We Do
Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of nine hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 400 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics. Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky in a joint venture with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana. Baptist Health employs more than 23,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence. Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has nearly 1,500 providers, including more than 750 physicians and more than 740 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians. Learn more at BaptistHealth.com.
