About This Role
The Physician provides and coordinates patient care in cooperation with other members of the department clinical staff, abiding by Ochsner's core values. This role involves examining patients, diagnosing clinical conditions, and prescribing appropriate treatments and follow-up care.
Responsibilities
- Examine the health of a patient to help make proper diagnosis of clinical conditions and prescribing medication, treatments, and follow-up care as required
- Prescribe pharmaceuticals, other medications, and treatment regimens to treat identified and documented medical conditions
- Provide care directly and indirectly by working with other members of an interdisciplinary team to formulate treatment plans
- Timely record patient encounters in Electronic Health Record
- Request further medical evaluations and make referrals, as necessary
- Understand and commit to the highest standards of professionalism; willingness to hold others to those standards
- Commit to collaboration with all members of the department to provide quality patient care
- Ensure accurate coding of all patient visits
- Comply with policies, procedures, bylaws, processes of privileging/credentialing, and standards of care that are conducive to the provision of high-quality medical services consistent with accreditation standards, state and federal licensure or regulations, Medicare, Medicaid, and other regulations, guidelines, requirements, and statutes as applicable
- Remain knowledgeable on current federal, state and local laws, accreditation standards or regulatory agency requirements that apply to the assigned area of responsibility and ensure compliance with all such laws, regulations and standards
Requirements
- Board certified or eligible for certification in physician’s primary specialty
- Licensed Practicing Provider MD/DO
- Credentialed and willing to maintain clinical practice
Physical Demands
- Light Work - Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects
- Able to travel throughout and between facilities
- This position involves the handling of hazardous drugs and/or hazardous drug contaminated products either through receipt, transport, storage, preparation, dispensing, administration, cleaning and/or disposal of contaminated waste, including contact with patients who may receive hazardous drugs
About the Company
Ochsner Health is committed to serving, healing, leading, educating, and innovating. The organization believes in making a difference through its dedicated employees.
