Chief Medical Officer, PACE

Key Responsibilities

Systemwide Clinical Leadership

• Provide systemwide medical direction, clinical standards, and physician oversight while maintaining local accountability for day-to-day clinical operations.
• Promote consistent, evidence-based, participant-centered care and sound clinical judgment across programs.
• Advise executive leadership, local boards, program leaders, and IDTs on clinical priorities and decisions.
• Translate organizational and clinical goals into practical expectations for providers and local leaders.

Shared Medical Leadership Structure

• Lead, mentor, and hold local medical leaders accountable, emphasizing leadership development and systemwide consistency rather than routine clinic coverage.
• Maintain a model in which each program has appropriate on-site medical leadership for daily clinic operations, APP support, and IDT accountability.
• Define reporting relationships that distinguish systemwide medical oversight from local operational accountability and clarify how shared and local clinical leadership roles work together.
• Partner with each Executive Director on provider performance, program operations, quality, utilization, compliance, and organizational priorities.

Provider Development and Accountability

• Set performance expectations for local physician leaders and hold them accountable for clinical, administrative, quality, utilization, and regulatory results.
• Develop local medical leaders so each program becomes increasingly self-sustaining in clinical leadership, regulatory knowledge, and administrative accountability.
• Define PCP and APP expectations for IDT collaboration, documentation, service authorization, participant-centered decision-making, and adherence to PACE standards.
• Support provider recruitment, onboarding, supervision, development, engagement, and retention.
• Lead regular medical leadership forums to share learning, address common challenges, and reinforce consistent expectations.

Quality, Utilization Management, and Clinical Outcomes

• Lead systemwide efforts to improve participant outcomes, quality performance, and appropriate utilization.
• Monitor hospitalizations, readmissions, emergency department visits, specialty utilization, elective procedures, and other key performance measures.
• Evaluate clinical workflows and utilization practices, identify shared priorities, and implement effective practices across programs.
• Guide interventions that improve wellness and function, strengthen care planning, support exceptional end-of-life care, and reduce avoidable utilization.
• Partner with data and analytics teams to identify trends, performance gaps, and improvement opportunities.

Regulatory, Compliance, and PACE Medical Oversight

• Partner with compliance leadership to ensure adherence to CMS, MDHHS, and PACE requirements.
• Ensure medical leadership structures, reporting relationships, and organizational charts support required oversight.
• Support audit and survey readiness, corrective actions, regulatory reviews, program evaluations, and quality improvement plans.
• Monitor emerging requirements and recommend practical operational responses.
• Strengthen organizational understanding of managed care risk, capitated financing, service authorization, and related compliance responsibilities.

Executive Leadership, Strategy, and Growth

• Serve on the PACE executive leadership team and contribute to strategy, culture, and leadership accountability across the portfolio.
• Provide clinical perspective on growth, partnerships, acquisitions, vendor and health system relationships, and emerging care models.
• Advance innovative care and population health strategies consistent with the PACE mission.
• Represent Brio and its PACE organizations in industry, regulatory, and professional forums, as appropriate.
• Support clear communication during medical leadership transitions and reinforce shared standards, expectations, and mission.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Unrestricted physician license in the State of Michigan (MD or DO).
• Active DEA registration.
• Board Certification in Family Medicine or Internal Medicine.
• Minimum of three (3) years of experience in geriatric medicine, palliative care, and/or hospice care.
• Minimum of two (2) years of experience serving as a PACE Medical Director.
• Strong commitment to providing high-quality, participant-centered care for older adults.

Benefits

• Generous 6 weeks of Flexible time off per year—plus paid holidays on top of that.
• Competitive Benefits for Full-Time Team Members – Enjoy Medical, Vision & Dental Insurance starting on the 1st of the month after 30 days of hire.
• Retirement Savings Plan – Secure your future with employer contributions.
• Team Member Referral Bonus Program – Earn $500 when you bring great people to our
• Mileage Reimbursement – Offered for work-related travel.