Medical Director, Extended Care
Company websiteverawholehealth.com (Vera Whole Health, opens in new tab)
Base salary $306,907 to $460,361
Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in Cerritos, CA
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- LocationCerritos, CA
- WorkplaceWorkplace not stated
- Status at last checkSource accepting applications when checked
- Last checked (1 h ago) · observed since
About this job
Job Description Summary
The Regional Medical Director, Extended Care is a senior physician leader responsible for the clinical, operational, and strategic performance of an assigned team. This role provides leadership across multiple care teams, provider teams, and interdisciplinary clinical functions to ensure the delivery of exceptional patient outcomes within a value-based care model.This leader is accountable for translating enterprise strategy into execution while ensuring clinical excellence, regulatory compliance, and sustained provider performance. Partnering with medical services and other support teams, they are ultimately responsible for driving quality outcomes, total cost of care performance, utilization management, provider engagement, and clinical excellence across multiple teams. The role is accountable for advancing population health strategies, supporting provider performance, and ensuring regulatory and quality compliance within the region.
CareMore’s model is deeply rooted in population health, proactive care coordination, and high-risk member management, so this role is highly focused on outcomes, prevention, and reducing avoidable utilization.
This is often a people leader role over multiple physician leaders, not just individual clinicians.
How will you make an impact & Requirements
Key Responsibilities
Clinical Leadership
- Provide physician leadership across multiple clinics, markets, teams, or regions
- Establish clinical standards, workflows, and evidence-based care practices
- Ensure consistency in care delivery across all accountable teams
- Lead regional medical strategy aligned with enterprise goals
- Serve as the senior physician escalation point for clinical issues
Provider Leadership & Talent Management
- Lead and develop physicians leaders, advanced practice providers, and clinical leaders
- Conduct performance management, coaching, and development planning
- Support succession planning and physician leadership pipeline development
- Partner with Talent Acquisition on provider hiring and workforce planning
- Lead physician engagement and retention initiatives
Value-Based Performance Accountability
- Own regional performance for:
- HEDIS
- STAR ratings
- RAF / risk adjustment
- readmission reduction
- emergency department utilization
- inpatient admissions
- length of stay
- total cost of care
- Lead interventions for high-risk and chronic populations
- Drive medical expense improvement initiatives
- Partner with care management and UM leadership
Operational Partnership
- Support market growth strategy and geographic expansion
- Partner with network, pharmacy, case management, and UM
- Lead operational change initiatives
- Support workflow redesign and transformation efforts
- Provide clinical leadership during restructures, new market launches, and regional transitions
Financial & Business Accountability
- Accountable for clinical cost performance across assigned region
- Monitor provider productivity and panel performance
- Identify trends in utilization and cost leakage
- Develop and support budget and staffing decisions
- Drive margin improvement through clinical interventions
External Relationship Management
- Build strategic relationships with health plan partners
- Engage community providers and referral networks
- Represent CareMore in market-level clinical partnerships
- Support provider relations and physician network engagement
- Serve as physician-facing leader in community and payer meetings
Compensation Range:
$306,907.00to
$460,361.00The anticipated base salary range represents the Company's good-faith estimate of the compensation it reasonably expects to pay for this position at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, skills, qualifications, geographic location, internal equity, and business needs.
Source: Vera Whole Health on Workday · View original posting (opens in new tab)
Pay in context
This role's base floor ($306,907) is above 81% of the 376 Healthcare Clinical roles in California listed on this site. Their median floor is $178,688; the middle half runs from $135,700 to $290,000.
Only jobs on this site count, and each one publishes a base salary of $100,000 or more, so this compares six-figure jobs with each other, not with the whole market. Computed Nov 8, 2026.
This listingMedical Director, Extended Care$306,907 to $460,361
Primary Care Physician - Fairbanks, AK - Vera Whole Health$211,369 to $317,053
Primary Care Physician - Anchorage, AK - Vera Whole Health$211,369 to $317,053
Primary Care Physician - Wasilla, AK - Vera Whole Health$211,369 to $317,053
Network Contracting Director$157,492 to $236,238
Primary Care Nurse Practitioner - Montebello, CA (CareMore)$130,159 to $195,238
Senior Clinical Data Analyst$130,159 to $195,238
Chart as a table
| Role | Published base |
|---|---|
| Medical Director, Extended Care (this listing) | $306,907 - $460,361 |
| Primary Care Physician - Fairbanks, AK - Vera Whole Health | $211,369 - $317,053 |
| Primary Care Physician - Anchorage, AK - Vera Whole Health | $211,369 - $317,053 |
| Primary Care Physician - Wasilla, AK - Vera Whole Health | $211,369 - $317,053 |
| Network Contracting Director | $157,492 - $236,238 |
| Primary Care Nurse Practitioner - Montebello, CA (CareMore) | $130,159 - $195,238 |
| Senior Clinical Data Analyst | $130,159 - $195,238 |
Observed changes
- First observed on the employer's board
- Began meeting the published-salary criteria
- Observed since
- Employer-stated posting date
- 2026-11-05
Where this pay comes from
Location as the employer wrote it: Cerritos, CA
$306,907.00 to $460,361.00
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