Description

Geisinger’s Heart and Vascular Institute is seeking a skilled Cardiac Hospitalist Physician to join our team at Geisinger Health System.  As a Cardiac Hospitalist, you will provide professional services to patients including procedures such as transesophageal echocardiograms and cardiac stress testing, consultations, and hospital rounds.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate and treat patients with appropriate medical diagnostic and treatment skills.
• Coordinate discharge planning with case management.
• Recommend, participate in, and work to ensure the success of efforts to improve cost effectiveness and quality of care provided to patients.
• Accept patient referrals from other physicians and act as admitting, attending, and/or consulting physician for patients who require hospitalization for primary medical diagnoses.
• Participate in academic programs, such as medical education and research, as requested.
• Provide appropriate documentation that meets insurance company requirements and appeal all denials in a timely manner.
• Participate in inpatient consultation for specialty, which will include on-call.

At Geisinger, we believe that with the right people, we can make a significant impact on heart health. As an integrated health system, we not only deliver care but also act as the payor – this allows us to think differently about solving healthcare’s biggest challenges. To deliver more effective results, we focus on patients’ total care, we drive access and leverage efficiency. This is why we are a national leader in value-based care.

Our Achievements:

• Consistently one of the “Most Wired” Health Systems – on EPIC since 1995 with decades of clinical outcome data.
• An Academic Health System – Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine + Nursing School; two cardiovascular disease fellowships, Interventional and EP fellowships.
• One of the largest Genetic Banks in the Country with over 300,000 genomes sequenced.
• 60+K echocardiograms per year, 3K Advanced Cardiac Imaging Studies and growing.
• Robust Structural Heart Program, LVAD + ECMO capabilities.
• Research Institute leveraging our expertise.
• Excellent collaboration with Cardiac Surgery.

The kind of provider we’re looking for:

To improve the heart health of our communities, we need big thinkers, hard workers, and team players who believe that spectacular is possible.

Here, people look out for each other and want to see you and your career grow. If you think your goals overlap with ours, let’s connect!  Lori Surak, Senior Provider Recruiter, 570-218-9188, [email protected], or  www.geisinger.edu