Medical Director of Advisory Services
Long Beach, CAJob$300–325K/yrPosted 1 day agoSeen in employer's feed today
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Sound Physicians seeks an experienced physician leader to provide on-site advisory services at an academic program and partner hospitals. The Medical Director will lead utilization management, compliance, and clinical documentation improvement, and work with hospital administration to identify performance improvement opportunities. The role includes addressing length of stay, readmissions, documentation, regulatory compliance, and payer denials, as well as educating and consulting with medical staff and hospital teams.
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Medical Director of Advisory Services
Long Beach, California
ATS:
Salesforce
Job ID:
JOB-001375
Date posted:
11/06/2026
Category:
Advisory Services
Join our Medical Group as a Medical Director of Advisory Services - A Role Designed for You
An experienced physician leader to provide on-site advisory services at an academic program, leading utilization management (UM), compliance, and clinical documentation improvement (CDI) efforts for our partner hospitals. In this unique role, you will provide advisory services and the opportunity to work with hospital administration to identify and address performance improvement opportunities, potentially including length of stay, readmissions, improved documentation, and regulatory compliance.
Local Team Collaboration:
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Together, collaborate to provide expert guidance and drive better outcomes.
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Physician advisors work together to improve services and outcomes.
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Leading utilization management (UM) efforts, clinical documentation improvement (CDI), education, and regulatory compliance. Your role is to drive performance improvements in length of stay, readmissions, and documentation.
Qualifications:
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MD or DO licensure within the state of employment.
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Experience in Utilization Management, compliance, and clinical documentation preferred.
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Strong leadership, education, and collaboration skills.
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Board Certification (base specialty) recognized by ABMS or ABQAURP.
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Education on the application of medical necessity criteria within three months of hire.
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Three years of post-residency experience as a physician advisor preferred.
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Authorized to work in the United States.
Scheduling:
- Monday - Friday (onsite), providing a healthy work-life balance.
Key Responsibilities:
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Provide leadership and oversight of advisory services.
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Serve as a visible physician leader and advocate for improved regulatory compliance, improved documentation, and improved utilization of hospital resources.
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Provide support to address and reduce payer denials.
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Develop action plans on performance improvement opportunities.
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Provide one-on-one as well as group education to the medical staff.
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Provide timely and effective consultation to case management, CDI specialists, physicians, and other staff at the hospital with documented determinations and observations.
Rewards and Compensation:
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Competitive yearly compensation ($300-$325k), commensurate with experience.
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Salaried position, Health benefits, CME, PTO, and 401k.
Cindy Mitchum, Clinical Recruiter | [email protected] | (706) 799-3592
How this job compares
Set against the 1,769 open Medical Director jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$300–325K/yr
- California median$237–347K/yr100 salary ranges
- US median$228–373K/yr987 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $313K, is 6% above the California median midpoint ($294K) — in the middle half of Medical Director salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 133 open Medical Director jobs in California and 1,769 across the US. 9% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- VCA Animal Hospitals12 open
- Gilead Sciences, Inc.11 open
- Sutter Health9 open
- Experience
- Medical Director postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 5 years (954 postings).
- Education
- 1,266 of the 1,769 open Medical Director jobs (72%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 7, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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