Physician Assistant - Scottsdale

Awarded a Healthiest Employer, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona aims to fulfill its mission to inspire health and make it easy. AZ Blue offers a variety of health insurance products and services to meet the diverse needs of individuals, families, and small and large businesses as well as providing information and tools to help individuals make better health decisions.

At AZ Blue, we have a hybrid workforce strategy, called Workability, that offers flexibility with how and where employees work. Our positions are classified as hybrid, onsite or remote. While the majority of our employees are hybrid, the following classifications drive our current minimum onsite requirements:

• Hybrid People Leaders: must reside in AZ, required to be onsite at least twice per week

• Hybrid Individual Contributors: must reside in AZ, unless otherwise cited within this posting, required to be onsite at least once per week

• Hybrid 2 (Operational Roles such as but not limited to: Customer Service, Claims Processors, and Correspondence positions): must reside in AZ, unless otherwise cited within this posting, required to be onsite at least once per month

• Onsite: daily onsite requirement based on the essential functions of the job

• Remote: not held to onsite requirements, however, leadership can request presence onsite for business reasons including but not limited to staff meetings, one-on-ones, training, and team building

Please note that onsite requirements may change in the future, based on business need, and job responsibilities. Most employees should expect onsite requirements and at a minimum of once per week.

You Will:

As a Physician Assistant at Prosano Health, you will be a key contributor to our first-class clinical team in delivering direct patient care. You will deliver on our commitment of excellence to our patients and help us grow through participation in continuous improvement and innovative population health activities. This position has an emphasis on customer/patient care excellence, privacy, compliance, and serving in a dynamic health setting. The direct patient care responsibilities include:

• Evaluating and treating patients in accordance with standards of care.
• Following standards of medical care and quality for patients, and monitoring care using available data and chart reviews
• Acting as an active participant and key source of medical expertise with the care team through daily huddles
• Setting a tone of cooperation in practice by displaying a professional and approachable demeanor.
• Completing all medical record documentation in a timely manner working with a quality- based coder to optimize coding specificity
• Following policy and protocol defined by Clinical Leadership and BCBSAZ.
• Meeting with other departments to discuss quality of care, outcome data, policy, procedure, and records issues
• Participating in potential growth opportunities for new or existing services
• Assuring personal compliance with licensing, certification, and accrediting bodies
• Building relationships with other healthcare providers, social/community organizations, and marketing partners 
• Performing all other duties as assigned
• Working hours may include extended hours
• This position requires 100% on-site work at the care center location and may also involve movement between clinics as needed

You Have:

• Current and unrestricted Physician Assistant license in the state of Arizona
• Successfully completed an accredited Physician Assistant program and have an active Board Certification.
• Minimum of four years of applicable experience preferred   
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated a high level of skill with interpersonal relationships and communications with colleagues/patients
• Fully engaged in the concept of “Integrated team-based care” model  
• A willingness and ability to learn/adapt to practice in a value-based care setting.  
• Superior patient/customer service skills
• Basic computer skills  
• BLS certification
• Active AZ fingerprint clearance card
• Active Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) license

Our Commitment

AZ Blue does not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other protected group.

Thank you for your interest in Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona.  For more information on our company, see azblue.com.  If interested in this position, please apply.