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Family Practitioner, Internist, General/Plastic Surgeon (wound care) need in all metro TX areas
Summerfield, North Carolina, United States
Job Summary
Occupation
Physician
Specialty
Family Practice-Without OB
Degree Required
MD/DO
Position Type
Permanent/Full-Time
Locums/Travel
Part-Time/Contract
Work Environment
Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC)
Academic/Training Program
Hospital
Clinic/Private Practice
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Visa Sponsorship
No
Job Description
Last Update:
2/10/15
Positions are located in the Beaumont, TX area. They can be full or part-time.
No visa's. MD or DO must be living in or near the area already as relocation is not offered.
Join a large 130 physician group delivering skin and wound care services at bedside to patients in hundreds of skilled nursing and rehabilitation centers throughout the US.
They provide physician training in their model for delivering skin, wound and limb salvage services at bedside to patients in skilled nursing and rehab facilities;
Assign facilities in a geographic area convenient to the physician residence; Allow each physician the ability to achieve their unique balance of compensation and life-style. Offer a practice with No weekends, No Nights, No holidays, No On-call, and the ability to develop a customized regular weekly schedule.
Notably, they also: Provide significantly better clinical outcomes to a population that truly benefits from and appreciates from their services; and setting National Benchmarks for Wound Care for bed bound patients throughout the US.
Physicians joining their practice include Family Practitioners, Surgeons, and Internists, etc. Although life-style is an attraction, their physicians also enjoy doing procedures and seeing the results of their efforts by providing a much needed service to a neglected population.
Physicians interested in this opportunity must be able to commit to 3 days at minimum per week and they must be the same 3 days each week (e.g., 24- 30 hours Mon-Friday between 7 A.M. and 4 PM); Physicians will round on patients between these hours at Skilled Nursing Facilities, Long Term Acute Centers and/or Rehabilitation Hospitals. Physicians work and lead a team of fully staffed nurses and ancillary support staff within each facility. Physicians typically works approximately 8 hours or less per day.
Specialties
They are looking for physicians who enjoy a focused, procedure oriented practice. Primary care: Family Practice-Without OB, internal medicine, surgery (general, vascular, plastic, other).
Physician characteristics
They attract physicians who enjoy a focused, procedure oriented practice where they can work weekdays only and control the hours (min. 3 days per week) and realize a competitive productivity based compensation.
Working Schedule
Hours: Weekdays Only ( Monday ? Friday between 7 am and 4 pm). Min. 25 hours per week. Physician can set up their schedule to match their life-style but it must be the same hours every week with no on-call obligations during that time. Typically full days work better and AM hours rather than afternoon hours.
Contract and Compensation Arrangement
All of their physicians are contractors, although most work full time on a permanent basis providing services at facilities within a 45 minute drive from where they live.
Their compensation is 100% productivity based (determined by what they enter into the electronic medical record they carry with them on a netbook). On average, physicians earn between $800 - $1,000 per day ($160,000 - $250,000 per year).
Residence and License Requirements
Physicians must already be living in (or very near) and hold an unblemished license in the state.
Compensation
Physicians are compensated based on the clinical data they enter into their EMR, with the national average of approximately $800- $1,000 per day. With that said there is no lag time/ waiting for re-imbursement. They pay physicians on the 12th of each month, for the previous months work.
Malpractice Coverage
They also offer malpractice coverage, which includes tail coverage through an A+ rated insurance firm, although some physicians use their own. They also provided the physician with in-house counsel who can assist the physician, if an adverse issue arises.