PrimeCare Medical, Inc. (PCM) has been in operation since 1986. We’re a privately owned, physician founded, nationally accredited correctional healthcare practice.

PCM provides comprehensive medical & mental health care services to over 80 county jails, prisons, and juvenile detention centers throughout 5 different states in the Northeastern US (PA, MD, NY, NH, & FL); and was voted one of the Top 50 Fastest Growing Companies of 2019, 2020 & 2021 by the Central PA Business Journal!

Correctional health care is the perfect hybrid of Primary Care, Urgent Care, Addiction Medicine, and Emergency Medicine; serving an often underserved and extremely diverse patient population. Correctional medicine is a unique, challenging, and exciting opportunity for today’s medical professional in that it provides the ability to truly utilize all your learned medical skills and knowledge on a daily basis and provides unrivaled scheduling flexibility/moldability around your lifestyle!

We are currently looking for a part-time Tele-Medicine Addiction/Substance Abuse Physician to join our PrimeCare family in Pennsylvania.

This position requires up to 20 hours of tele-health/tele-medicine care each week, Monday - Friday, during normal business hours (i.e., ~8:00a - 4:30p) – and is 100% remote.

To quickly summarize some key points:

• • Salaries are negotiable and commensurate based on experience;
  • Company-paid liability insurance (including tail) included;
  • Generous part-time PTO plan provided;
  • Partial annual licensure reimbursement offered; and
  • Laptop reimbursement for Tele-Medicine work provided.

Job Duties:

• • Provide service to the inmate/patient population while utilizing current, acceptable standards of medical/MAT practice.
  • Assume responsibility for clinical management of the MAT (medication assisted treatment) program in accordance with NCCHC/ACA Standards, as well as PCM policies and procedures.
  • Services to be provided on scheduled workdays according to standards and times mutually agreeable to physician, facility administration, and PCM.
  • Provide virtual consults/visits to MAT patients located within multiple PrimeCare facilities throughout the state of Pennsylvania, for purposes of managing detox withdrawal/tapers & ongoing MAT medication prescribing/management.
  • Provide MAT consultation to all professionals (i.e., physicians/nursing) within the unit(s).
  • Provide consultation & support to all medical physicians and mid-level providers in West Virginia with respect to clinical MAT services provided.
  • Ensure complete, accurate and timely documentation entries are made for each inmate/patient contact.
  • Available for consultation and/or emergency MAT coverage via phone only on-call support.
  • Work collaboratively and supervise clinical MAT activities of fellow physicians and medical staff while on duty.
  • Evaluate all inmates/patients referred with MAT concerns for presence, or absence, of mental illness and refer to mental health accordingly.
  • Refer inmates/patients as necessary to appropriate outpatient/inpatient substance abuse facilities when appropriate.
  • Work collaboratively with pharmacy to evaluate and approve all medications and other medicinal preparations, which comprise the facility formulary.
  • Establish and monitor standards of care provided by physicians, mid-level providers and nurses in accordance with NCCHC/ACA and accepted MAT standards.

Company Overview:

We’re committed to managing and reducing risk in correctional health care by providing cost-effective quality healthcare management, continuously improving the standards of care and striving for national accreditation for all facilities.

Dedicated to correctional healthcare, PCM prides itself on our strong client relationships, as well as effective and efficient management of healthcare services. These attributes continue to be the hallmark of our success. With new contracts established regularly, opportunities for development and advancement are ample.

PCM utilizes a proprietary EMR system customized to our practice, and specifically designed for correctional healthcare. Said technology is user-friendly, intuitive, and always available.

At PCM we’re dedicated to your long-term success and foster this by providing individually catered training to every one of our physicians. We teach you how to document in real-time and tactfully structure our call requirements, to ensure that your life outside of your career is focused on the things that truly matter.

To learn more about why PrimeCare Medical, Inc. is the choice for quality correctional health care, please apply today to schedule a phone interview. We’re ready to speak with you about joining our PrimeCare Medical family!