This Birmingham Health System is seeking a Board certified/board eligible Orthopedic Spine Surgeon. Job features include the following.

• 10 physicians in group, 9 ortho, 1 rheumatology
• Immediate need
• I year path to partnership – minimal buy in
• $400K to start, $600 - $700K in third year
• 14 days of vacation first year, then don’t dictate
• 401K
• Medical, dental, vision at no cost first year, then partnership pays
• Life, Short term disability, long term disability
• Need spine, must be able to take call
• No visas
• MD or DO, prefer American trained
• Have multiple locations,
• Help each other out, have your back
• Good ancillaries, PT is most profitable in state: 16 years’ old, a profit center
• Treated like a partner from the beginning
• Large city, no limit to the number of patients or cap like a smaller town
• Partners are physician extenders, first assist fees are 20% of total for helping as first assist
• Very efficient practice, low overhead, pay for what you get, provide you with what you need, see all accounting on a dashboard
• Most surgical cases are elective
• 600 patient visits per month, 70 – 80 per week, 120 per week is busy
• ORS based EMR: Xscribe
• Digital x ray with u-arm
• Each person decides what payor mix they want: 50% Blue Cross, 20% Medicare, 10% workers’ comp
• 60% office, 40% OR
• 5 half day clinics, rest is OR time: 1.5 days per week
• Easy call burden: 1 – 2 night per month for unattached call; 1:4 on weekends with the OrthoSports physicians who work at St. Vincent’s Birmingham
• Office call every other week
• ER call 4 days per week, paid for call
• Not level one trauma, mostly ambulatory injuries
• Call is infrequent and easy
• Lifestyle is good and a lot of free time

This health system is part of the nation’s largest non-profit health system and the largest Catholic health system in the world, operating 2,500 sites of care – including 141 hospitals and more than 30 senior living facilities – in 24 states and the District of Columbia.

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