Rheumatology Partnership Opportunity: Lake Charles, LA Located 1 hr to Beaumont, 2 hrs to Houston and 1 hr. to Lafayette, 30 minutes from the Gulf Experienced candidates and new grads welcome to apply Position Details
- Full-time
- Permanent
- Partnership from day 1, No buy-in
- 2 year guarantee at the MGMA median with bonus opportunity, all practice expenses, benefits and med mal covered under the guarantee
- Schedule during guarantee period: M-F, 8-5pm, you set your own schedule after the guarantee period
- Inpatient or Outpatient - Choose your practice
- Hospitalist services are available
- Only 2 FTE rheumatologist in the area (1 close to retirement)
- 2 to 3 month wait time for rheumatology services
- Join 32 physician partner group, 70 provider group
- Built-in referrals, 18 primary care providers
- Lab and imaging ancillary services in-house
- Call schedule take his/her own call, hospital has a hospitalist program for use = no call
- Daily patient census 25 up to 40 depending on the practice and physician - Patient volume allows up to 40 patients/day
- No infusion center onsite but contracts with Infusion Service when needed. Also, the hospital has an infusion center available to the group.
- Vacation time 3 weeks while on guarantee, unlimited after guarantee up to physician at that point
About the GroupHealth Group is a network of physicians collaborating together to offer advanced medical care services to the residents of Southwest Louisiana. The group over 40 physicians on staff specializing in the areas of cardiology, endocrinology, ENT and allergy, family medicine, foot and ankle surgery and treatment, gastroenterology; general, vascular and thoracic surgery, bariatric surgery, hand and wrist surgery, internal medicine, neurology, orthopaedic surgery, pediatrics, physical medicine and rehabilitation, pulmonary diseases and critical care and rheumatology. The philosophy behind our business is simple: to be patient-centric, first and foremost.
