• Walk into a ready-made practice with referrals
• The practice is open to learn from you about the optimal ways to develop their practice
• Little to no managed care; higher payments than Atlanta or FL for instance

Location:

• Southwestern GA, near the FL border
• 77,500 city population
• 151 miles from Atlanta, 88 miles from Tallahassee, Florida
• Little traffic, beaches within 3 hours
• Lower cost of housing than in a major city

Practice Features:

• On-site, newly-designed, Joint Commission Accredited Ambulatory Surgery Center
• 5 Board Certified orthopaedic surgeons
• Treatments include degenerative joint processes including joint replacement, as well as diagnosis and treatment of knee, shoulder, elbow, hand, foot, wrist, spine and hip fractures and other general musculoskeletal trauma, sports medicine, arthroscopy, pain and minimally invasive surgery
• One of the orthopaedic surgeons is an examiner for both the oral and clinical Board Certification examinations, has served on the Board of Directors for the American Osteopathic Academy of Orthopaedics and is the past President of the organization
• On-site MRI, PT and orthotics and prosthetics as well as a pharmacy and urgicare clinic

Responsibilities:

• Clinic and procedure days. Procedures done in an ASC
• Average about 120 cases/month; the current physiatrist chooses to do procedures 1 very long day per week; the number of days you do procedures is up to you
• See about 25 patients/day
• Will work closely with one (or possibly two) spinal surgeons (they have another spine doc hopefully joining them in the fall). 
• Work with an EMR system; they use Allscripts
• No call
• Procedures are done at a surgery center and they are willing to make arrangements also for an injection room for in office injections.
• Ultrasound machine available
• Friday’s are usually half days
• Patients getting pain meds (including opioids) with no procedures:  approximately 10%
• Patients getting opioids and occasional procedures:  over 50%. These figures are estimates.
• The current physiatrist does urine drug screens at regular intervals, and patientss are often discharged for failing a drug screen.

Affiliation:

• Employee, partnership not possible for this type of group by GA law

Compensation:

• Salary
• The current physiatrist nets $400,000 and only works 4 days/week

Benefits:

• 2-3 weeks’ vacation, health, dental, CME, relocation and more

Reason for the opening:

• The current physiatrist’s family lives in Atlanta so he’s moving to Atlanta

Candidate Qualifications:

• A pain management specialist, who does interventional pain management, with the full complement of injection skills, fellowship trained, who is comfortable managing and working up chronic pain patients
• Board Certified/Qualified physiatrist with excellent interpersonal and communications skills
• A team player
• Will consider 2018 pain fellowship graduates

Community Information:

• Regional airport
• Cultural locations include an Art Museum, ballet and the Imagination Theatre
• Festivals include the annual Mardi Gras Festival
• Many private schools
• Home of State University which is part of the University of GA system