Surgery - General Physician

General Surgery Opportunity in the South Bend (Notre Dame) Indiana area
Practice Opportunity Profile - General Surgery
Practice Description: Physician-owned multi-specialty group practice with 32 physicians in 17 different specialties and sub-specialties; 40% primary care (general internal medicine and family medicine) and 60% surgical and non-surgical specialists. Comprehensive laboratory and imaging services. eClinicalWorks EMR.
Area Description: City population of 50,000; County population of 200,000. Strong manufacturing economy with a concentration in recreational vehicles and manufactured housing.
Qualifications and Training: Board certified or board eligible considered if residency completed in last 5 years. Excellent communication skills required.
Clinic Hours: Monday through Thursday, Friday until noon.
Practice Environment: Private physician office with exam and procedure rooms as needed. Front office, back-office and support staff as needed. Case load averages 18+ daily office visits and 125 procedures monthly.
Hospital Environment: Modern, financially sound, full-service 312-bed single community hospital; level 3 trauma center, 16-bed ICU, 54-bed PCU; located within one mile from the Clinic. Good working relationship with hospital administration and medical staff.
ASC Environment: RiverPointe Surgery Center adjacent to Hospital. Ownership opportunity upon clinic membership. Surgery Center built in 1997 includes 12 pre/post GI beds, 10 general surgery bays, and 8 PACU bays, five OR suites with 2 dedicated fully equipped Endo rooms. Fully trained surgical technicians on staff.
Call Rotation: 1 in 4. Full time hospitalist program affiliated with the hospital provide 24/7 in-service coverage.
Compensation: Annual guarantee $415,000 guarantee for two years with worked RVU incentive, signing bonus, relocation assistance and annual CME allowance.
Membership/Partnership: Expectation of ownership in Clinic LLC and Clinic Building LLC, which provides significant additional compensation opportunity.
Reimbursement Environment: Clinic participates in traditional fee-for-service contracts with most Medicare, commercial and preferred provider plans; a few of these plans offer bonus incentives for quality performance. Clinic also participate in certain value-based preferred provider contracts that requiring the documentation and submission of cost and quality data.
Number of existing physicians in specialty: 1 clinic and 1 hospital.