Physician Orthopedics-Hand Surgery - Competitive Salary

Job Description

Hand & Upper Extremity Surgeon — Fellowship-Trained | Inherited Practice | 12-Month Partnership | Utah County, Utah

The Opportunity
Step into a built practice. A retiring hand surgeon leaves behind an established panel, proven volume, and a referral engine already running. You are not starting from zero. You are walking into Day-1 cases, Day-1 clinic, and Day-1 income inside Utah’s largest independent, physician-owned multispecialty group.

Utah County is one of the fastest-growing, youngest, most active markets in the country. Hand and upper-extremity demand is high and underserved. Internal referrals from the orthopedic section, 200+ PCPs, and five urgent cares start immediately.

Year-1 guarantee is the floor. Partnership at 12 months is the accelerator — ancillary income, ownership, and uncapped production. Total compensation is designed to jump hard once you are a partner. There is no earnings ceiling.

Clinical Scope

• High-volume elective hand and wrist: carpal tunnel, cubital tunnel, trigger finger, Dupuytren’s, CMC arthroplasty, wrist arthroscopy
• Trauma: distal radius, scaphoid, metacarpals, phalanges, tendon and nerve repair
• Arthritis reconstruction, ligament work, and complex upper-extremity reconstruction
• Full hand, wrist, and forearm — operative and non-operative
• Built-in referrals from generalists, sports medicine, and the rest of the orthopedic section

Qualifications

• MD/DO — BC/BE Orthopedic Surgery
• Hand / upper-extremity fellowship
• 1–5 years post-fellowship strongly preferred — hungry surgeons who want to own a practice, not rent one
• Technical skill + ownership mentality

Compensation

• Competitive Year-1 base
• 12-month partnership track — not 2–3 years
• Ancillary income and true ownership at partner
• Uncapped production — no cap, no “eat what you kill but we keep the ancillaries”
• Employer-paid malpractice + prior acts (tail) included
• Full benefits: medical, dental, vision, CME, retirement, relocation

Why This One

• Physician-owned. Not a health system. Not PE.
• You inherit the book. You do not build it from scratch.
• Fastest-growing county in a high-demand, underserved hand market
• Referral machine already in place: 200+ PCPs, five urgent cares, four owned imaging centers, section colleagues
• Partnership in 12 months. Ownership and ancillaries on the table.
• Tail coverage as a recruiting benefit — rare and expensive elsewhere