Gastroenterology Physician

Board Certified Full-Time Permanent Gastroenterologist

A successful healthcare system is looking for a full-time permanent Board Certified Gastroenterologist in Upstate New York.

Job Description

• Compensation: $600,000 base; annual wRVU bonus of $65.00 per wRVU is paid for all wRVUs over 8,250 for Year 1 and 9,150 for Years 2 and 3.
• Eligible for hospital provided benefits including health insurance, participation in hospital 403(b) retirement plan, 20 days of PDO, plus 6 holidays and 5 days CME.
• Sign-On / Relocation Bonus: $25,000.
• Goal is to recruit a full-time physician to join 1 MD and 2 NPs. The goal would be to have one MD doing procedures each day, Monday-Friday.
• Office Schedule: 4 day, 40 hour week. Goal is to operate outpatient practice Monday-Friday, with 2-2.5 days in the Endo Suite (one full day would be on Fridays) and 1.5-2 days in the office.
• As the practice continues to grow and additional providers are added, hospital and physicians will sit together to determine future call requirements so as to maintain compliance with federal and state regulations governing availability to patients during daytime office hours as well as after hours and weekends.
• Employment Contract: 3 year contract with automatic renewal clause.
• Gastroenterologists are expected to attend medical staff department meetings, serve on medical staff committees as requested, and actively participate in relationship building activities with referral sources, including primary care physicians and the community (i.e. schools, business, etc.). The organization’s marketing and its business development staff will assist in this endeavor.
• Gastroenterologists should be competent and interested in providing services in this subspecialty, including esophagoscopy, esophageal sclerotherapy and band ligation for varices, esophageal manometry, foreign body removal, gastroscopy, duodenoscopy, sigmoidoscopy, colonoscopy, endoscopic ultrasound, liver biopsy, and PEG insertion/removal. ERCP and ERCP with sphincterotomy preferred but not required.
• Gastroenterologists will be required to perform procedures, as noted above, in the endoscopy suite and in the operating room. They will see patients in the outpatient practice office and provide consultations for inpatients and emergency room.

Facility Overview

101-bed acute care hospital and a 160-bed extended-care facility (ECF) and short-term rehab facility licensed by the State of New York and operated as a not-for-profit corporation. The hospital is Joint Commission accredited.