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Primary Care Physician – Internal Medicine or Family Medicine
Metro Atlanta, GA (Suwanee / Gwinnett County) | Permanent | Full-Time or Part-Time
Year One: $350K Salary $50K Signing Bonus
An independent, physician-owned primary care practice in metro Atlanta is growing and hiring Internal Medicine and Family Medicine physicians on an ongoing basis. The practice is affiliated with a major regional health network and plans to expand across metro Atlanta. Physicians join a busy, well-supported office where they can build a full panel quickly.
The Position
- Specialty: Primary care physician, Internal Medicine or Family Medicine (either specialty is a fit)
- Patients: Adults 18 and older, mostly commercially insured
- Setting: Permanent, long-term, outpatient, on-site
- Schedule: Full-time or part-time, with a flexible start date
- Location: Main office in Suwanee, GA (Gwinnett County), with plans to expand to every major city across metro Atlanta
About the Practice
- Practice: Independent, family-oriented primary care practice owned and led by physicians, and affiliated with a major regional health network
- Team: 5 physicians and 1 nurse practitioner. Physicians handle their own coding, and the billing team handles claims and collections.
- Clinical support: RN team for patient triage, results calls, and inbox support; nurses for in-office procedures and testing; and a remote care team
- Administrative support: Front desk check-in and check-out, scheduling, prior authorizations for medications and imaging, and billing, with an insurance collection rate over 98%
- EMR: eClinicalWorks with AI ambient recording, order sets, and templates
- In-office diagnostics: FibroScan, home sleep studies, DEXA, spirometry, ultrasound (echo and vascular studies), ECG, ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, and phlebotomy
- Board-certified in Internal Medicine or Family Medicine
- A Georgia medical license and DEA registration, or the ability to obtain both before the start date
- A clean history, with no license, DEA, or privileging actions, payer exclusions, or malpractice history that would delay credentialing
- A desire to build a strong patient base, grow their compensation, and stay for the long term
- Graduate of a US medical school
- MD preferred
- Trained in an excellent residency program
- Two to three years of experience after residency
- Strong ties to the Atlanta area
- Year one: $350K salary plus a $50K signing bonus, based on a five-day week at three patients per hour
- After year one: Base salary plus a productivity bonus, with total compensation well above $400K, and additional pay for helping establish a satellite location
- Work-life balance: Monday through Friday, four- or five-day week, weekends and major holidays off, part-time considered, and light call shared among the physicians
- Benefits: Student loan repayment, relocation assistance, malpractice with tail coverage, CME and license fees, health, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) with employer contribution, and generous paid time off
Salary : $50,000 - $400,000