Impactful Staff Physician — Patient-First Care

Ochsner Health; Marrero (LA); On-site; USD 250,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Ochsner Health is seeking a Staff Physician to provide and coordinate patient care across an interdisciplinary team within our Louisiana facilities. The role requires board certification or eligibility in the physician’s primary specialty and active MD/DO licensure with credentialing in good standing.

The position emphasizes delivering high-quality medical services, maintaining compliance with accreditation standards, and contributing to a patient-first culture.

Qualifications

• Board certified or eligible for certification in physician’s primary specialty.
• Licensed Practicing Provider MD/DO.
• Credentialed and willing to maintain clinical practice.

Responsibilities

• Examine the health of a patient to help make proper diagnosis of clinical conditions and prescribing medication, treatments, and follow-up care as required.
• Prescribes pharmaceuticals, other medications, and treatment regimens to treat identified and documented medical conditions
• Provide care directly and indirectly by working with other members of an interdisciplinary team to formulate treatment plans.
• Timely record patient encounters in Electronic Health Record
• Request further medical evaluations and make referrals, as necessary.
• Understand and commit to the highest standards of professionalism; willingness to hold others to those standards.
• Commit to collaboration with all members of the department to provide quality patient care.
• Ensure accurate coding of all patient visits.
• Comply with policies, procedures, bylaws, processes of privileging/credentialing, and standards of care that are conducive to the provision of high-quality medical services consistent with accreditation standards, state and federal licensure or regulations, Medicare, Medicaid, and other regulations, guidelines, requirements, and statutes as applicable.

Skills

Clinical excellence

Patient care

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Education

Board certified or eligible for certification in physician’s primary specialty

Licensed Practicing Provider MD/DO

Job description

Ochsner Health is seeking a Staff Physician to provide and coordinate patient care across an interdisciplinary team within our Louisiana facilities. The role requires board certification or eligibility in the physician’s primary specialty and active MD/DO licensure with credentialing in good standing.

The position emphasizes delivering high-quality medical services, maintaining compliance with accreditation standards, and contributing to a patient-first culture.