Telehealth Emergency Medicine Physician - 40 State Licensure Required

Wellpath; Tennessee; Remote; USD 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

DailyPay

Tuition Assistance

EAP with free counseling

Company paid life insurance

HSA

Wellness program

Discounted banking rates

Job summary

Wellpath is seeking a Telehealth Physician to remotely assess and provide emergent medical care for patients, collaborating with onsite staff. The role includes on-call coverage, pharmacotherapy management, and pathway development to ensure high-quality care across the patient population.

The ideal candidate holds an MD with emergency medicine experience, is licensed in the relevant state, and is willing to obtain additional licenses as needed.

Qualifications

• Licensed in the state of employment.
• Willing to add licenses in states where services are requested.
• Holding additional licenses is a benefit.
• Current DEA registration and applicable certifications.
• Board certified or eligible in internal or family medicine.

Responsibilities

• Rapidly assesses patients' physical and acute psychiatric health through telehealth and determines triage and treatment decisions in collaboration with onsite medical staff.
• Provides clinical oversight of assessment and reassessment, ongoing provision of care activities, and completion of all associated documentation by APPs.
• Provides on-call coverage for after-hours care of patients, treats medical problems including pharmacotherapy, makes referrals for tests and consultations, and follows up on results and recommendations.
• Provides education on the medical diagnoses to patients and onsite medical staff and collaborates with staff in other disciplines in an effective and professional manner.
• Demonstrates knowledge of care and treatment needs of patients of different ages and provides individualized care and treatment that is consistent with/sensitive to the age and life span developmental needs of each patient while complying with special precautions, disaster and fire safety procedures, and abuse reporting.

Skills

Emergency Medicine experience

On-call experience

Education

Medical doctorate (MD) from an accredited university

Job description

• Make a difference every day in the lives of the underserved
• Join a mission driven organization with a people first culture
• Excellent career growth opportunities

Join us and find a career that supports:

• Caring for overlooked, underserved, and vulnerable patients
• Autonomy in a warm team environment
• Growth and training

Perks and Benefits

In addition to comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, paid time off, and 401k, we foster a work, life balance for team members and their family to support physical, mental, and financial wellbeing including:

• DailyPay, receive your money as you earn it!
• Tuition Assistance and dependent Scholarships
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) including free counseling and health coaching
• Company paid life insurance
• Tax free Health Spending Accounts (HSA)
• Wellness program featuring fitness memberships and product discounts
• Preferred banking partnership and discounted rates for home and auto loans

Eligibility for perks and benefits varies based on employee type and length of service.

Now is your moment to make a difference in the lives of the underserved.

If there is one unifying characteristic of everyone on our team, it is the deep desire to make a difference by helping society's most vulnerable and often overlooked individuals. Every day we have the distinct honor and responsibility to show up with non-judgmental compassion to provide hope and healing to those who need it most. For those whose calling it is to serve others, now is your moment to join our mission to provide quality care to every patient with compassion, collaboration, and innovation, to live our mantra to "Always Do The Right Thing!", and to collectively do our part to heal the world, one patient at a time.

Wellpath sees hundreds of thousands of unique individuals in their facilities month over month and a very large percent of those individuals receive direct clinical care, which includes lives saved by Narcan.

We offer ongoing training and development opportunities for licensed and unlicensed healthcare team members, and have best in class clinical resources for training, education, and point of care support.

The Telehealth Physician is responsible for remotely assessing and providing emergent medical care to patients through telehealth, while collaborating with onsite medical staff for optimal patient outcomes. This position also handles on-call responsibilities as assigned and operates in a matrixed environment, reporting to both the Telehealth Director for administrative matters and the Medical VP for clinical matters. The ideal candidate should possess excellent clinical judgment and communication skills for effective collaboration with medical staff and delivering quality care to patients.

• Rapidly assesses patients' physical and acute psychiatric health through telehealth and determines triage and treatment decisions in collaboration with onsite medical staff.
• Provides clinical oversight of assessment and reassessment, ongoing provision of care activities, and completion of all associated documentation by APPs.
• Provides on-call coverage for after-hours care of patients, treats medical problems including pharmacotherapy, makes referrals for tests and consultations, and follows up on results and recommendations.
• Provides education on the medical diagnoses to patients and onsite medical staff and collaborates with staff in other disciplines in an effective and professional manner.
• Demonstrates knowledge of care and treatment needs of patients of different ages and provides individualized care and treatment that is consistent with/sensitive to the age and life span developmental needs of each patient while complying with special precautions, disaster and fire safety procedures, and abuse reporting.

Candidates should have experience working in Emergency Medicine

Education

• Medical doctorate (MD) from an accredited university.

Experience

• Two (2) years post residency clinical experience in emergency medicine preferred.

Licenses/Certifications

• Licensed in the state of employment.
• Must be willing to add licenses in states where services are requested.
• Holding additional licenses is a benefit.
• Current Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and applicable certifications.
• Board certified or eligible in internal or family medicine.

This position is available only to those who reside in the United States.

We value the contributions of team members with a broad range of experiences, skills, and perspectives and are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all.

Deadline to apply to this position is contingent upon applicant volume. Those positions located in Colorado will have a specific deadline posted in the job description.

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