Direct Primary Care Physician
Compensation
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Job Description
KerixHealth is a rapidly growing, innovative direct primary care healthcare company that provides higher quality health and wellness care to patients to improve outcomes, manage medical costs, and deliver an unmatched experience for individuals and for employers who choose to incorporate direct primary care into their employer-sponsored health plan.
Since 2016, KerixHealth has served individuals and employers in its four Chicagoland locations. KerixHealth is attracting and cultivating team members who embody KerixHealth’s values and are passionate about its mission to rebuild healthcare into what it should be.
Our mission at KerixHealth is to provide medical care that keeps pace with best clinical practices and the cutting edge of medical research and to provide quality customer service to all our patients without the time constraints that surround traditional primary care.
We’re currently hiring a Family Medicine or Med-Peds physician for our suburban Chicago office in Northbrook, Illinois, starting late 2026/early 2027. Must have a minimum of 5 years of experience post-residency.
Responsibilities
- Live KerixHealth’s mission to fix primary care
- Care for a panel of no more than 600 patients
- Be available via phone app for your own patient panel 24/7 (for emergencies only) except when on vacation
- Partner with other members of the KerixHealth team, including medical assistants, population health managers, third party administrators, benefit consultants, health plan sponsors, other KerixHealth physicians, and associates
- Participate in KerixHealth’s case conferences and continuing medical education conferences
Generous Benefits Package Includes
- Guaranteed salary unconnected to productivity (RVUs)
- Generous bonus structure tied to Net Promoter Score and other SMART metrics (NOT patient volume)
- Company-paid health care
- Generous 401K package
- Robust paid time off allowance
- CME and licensure reimbursement
- Other miscellaneous fringe benefits
- Medical malpractice coverage based on a tail
- Awesome people to work with and for!
If you're tired of having to see 20-24 patients per day and feel like you're continuously running on a treadmill and can't ever quite catch up, the direct primary care model is for you!
Qualifications
Requirements
- Board certification in family medicine, or internal medicine-pediatrics
- Currently licensed or able to become licensed in the state of Illinois
- The ability to build successful relationships with both patients and team members
- A commitment to practicing evidence-based medicine
- A passion for providing superior clinical care and customer service
- Values in line with company values (customer service, quality, intellectual horsepower, persistence, and efficiency)
- Compassionate, kind, and open-minded
- Zero dollar claims medical malpractice loss history
Working Hours
Monday-Friday, 8:30am-5pm
Qualifications
- Education
- Professional certificate or licensure
- Experience
- 5+ years of experience
Key Skills
Primary Care — Physician Career Context
Of the 50 active Primary Care listings this role was benchmarked against, 12% are remote, 46% have no call, 54% require no weekends.
For production-based offers, this specialty runs a typical 5,000 wRVUs per year (derived from CMS CPT-frequency data), and WeekdayDoc listings compensate a median of about $50 per wRVU — implying roughly $250k in production-based pay. For reference, the 2026 CMS Medicare conversion factor is $33.40 per RVU.
Work-Life Balance Analysis
WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Direct Primary Care Physician at Nextera HealthCare a 7.1 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as very good. This places the position in the Above average in Primary Care — ranked against 1,305 active Primary Care listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no weekend requirements.
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- No weekends
Living in Deerfield
- Typical 3-bedroom home value
- $555k
- Typical market rent
- $2,640/mo
- Residents’ average commute
- 28 min
- State income tax
- Up to 5%
Sources & methodology
Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.
City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.