PRN Physician Assistant | Urgent Care | Central Texas

Physician AssistantNo callPer Diem

Compensation

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Posted 2mo ago

Job Description

Freedom Urgent Care is seeking an experienced Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant to join our dynamic, growing team in a PRN capacity. As a high-performing organization, we pride ourselves on our supportive culture and dedication to delivering compassionate, high-quality care to our community. Location options in Harker Heights, Killeen, Belton, & Temple.

About the Position

  • Flexible, shift-based schedule
  • Typically 12-hour shifts
  • Minimum commitment of 2 shifts per month
  • Outpatient only, no call requirements
  • Clinic hours are M-F 8 am to 9 pm, Sat/Sun 9 am to 6 pm
  • Onsite Lab, X-Ray, and POC Testing
  • Robust support staff
  • Epic EMR
  • High growth service area

Recruitment Package Include

  • Base Salary + wRVU
  • Paid malpractice coverage
  • Marketing + practice growth assistance

About Your Hospital

Seton Medical Center Harker Heights (SMCHH) is an 83-bed acute care hospital opened in 2012 in Harker Heights, Texas, offering an array of services such as a Cardiology, Emergency Services and a Level IV Trauma Designated Emergency Room, General Surgery, Orthopedic Surgery, Total Joint Replacement, Gastroenterology, Diagnostic Services and more.

Our award-winning staff provides patient care with dignity and respect. We are also Joint Commission Accredited, an Accredited Chest Pain Center, and Advanced Primary Stroke Center.

About Your Community

  • Located in Central Texas 70 miles north of Austin in the 5th fastest growing Texas MSA
  • Housing, Cost of Living, and Crime Rate substantially lower than the national average

With 2 large recreational lakes, outdoor activities including boating, water skiing, fishing, hiking, biking, and hunting

Residents enjoy high-performing schools and proximity to multiple Universities and Colleges including the University of Texas, University of Texas A&M, and Baylor University.

No state income tax!

Key Responsibilities

Provide compassionate, high-quality urgent care to patients in a clinic setting. Perform clinical duties including onsite lab, X-ray, and point-of-care testing while utilizing the Epic EMR system.

Requirements

Must be an experienced Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant. Requires a minimum commitment of two 12-hour shifts per month.

Qualifications

Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Clinical assessmentX-ray interpretationLab testingTrauma care

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates PRN Physician Assistant | Urgent Care | Central Texas at Seton Medical Center Harker Heights a 6.4 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the top 25% in Urgent Care (PA) — ranked against 368 active Urgent Care (PA) listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no on-call duties.

Urgent Care — Physician Assistant Career Context

Of the 50 active Urgent Care listings this role was benchmarked against, 6% are remote, 52% have no call, 56% require no weekends.

Urgent Care pay on WeekdayDoc is up 7.2% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).

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.

Location & Logistics

Texas has no state income tax, which can significantly increase take-home pay compared to high-tax states.

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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks42 jobs · 39 employers

CME allowance
74%
401k / retirement match
74%
Sign-on bonus
43%
Relocation assistance
12%
Loan repayment
7%

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Work-life snapshot

median 4.2this job 6.4
Better work-life than 80% of Urgent Care (PA) listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 368 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • No call

Living in Killeen

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$197k
Typical market rent
$1,273/mo
Residents’ average commute
26 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
91.1
State income tax
None
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · Killeen-Temple, TX metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.

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About Seton Medical Center Harker Heights

Hospitals and Health Care
Harker Heights, TX
201-500 employees

Benefits & Perks

Base Salary + wRVU
Paid malpractice coverage
Marketing + practice growth assistance
Flexible schedule
Outpatient only
No call