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Houston, Texas

Hospice Visit Physician (Field)

Hospice and Palliative MedicineIncludes callNo weekendsPer Diem

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Job Description

  • Find Your Passion and Purpose as a Hospice Visit Physician
  • Location: Houston, TX
  • Coverage Area: Greater Houston area
  • Salary: Per visit
  • Schedule: PRN, Weekdays

What You Need to Know

Overview

AccentCare is seeking a hospice field visit physician that can provide compassionate, patient-centered medical care to individuals with serious, advanced, or terminal illnesses. This role is responsible for conducting hospice and/or palliative care visits, evaluating patients for hospice eligibility and recertification, managing pain and symptoms, and supporting patients and families through goals-of-care and advance care planning discussions.

Job Responsibilities

  • Evaluate patients for pain, symptom management, and hospice eligibility (admissions and recertifications).
  • Counsel patients and families on care options and advance care planning.
  • Order tests, initiate treatment, and conduct face-to-face visits as needed.
  • Serve as Attending Physician when appropriate.
  • Coordinate care with interdisciplinary teams and communicate with attending physicians to ensure continuity.
  • Manage patient medications.
  • Participate in on-call rotation and provide 24/7 availability when assigned.
  • Complete timely and compliant clinical documentation.
  • If you meet these qualifications, we would love to meet you:
  • Must be a licensed Medical Doctor (M.D.) or Doctor of Osteopathy (D.O.) in the state(s) of practice, with training or experience in caring for chronically or terminally ill patients
  • Maintains active DEA license

Valid Driver’s License

  • Working knowledge of hospice and palliative care, including pain and symptom management.
  • Familiarity with hospice regulations and Medicare requirements.
  • Strong clinical judgment and decision-making skills.
  • Excellent communication skills for interaction with patients, families, and providers.
  • Ability to manage complex clinical and ethical situations in end-of-life care.
  • (Preferred) Hospice or hospice visit experience

Why AccentCare?

Caring for others is more than what you do — it’s who you are. At AccentCare, you’ll join a purpose-driven, collaborative culture that sets the standard for excellence and gives you the trust and tools to do your best work. You’ll belong to a team that cares deeply for patients and each other; a team committed to consistently providing exceptional care.

We’re proud to be named one of America’s Greatest Workplaces 2025 by Newsweek — a reflection of our shared commitment to excellence, integrity and compassion as we shape the future of aging in place. When you thrive, so does the community of care we’re building together.

Key Responsibilities

The physician will conduct hospice and palliative care visits to evaluate patients for eligibility, manage pain and symptoms, and support families with care planning. They are responsible for coordinating care with interdisciplinary teams and maintaining timely, compliant clinical documentation.

Requirements

Candidates must be a licensed Medical Doctor (M.D.) or Doctor of Osteopathy (D.O.) with an active DEA license and a valid driver's license. Experience in caring for chronically or terminally ill patients and knowledge of hospice regulations are required.

Qualifications

Education
Professional certificate or licensure
Experience
5+ years of experience

Key Skills

Hospice carePain managementPatient assessmentMedical decision-makingInterdisciplinary team coordinationMedication managementHospice eligibility evaluation

Hospice and Palliative Medicine — Physician Career Context

In Texas, the Physician weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$317k (323 salary observations; 3,215 listings), vs ~$307k nationally (9,802 salary observations; 60,847 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2025-11-01 through 2026-10-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.

Physician pay on WeekdayDoc is up 1.7% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).

Physician by the numbers
MeasureThis jobMarket
Work-life score3.6 / 10 · above average in hospice and palliative medicineranked against 139 Hospice And Palliative Medicine listingslisting-based score, 0–10
Listed paynot listedPhysician median $285k (middle half $273k–$315k)18 comparable listings, Oct 2026
Texas vs national$317k median in Texas$307k nationally (+3%)323 state / 9,802 national salary observations
Cost of livingTexas index 97.1US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
Physician listings in Texas1,599 active22,554 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Oct 2026
Sign-on & loan repaymentnot statedTexas Physician listings: 22% state a sign-on bonus (median $75k) · 5% offer loan repayment1,000 active listings, Oct 2026
Physician pay trend+1.7% vs prior quarter—through Sep 2026
Sources: WeekdayDoc live listing index (139 Hospice And Palliative Medicine listings), BEA Regional Price Parities (2024); as of Oct 2026. Same values as the Weekday Verdict and Market Insights on this page.

Location & Logistics

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

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Work-life snapshot

median 2.6this job 3.6
Better work-life than 70% of Hospice And Palliative Medicine listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 139 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • No weekends
  • Includes call

Living in Houston

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$243k
Typical market rent
$1,544/mo
Residents’ average commute
27 min
State income tax
None
Sources & methodology

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

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