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Intermountain Health
Lafayette, Colorado

PRN Neurosurgeon

SurgeryIncludes weekendsPer Diem

Listed compensation

$407/hr

The week · per this posting · Monday – Friday

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Job Description

When you join us, you’ll become a part of a nationally recognized health system dedicated to our mission of “helping people live the healthiest lives possible.”

About This Role

You will be a part of creating a Neuroscience Center of Excellence at Lutheran Hospital and Good Samaritan Hospital where you will help build on an already solid foundation of a broad continuum of care for brain and spine patients. Here are just some of the highlights you can expect:

You would practice at Intermountain Health Lutheran Hospital in Wheat Ridge, CO and Intermountain Health Good Samaritan Hospital in Lafayette, CO; occasionally seeing patients at Wheat Ridge and Lafayette Clinics

  • Dedicated days at each facility; not covering two facilities at the same time
  • Clinics are open 5 days per week, M-F
  • Designated Neuro Critical Care unit and epilepsy monitoring unit with a strong nursing staff
  • Growing Primary Care referral base within Intermountain Health Medical Group

How We'll Support You

Our competitive compensation includes $2,360/24hr shift and $407/hr call back rate.

We cover travel expenses (flights/hotels as needed) and professional liability. Learn more about our comprehensive benefits package.

What You’ll Bring

  • We hire people, not words on paper. But we also expect excellence, which is why we require:
  • MD/DO education
  • Current, unrestricted CO license or able to obtain, required
  • Board Certified or Eligible by the American Board of Neurological Surgery, required
  • Will consider newly graduated Neurosurgery residents
  • Trained in both brain and spine surgeries, required

About Us

Intermountain Health is a model health system by providing extraordinary care and superior service at an affordable cost. We are an integrated not-for-profit system of 33 hospitals, 385 clinics, and a medical group with more than 5,000 employed physicians and advanced practice providers across seven states in the mountain west.

Our value statements are core to our culture. They reflect the behavior and attitudes that are important to us, are an agreement for how we treat each other, help us make decisions on how to act, and are a promise of what people can expect from us. Learn more about our Mission, Vision, and Values at: About Intermountain!

What does it mean to be a part of Intermountain Health?

It means joining the Power of We, building an environment where providers and caregivers can deliver the best in healthcare. Realizing each caregiver and volunteer is vital to providing care to our patients, because WE can only achieve the extraordinary together. Committed to the best in research and most advanced technology, the results are better clinical patient outcomes.

Location: Good Samaritan Hospital, Intermountain Health Lutheran Hospital, Lafayette Clinic, Wheat Ridge Clinic

Work City

Lafayette

Work State

Colorado

Scheduled Weekly Hours

0

The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience.

$7.25 - $999.99

We care about your well-being – mind, body, and spirit – which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.

Learn more about our comprehensive benefits package here.

By applying for a position with Intermountain, I acknowledge that I will comply with all applicable Intermountain policies and expectations.

If applying for a remote or hybrid role, this includes remote work expectations related to confidentiality, information security, work schedules, conflicts of interest, and use of company equipment.

I further acknowledge that outside employment or activities may not interfere with job responsibilities or create a conflict of interest with Intermountain.

Actual or reasonably perceived conflicts may be grounds for disqualification from consideration or, if hired, corrective action up to and including termination of employment.

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Key Responsibilities

The neurosurgeon will provide specialized care for brain and spine patients at Intermountain Health facilities. Responsibilities include performing surgeries and seeing patients at designated clinics and hospital units.

Requirements

Candidates must hold an MD or DO degree and possess a current, unrestricted Colorado medical license. Board certification or eligibility by the American Board of Neurological Surgery is required, and training in both brain and spine surgery is mandatory.

Qualifications

Education
Doctoral or professional degree (postgraduate degree)

Key Skills

Brain surgeryPatient careClinical practice

Surgery — Physician Career Context

Of the 40 active Surgery listings this role was benchmarked against, 95% have no call, 95% require no weekends.

Surgery pay on WeekdayDoc is up 16.1% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).

The cost-of-living index for Colorado is 103.1 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 60.9% of Colorado clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks40 jobs · 7 employers

401k / retirement match
98%
Sign-on bonus
13%
CME allowance
13%
Relocation assistance
8%

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Work-life snapshot

median 3.9this job 1.5
Below most Surgery listings for work-life

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 932 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • Includes weekends

Living in Lafayette

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$615k
Typical market rent
$2,189/mo
Residents’ average commute
24 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
105.2
State income tax
Up to 4.4%
Sources & methodology

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

BEA 2024 · Boulder, CO metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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

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