SPECIAL OPERATIONS TEAM (THE) - EM - SPECIAL OPERATIONS PHYSICIAN
Listed compensation
$325-$345/hr
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- Employment & setting
- Contract
- Call expectations
- Not specified
- Weekends
- Not specified
Job Description
DESCRIPTION
Do you want to live in New York City and practice emergency medicine where you
can truly make a difference and earn great money? You can be based in NYC, work
blocked shifts in select emergency departments in the northeast, have your
travel paid and earn free hotels and flights to enjoy on your blocked time off!
Curious about the role of a special operations team physician? A special ops
physician is assigned to one ED at a time providing quality care to patients.
Our team physicians can count on continuous work due to planned assignments. If
you are board certified or eligible in ABEM or AOBEM with emergency medicine
residency training, you are just right for this role! TeamHealth will obtain any
additional licenses and DEAs for the designated states if needed.
If you are a team player with excellent communication skills, and you are
adaptive and flexible to meet the needs of those you care for, we are looking
for someone like you!
What makes TeamHealth's Special Ops Team elite?
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To learn more about how our travel team provides a great work/life balance and
premium pay, apply today!
Competitive compensation, with an estimated hourly range of $325/hour to
$345/hour.
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City Caption
Live where you want, practice where you're needed!
City Description
As a special operations physician, you can live where you want and practice
where you're needed. Choose your ideal city anywhere within the U. S. - we'll fly
you to work.
Facility Caption
Special Operations Team
Facility Description
Special Operations team members are credentialed at multiple emergency medicine
client sites within a specified geography and serve as clinical "top guns" for
our clients. A special ops team member must be adaptive and possess excellent
communication skills and a team-player attitude. Flexibility and the ability to
travel are a must.
Job Benefits
- Excellent alternative to locums with comparable pay and consistent work with
- Generous sign-on bonus
- Augment your EM practice experience by working in a variety of settings
- Blocked time off, enhanced work/life balance
- Paid travel and accommodations with easy travel booking and expense
- TeamHealth Institute resources and free CME
- Leadership development
- Wellbeing Resources concierge program including the Grokker App with programs
- Superb licensing and credentialing support
- Professional liability insurance with tail coverage
- Membership in TeamHealth's leading Patient Safety Organization
- Support of national network of emergency medicine experts
Key Responsibilities
The special operations physician provides high-quality emergency medical care at various client sites within a specified geography. They must be adaptive and maintain excellent communication while working in diverse clinical settings.
Requirements
Candidates must be board certified or eligible in ABEM or AOBEM with completed emergency medicine residency training. Excellent communication skills, flexibility, and the ability to travel are required for this role.
Qualifications
- Experience
- 2+ years of experience
Certifications
Key Skills
Emergency Medicine — Physician Career Context
In New York, the Emergency Medicine weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$360k (48 salary observations; 92 listings), vs ~$324k nationally (759 salary observations; 2,139 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2025-12-01 through 2026-09-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.
Of the 34 active Emergency Medicine listings this role was benchmarked against, 9% are remote, 88% have no call, 50% require no weekends.
Emergency Medicine pay on WeekdayDoc is up 9.1% vs. the prior quarter (through Aug 2026).
The cost-of-living index for New York is 107.9 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$697k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $646k in an average-cost state. 64.6% of New York clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
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Living in New York
- Typical 3-bedroom home value
- $876k
- Typical market rent
- $4,154/mo
- Residents’ average commute
- 40 min
- State income tax
- Up to 10.9%
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.