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St. Cloud, Minnesota

Pain Medicine Physician – Outpatient – St. Cloud, Minnesota

Pain Medicine 8.0 Work-LifeNo callNo weekendsNo nightsFull-Time

Listed compensation

Salary range: $475K–$640K

The week · per this posting · Monday – FridayWeekdays only

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Posted 6mo ago

Job Description

Opportunity to practice in a setting that values integrity, compassion, and meaningful patient connections.

Summary

Join a well-established Pain Medicine practice with a collaborative team of two physicians and four advanced practice providers, supported by dedicated pain pharmacy, nursing, and scheduling staff. The department emphasizes multimodal pain management in an outpatient interventional and clinic-based practice. This position offers a true no-call structure with no weekends or holidays, providing exceptional work–life balance.

Schedule: * Full-time | M-F | Onsite St. Cloud, Minnesota

  • Days-7-3pm (Procedure Days) and 8-4:30pm (Clinic Days)
  • Outreach
  • No Call, Weekends, or Holidays

Pay and Benefits

  • Salary range: $475,000 - $640,000 per year
  • Pay may be determined by factors such as education, experience, skills, knowledge, location, and internal equity
  • Salary and salary range are based on a 1.0 FTE, reduced FTE will result in a prorated offer rate
  • May be eligible for additional pay through bonuses, quality incentives, or production-based (RVU) compensation.
  • Benefits: Medical, dental, time off, retirement, employee discounts and more!

Qualifications

Required

  • BE/BC Pain Medicine
  • Eligibility for Minnesota medical licensure
  • ACGME Certified fellowship in Pain Medicine

Department Information

The Pain Medicine Department provides multidisciplinary care for patients with a broad range of conditions, including chronic low back and neck pain, radiculopathy and neuropathic pain, fibromyalgia, post-laminectomy syndrome, complex regional pain syndrome, cancer-related pain, vertebral compression fractures, and lumbar spinal stenosis.

Common procedures include epidural steroid injections, facet joint injections and medial branch blocks, radiofrequency ablation, spinal cord stimulation, peripheral nerve blocks, basivertebral nerve ablation, minimally invasive lumbar decompression, and kyphoplasty. Care is supported by state-of-the-art resources, including fluoroscopy suites with C-arm technology, in-clinic ultrasound, hospital operating rooms, and ambulatory surgery center access.

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CentraCare

CentraCare, a leading not-for-profit health system and one of the largest providers of rural care, serves patients across Central, West Central, and Southwestern Minnesota.

It delivers nationally recognized care through 40+ medical and surgical specialties, innovative population health programs, and a collaborative physician–administration leadership model.

St. Cloud Hospital, a 489-bed regional referral center and Level II trauma center, delivers comprehensive inpatient and outpatient services with Magnet-designated nursing and expert support staff. Just 60 minutes from Minneapolis-St. Paul, the St.

Cloud region is a family-friendly mini-metro featuring excellent schools and four colleges, vibrant arts and theatre, abundant lakes and outdoor recreation, and year-round activities for all seasons.

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Key Responsibilities

The physician will provide multidisciplinary care for patients with chronic pain conditions in an outpatient interventional and clinic-based setting. Responsibilities include performing various pain management procedures and collaborating with a team of physicians and advanced practice providers.

Qualifications

Education
Professional certificate or licensure
Experience
5+ years of experience

Certifications

Board Certification

Key Skills

Interventional pain management

Pain Medicine — Physician Career Context

Of the 50 active Pain Medicine listings this role was benchmarked against, 2% are remote, 76% have no call, 66% require no weekends.

Pain Medicine pay on WeekdayDoc is down 12.5% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).

For production-based offers, this specialty runs a typical 5,500 wRVUs per year (derived from CMS CPT-frequency data), and WeekdayDoc listings compensate a median of about $52 per wRVU — implying roughly $286k 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 Pain Medicine Physician – Outpatient – St. Cloud, Minnesota at Centra Care a 8.0 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as excellent. This places the position in the top 10% in Pain Medicine — ranked against 132 active Pain Medicine listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no on-call duties, no weekend requirements, no night shifts.

Top Pain Medicine Jobs

28 matches · ranked by pay

Salary Distribution28 jobs · 20 employers

14
<$510k
5
$510k-640k
1
$662k
3
$770k-900k
5
$900k

Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks26 jobs · 20 employers

401k / retirement match
73%
Sign-on bonus
69%
Loan repayment
35%
CME allowance
35%
Relocation assistance
23%

Share of similar jobs offering each benefit

#1

Interventional Pain Physician

MASC Medical · Las Vegas, Nevada

$400k-$900k
#2

Physician - Anesthesiology - Up to $150K Sign On Bonus!

Med America · Dublin, Ohio

$275k-$900k
#3

Physician - Anesthesiology - CommonSpirit St. Francis Hospital

$275k-$900k
#4

Physician - Anesthesiology

$275k-$900k
+ 26 more · ranked by pay

Work-life snapshot

median 6.0this job 8.0
Among the best 10% of Pain Medicine listings for work-life

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 132 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • No call
  • No weekends
  • No nights

Living in St. Cloud

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$252k≈ 0.5× annual pay
Typical market rent
$1,244/mo≈ 3% of gross pay
Residents’ average commute
20 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
104.8
State income tax
Up to 9.8%
Sources & methodology

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

BEA 2024 · Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

Ratios use this listing’s gross annual pay. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.

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About Centra Care

Hospitals and Health Care
St. Cloud, MN
5,001-10,000 employees

Benefits & Perks

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Time Off
Retirement
Employee Discounts
Potential Bonuses