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Vighter Management Group
Fort Hood, Texas

Physician (Hospitalist)

Hospital MedicineIncludes callIncludes weekendsContract

Compensation

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Posted 1mo ago

Job Description

Title: Physician (Hospitalist)

Location: Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center, 36065 Santa Fe Ave, Fort Hood, TX 76544

Position Type: Full time (30-40+ hours/week), 1099

FLSA Status: Exempt

Education Level: MD or DO

Job Category: Healthcare

Our Company Promise

We are committed to providing our Employees a stable work environment with equal opportunity for learning and personal growth. Vighter’s Mission is to provide efficient, fast, high-quality healthcare staffing to our clients. Our Culture’s 5 key elements are crucial to the effectiveness of our employees in accomplishing our mission. These elements are:

  • Dependability
  • Integrity
  • Personability
  • Transparency
  • Responsiveness

Creating and cultivating this Culture within the organization is our commitment to our employees. Above all, Vighter employees will be provided the same concern, respect, and caring attitude that they are expected to share externally with every Vighter Client and Customer.

Summary

Vighter is recruiting a Physician (Hospitalist / General Medicine) to serve at Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center at and around Fort Hood, TX. This role delivers patient-centered, evidence-based care while ensuring compliance with federal and state regulations, and Vighter clinical policies.

The Hospitalist is a medical doctor who cares for patients only while they are in the hospital. They manage daily care, order tests, and direct treatment from admission until discharge, acting as the main doctor on site instead of an outside primary care physician.

Vighter is a Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) which provides professional healthcare staffing services to Federal, State, and Local government clients. The company is quality focused and registered ISO 9001:2015 and accredited by The Joint Commission in Healthcare Staffing Services.

Principle Accountabilities

  • Performs diagnosis and treatment of the more complex internal medicine problems referred.
  • Apply advanced professional knowledge of areas within the field of internal medicine to include, but not limited to, hematology, cardiology, gastroenterology, rheumatology, endocrinology, pulmonary medicine, infectious disease, and nephrology.
  • Provide inpatient consultation during normal duty hours. May be required to provide consultation outside of normal duty hours.
  • Provide assessments, diagnosis, and treatment in the areas of infectious disease, allergic, metabolic, neurological endocrine, cardiac, pulmonary, gastrointestinal, hematologic, renal, musculoskeletal, emotional disorders, acute trauma, burns, and removal of foreign bodies from body orifices.
  • Shall take in hospital call in rotation with other physicians.
  • An unshakeable adherence to quality and continuous process improvement.
  • An apolitical, patient-centered focus that drives to enhanced care and patient satisfaction
  • Knowledge of regulations (HIPAA/Privacy Act) regarding the confidentiality of patient medical records and information as well as Personally Identifiable Information (PII).
  • Performs other duties that may be assigned from time to time.

Knowledge and Skills

  • Must have exceptional customer service skills.
  • Employees shall be technically proficient in the skills necessary to fulfill the job requirements, including ability to speak, understand, read and write English fluently.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced changing environment with limited supervision
  • Excellent organizational, scheduling and prioritization skills.

Education

  • Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathy (DO) from an accredited medical school.
  • Active, unrestricted medical license in the state of practice.
  • Graduation from a medical school in the United States, Canada, or approved by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education of the American Medical Association (AMA), graduation from a college of osteopathy approved by the American Osteopathic Association (AOA), or graduation from a medical school with evidence of Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) certification as identified in the base contract

Qualifications

  • Shall possess a minimum of two (2) years of post-residency clinical experience within the last three (3) years providing direct patient care in pediatric medicine. Experience must demonstrate recent hands-on proficiency in evaluating, diagnosing, and managing pediatric patients across a broad spectrum of acute and chronic medical conditions in accordance with current clinical standards of practice.

Duty Hours / On-call Requirements

  • Work schedules for all labor categories will range between the hours of 0530 and 2230, Sunday through Saturday, and may include days, evening, nights, weekends, training holidays, and Federal holidays. Hereinafter training and Federal holidays will be referred to as "all holidays." Shifts may be scheduled for up to 16-hour periods but will normally be scheduled for up to 12-hour periods.

Work Environment

  • Location: Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center and Community and Outlying Medical Treatment Facilities.
  • Supportive team of healthcare professionals and administrative staff.

Travel

  • As required to satisfy the contractual obligations. Commuting is non-compensatory. All official travel is government funded.

Benefits

  • 1099, weekly or monthly pay.

Physical Requirements

  • Must be able to stand or sit for more than 8 hours per day.
  • Must be able to use an elevator or walk up & down stairs.
  • Must be able to lift up to 40 pounds and carry up to 10 feet.
  • Must be able to routinely grasp or handle objects, use finger dexterity, bend elbows/knees and reach above and below shoulders.
  • Must be able to read and interpret handwritten and typewritten print.
  • Must be able to communicate by voice and detect sound by ear.
  • Must be able to perform duties in an indoor office or outdoor environment.
  • Must be able to pass a criminal background investigation.
  • Must undergo Urine Drug Screening (UDS).
  • Must be a Citizen of the United States or legally authorized to work in the United States of America.

Vighter LLC is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

In accordance with recent Executive Orders (EO 14151, EO 14168 and EO 14173,) Vighter LLC is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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Key Responsibilities

The Hospitalist manages daily patient care, orders tests, and directs treatment from admission until discharge at the medical center. They perform diagnoses and provide inpatient consultations for complex internal medicine cases while ensuring compliance with clinical policies.

Qualifications

Education
Doctoral or professional degree (postgraduate degree)
Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Treatment planningClinical documentationHIPAA complianceEvidence-based medicineAcute trauma managementInfectious disease management

Hospital Medicine — Physician Career Context

In Texas, the Hospital Medicine weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$275k (15 salary observations; 131 listings), vs ~$308k nationally (405 salary observations; 3,212 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2025-12-01 through 2026-10-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.

The cost-of-living index for Texas is 97.1 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 57.7% of Texas clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Of the 49 active Hospital Medicine listings this role was benchmarked against, 78% have no call, 41% require no weekends.

Hospital Medicine pay on WeekdayDoc is up 6.0% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Physician (Hospitalist) at Vighter Management Group a 6.1 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the top 25% in Hospital Medicine — ranked against 1,192 active Hospital Medicine listings on WeekdayDoc.

Location & Logistics

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

Top contract/1099 Hospital Medicine Jobs

24 matches · ranked by pay

Salary Distribution24 jobs · 8 employers

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17
$300k-350k
4
$350k+

Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks23 jobs · 8 employers

401k / retirement match
96%
Sign-on bonus
9%
CME allowance
9%
Relocation assistance
9%
PSLF eligible
9%

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Work-life snapshot

median 2.1this job 6.1
Better work-life than 90% of Hospital Medicine listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 1,192 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • Includes call
  • Includes weekends

Living in Fort Hood

Median resident rent
$1,406/mo≈ 5% of gross pay
Residents’ average commute
11 min
State income tax
None
Sources & methodology

Sources: U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

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

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Benefits & Perks

1099, weekly or monthly pay