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Hopscotch Primary Care
Spruce Pine, North Carolina

Part Time Medical Director

Family MedicinePart-Time

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Job Description

About Hopscotch Primary Care

At Hopscotch Primary Care, we believe great healthcare should be accessible to all people across all communities. Today, almost 20% of Americans live in a rural community, yet only 11% of physicians practice in those same communities. We are on a mission to transform healthcare in rural America.

We provide high-quality primary care tailored to meet the needs of our patients through our robust care model and comprehensive care team, delivering care in our clinics, and across settings, and wrapping resources around the patients who need them most.

Our patients and the care teams who serve them sit at the center of everything we do at Hopscotch. Hopscotch Primary Care takes a team approach to serve patient needs and provide the best care possible. Our goal is to provide the care each of us would want for ourselves or for our family members, in the right setting, and at the right time.

Today, we are serving thousands of patients in our value-based care model and the number is growing every day. If you want to bring your experience, skill and passion to make a lasting impact in healthcare, we’d like to meet you.

Lead a care team that's rethinking primary care

At Hopscotch Primary Care, we deliver the kind of care we'd want for our own families — high-touch, coordinated, and unhurried. We serve seniors in Western North Carolina with a team-based model built around one goal: the right care, in the right setting, at the right time.

As Medical Director, you'll lead the clinical team at our Spruce Pine clinic, care for your own panel of patients, and set the standard for how the Hopscotch care model comes to life every day. This is a hands-on leadership role: part exceptional physician, part team builder, part culture champion.

What You'll Do

Lead your clinical care team — Advanced Practitioners, Medical Assistants, Care Managers, and Community Health Workers — in delivering the Hopscotch care model

Care for your own panel of senior patients in our comprehensive, interdisciplinary model, delivering best-in-class outcomes

Coach your providers on panel management, documentation, and appropriate use of indirect care time — and hold the team accountable to a high standard

Partner with your Care Center Manager to outperform on the metrics that matter: patient experience, STARS/HEDIS, care coordination, utilization, and cost of care

Champion talent, culture, clinical innovation, and compliance across your center, acting as the standard-bearer for the Hopscotch care model

Represent Hopscotch in the community through education, engagement, and events such as health fairs and conferences

Who You Are

You Must Have

  • Board certification in Internal Medicine or Family Medicine
  • 3+ years of post-residency experience, including experience managing teams

An active, non-probationary North Carolina medical license (or willingness to obtain) and authorization to work in the US

It's a Plus If You Have

  • Experience with the Medicare population and at-risk / high-acuity panels
  • Familiarity with value-based or other innovative clinical care models
  • A track record of using data and insights to drive clinical action
  • Experience leading, teaching, and developing others, both formally and informally

The Way You Lead

High EQ. You build trust quickly with patients, providers, and partners — and you lean into the hard conversations rather than around them.

Steady in ambiguity. You bring structure and a proactive, prioritized approach to a fast-paced, evolving environment.

Humble and accountable. You lead by rolling up your sleeves, hold yourself and your team to a high bar, and set the tone for others to do the same.

  • Why Hopscotch
  • We built this team so clinicians can focus on patients, not paperwork:
  • Dedicated MA and Clinical Documentation Specialist — your charts come prepped, so you can focus on the patient
  • Longer appointment times with preparation and charting time built in
  • Smaller patient panels and an average of ~15 patients per day, for more customized care
  • Interdisciplinary care teams on site to support each patient's full wellness needs
  • AI dictation support to cut down documentation time
  • Flexible schedule options
  • Room to grow in a fast-scaling organization

Compensation & Benefits

  • Competitive salary and bonus structure
  • $25,000 sign on bonus
  • NHSC-eligible clinics with loan repayment options
  • Annual CME funding with dedicated days to use it
  • Generous Time Away From Work program: paid holidays + PTO
  • Company-sponsored medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family
  • Free short-term and long-term disability insurance
  • Free $100k life insurance policy
  • 401(k) with 4% company match and no vesting period
  • $720–$1,000 in annual employer HSA contributions for eligible health plans

Our Culture

We live by our values: Patients first, team always

  • Make every moment count
  • Bring joy to the journey
  • Data, Insight, Action
  • Rise to the challenge. If you're mission-driven, growth-minded, and want to help build something better in primary care, we'd love to meet you.

At Hopscotch Primary Care, we embrace diversity, invest in a culture of inclusion and positivity and encourage all to apply to join our team. You will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

Key Responsibilities

The Medical Director will lead the clinical team at the Spruce Pine clinic while managing a personal panel of senior patients. They are responsible for driving clinical outcomes, coaching providers, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality, value-based care.

Requirements

Candidates must hold board certification in Internal Medicine or Family Medicine with at least three years of post-residency experience. An active, non-probationary North Carolina medical license is required for this role.

Qualifications

Education
Professional certificate or licensure
Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Clinical leadershipTeam managementPatient careData analysisMentorshipStrategic planningCommunity engagementInterdisciplinary collaborationHigh-acuity care

Family Medicine — Physician Career Context

In North Carolina, the Family Medicine weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$219k (35 salary observations; 151 listings), vs ~$266k nationally (1,276 salary observations; 6,193 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 North Carolina is 94.3 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 59.2% of North Carolina clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Of the 50 active Family Medicine listings this role was benchmarked against, 10% are remote, 50% have no call, 54% require no weekends.

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Part Time Medical Director at Hopscotch Primary Care a 6.3 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the Above average in Family Medicine — ranked against 2,557 active Family Medicine listings on WeekdayDoc.

Top Family Medicine Jobs

50 matches · ranked by pay

Salary Distribution50 jobs · 36 employers

18
<$330k
12
$330k-360k
11
$360k-390k
7
$390k-420k
2
$420k+

Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks42 jobs · 36 employers

401k / retirement match
83% this job
Sign-on bonus
67% this job
CME allowance
60% this job
Relocation assistance
45%
Loan repayment
24% this job

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Work-life snapshot

median 6.2this job 6.3
Better work-life than 50% of Family Medicine listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 2,557 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

Living in Spruce Pine

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$302k
Median resident rent
$837/mo
Residents’ average commute
22 min
State income tax
Up to 4.8%
Sources & methodology

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

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

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About Hopscotch Primary Care

Hospitals and Health Care
Chicago, Illinois
51-200 employees

Benefits & Perks

$25,000 sign-on bonus
NHSC-eligible loan repayment
Annual CME funding
Generous PTO
Medical, dental, vision insurance
Short-term and long-term disability
$100k life insurance
401(k) with 4% match