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Esse Health
St. Louis, Missouri

Internal Medicine and Family Medicine Physician Openings- St. Louis Metro: Physician-Owners Making Decisions, Thrive Professionally and Personally

Family MedicineNo weekendsNo nightsFull-Time

Listed compensation

$350k-$750k

The week · per this posting · Monday – FridayWeekdays only

Ask the employer about the work setting and call expectations.

Posted 7mo ago

Job Description

Join Our Team

At Esse Health, we believe physicians deserve a workplace where they can practice medicine the way it’s meant to be—patient centered, collaborative, and supported by a culture that values innovation and work life balance.

If you’re looking for a place where your ideas matter and your impact is felt every day, Esse Health is where you can truly thrive.

We are seeking a compassionate, entrepreneurial-minded Internal Medicine or

Family Medicine physician to join our team as a partner, playing a key role in shaping the future, growth, and direction of our organization.

What Sets Us Apart

  • Achieve a healthy work-life balance with control over your practice, schedule, staff and more
  • Collegial and supportive partners offering support, mentorship, and collaboration
  • Onboarding, business, and practice ramp up support provided
  • Resources, training on best practices, and a strong infrastructure to support patient care beyond the clinic
  • An environment free from hospital bureaucracy that allows faster decision-making and autonomy
  • 20% lower average cost of care compared to hospitals

What We Offer

  • Shareholder track
  • 3-year guaranteed salary
  • No cap on earning potential: Physicians are earning between $350K-$750K
  • 4 weeks paid time off, paid holidays, and 5 paid days for CME, with even more flexibility as a shareholder
  • Profit sharing: % based on years in practice, not solely with Esse Health
  • 7% for 0-9 years, 11% for 10+ years
  • 401k with match
  • Sign-on, relocation, and CME allowance
  • Available benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Long/Short Term

Disability, Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account, Fraud

Protection, Legal, Pet and other miscellaneous

Practice Details

  • Work alongside established Physician partners with Nurse Practitioners,

Medical Assistants, an Office Manager, and additional support staff

  • Option for outpatient only
  • Monday - Friday
  • No nights, weekends, or holidays
  • Schedule: 4.5 days patient care with.5 days set aside for administrative work
  • Call: phone only, light and typically triaged first
  • See 16-20 patients per day on average
  • Ability to incorporate sub-specialty care
  • Opportunity to mentor medical students and residents if desired
  • Provide evidence-based and value-based care
  • Medicare Advantage panel management, providing high-quality, coordinated care to improve outcomes and reduce costs is large focus of practice
  • Fee for Service/Commercial patient care also provided
  • NextGen EMR

About Esse Health, a Surround Care Company

  • Physician-owned and managed for over 30 years
  • Independent, multi-specialty group: Allergy & Immunology, Child Psychiatry,

Family Medicine, Gastroenterology, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, and Urology

  • 150 providers across 40 locations in the St. Louis metro area and surrounding communities, from Shiloh, IL to Washington, MO
  • Disease Management Programs: Diabetes, Heart Failure, COPD, Obesity,

Palliative C.A.R.E Program, Wellness Program

  • Care Management support team includes In-Practice Health Coaches, Dietitians,

Home Health, Transition Care, Memory Care, Behavioral Health Referral process, Facility Case managers, Hospice/ Palliative care, Fit Kits, and much more

  • Hospital at Home Services: Home Care, Home Medical Equipment, Pharmacy, Lab,

Infusion Pharmacy, Imaging, EMS Transport, Remote Monitoring and more

  • Practice Support Services: EMR (NextGen), Care Management, Lab, Corporate

Development, IT, Ins/Patient Accts, Clinical Programs, Credentialing, Human

Resources, Coding/Compliance, Quality, Practice Operations,

Finance/Accounting, Purchasing, In-House Legal, Marketing, and Hospital at

Home

Requirements

  • MD or DO
  • Must be Board Certified or Board Eligible with plans to certify (AB or AOA)
  • Missouri licensed or eligible to obtain licensure in Missouri

To Apply or Learn More, Contact

  • Kathy Berry
  • Physician Recruiter kberry@essehealth.com
  • 314-851-1033

Key Responsibilities

The physician will join as a partner, playing a key role in shaping the organization's future, growth, and direction while practicing patient-centered medicine. Responsibilities include providing evidence-based and value-based care, focusing on Medicare Advantage panel management to improve outcomes and reduce costs.

Qualifications

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

Certifications

Board Certification

Key Skills

Patient Centered CareEntrepreneurial MindsetPractice AutonomyEvidence Based CareEMR ProficiencyMentoring

Family Medicine — Physician Career Context

In Missouri, the Family Medicine weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$305k (21 salary observations; 100 listings), vs ~$263k nationally (1,910 salary observations; 6,502 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 Missouri is 90.8 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$550k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $606k in an average-cost state. 60.1% of Missouri clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Of the 50 active Family Medicine listings this role was benchmarked against, 6% are remote, 50% have no call, 72% require no weekends.

Esse Health holds silver-tier status on WeekdayDoc's Top Employers work-life index, composite score 79/100, 32 active listings.

Family Medicine pay on WeekdayDoc is down 3.2% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Internal Medicine and Family Medicine Physician Openings- St. Louis Metro: Physician-Owners Making Decisions, Thrive Professionally and Personally at Esse Health a 6.9 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the Above average in Family Medicine — ranked against 2,556 active Family Medicine listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no weekend requirements, no night shifts, flexible scheduling.

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Salary Distribution48 jobs · 34 employers

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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks41 jobs · 34 employers

401k / retirement match
85% this job
Sign-on bonus
66% this job
CME allowance
54% this job
Relocation assistance
39% this job
Loan repayment
24%

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Work-life snapshot

median 6.2this job 6.9
Better work-life than 70% of Family Medicine listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 2,556 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • No weekends
  • No nights

Living in St. Louis

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$258k≈ 0.7× annual pay
Typical market rent
$1,334/mo≈ 5% of gross pay
Residents’ average commute
22 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
95.1
State income tax
Up to 5.3%
Sources & methodology

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

BEA 2024 · St. Louis, MO-IL metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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