Internal Medicine and Family Medicine Physician Openings- St. Louis Metro: Physician-Owners Making Decisions, Thrive Professionally and Personally
Listed compensation
$350k-$750k
The week · per this posting · Monday – FridayWeekdays only
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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
Key Skills
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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