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Healthcare United
Cincinnati, Ohio

Primary Care Physician Opportunity in Ohio | Columbus & Cincinnati | $300K+ Potential | Value-Based Care

Primary Care 8.3 Work-LifeNo weekendsFull-Time

Listed compensation

$300K+ potential

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Employment & setting
Full-Time · on-site
Call expectations
Not specified
Weekends
No weekends
Posted 3mo ago

Job Description

Healthcare United is seeking a Lead Primary Care Physician for outpatient, value-based primary care opportunities in Columbus and Cincinnati, Ohio.

This is an excellent opportunity for a Family Medicine or Internal Medicine physician who is interested in a mission-driven primary care model with smaller patient panels, longer patient visits, strong team support, and a focus on improving outcomes for medically complex patient populations.

The physician will provide direct outpatient primary care while also serving as a clinical leader within an interdisciplinary care team. This role is ideal for a provider who enjoys patient care, team collaboration, population health, chronic disease management, and helping reduce avoidable ER visits, hospitalizations, and readmissions.

The care model is built around whole-person care, strong provider support, care coordination, behavioral health, pharmacy, social work, nursing, and clinical leadership.

  • Job Responsibilities
  • Provide outpatient primary care to adult patients in a value-based care setting
  • Manage chronic conditions, preventive care, acute visits, post-hospital follow-up, and ER follow-up
  • Lead and collaborate with an interdisciplinary care team
  • Support APPs, nurses, behavioral health, pharmacy, social work, nutrition, and care management teams
  • Help develop care plans for medically complex patients
  • Participate in population health huddles and quality improvement initiatives
  • Work to reduce avoidable ER visits, hospitalizations, and readmissions
  • Support transitional care planning across the continuum of care
  • Provide clinical leadership and mentorship to providers and staff
  • Use data, EHR tools, and quality metrics to improve patient outcomes
  • Serve as a clinical leader within the local market

Requirements

  • MD or DO degree required
  • Board Certified or Board Eligible in Family Medicine or Internal Medicine
  • Active or eligible for an unrestricted Ohio medical license
  • Primary care, outpatient medicine, community health, FQHC, or value-based care experience preferred
  • Clinical leadership experience preferred
  • Experience mentoring physicians, APPs, or care teams preferred
  • Comfortable caring for medically complex and underserved patient populations
  • Strong communication, leadership, organization, and problem-solving skills
  • Ability to work in a team-based, outcomes-driven care model
  • No visa sponsorship available for the Columbus role

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation with $300K+ potential
  • Cincinnati role may include signing bonus up to $50,000
  • Full-time outpatient schedule
  • Monday-Friday schedule
  • Smaller patient panels, generally around 10-12 patients per day
  • Longer patient visits and stronger provider-patient relationships
  • Value-based care model with strong team support

Interdisciplinary support including behavioral health, pharmacy, nursing, social work, nutrition, and care management

  • Opportunity to combine direct patient care with clinical leadership
  • Mission-driven work with medically complex patient populations
  • Supportive outpatient environment focused on quality outcomes

Key Responsibilities

Provide outpatient primary care to adult patients within a value-based care model, focusing on chronic disease management and reducing avoidable hospitalizations. Serve as a clinical leader by mentoring staff and collaborating with an interdisciplinary team to improve patient outcomes.

Qualifications

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

Certifications

Board Certification

Key Skills

Interdisciplinary Collaboration

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Primary Care Physician Opportunity in Ohio | Columbus & Cincinnati | $300K+ Potential | Value-Based Care at Healthcare United a 8.3 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as excellent. This places the position in the top 10% in Primary Care — ranked against 1,221 active Primary Care listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no weekend requirements.

Primary Care — Physician Career Context

Of the 50 active Primary Care listings this role was benchmarked against, 6% are remote, 48% have no call, 68% require no weekends.

Primary Care pay on WeekdayDoc is up 1.7% vs. the prior quarter (through Aug 2026).

The cost-of-living index for Ohio is 92.8 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$300k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $323k in an average-cost state. 61.3% of Ohio clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks48 jobs · 37 employers

401k / retirement match
96%
CME allowance
77%
Sign-on bonus
63% this job
Relocation assistance
52%
Loan repayment
38%

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Work-life snapshot

8.3/ 10
Listing-based score

Top 10% in Primary Care

  • No weekends
  • On-site

Living in Cincinnati

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$243k
Typical market rent
$1,414/mo
Residents’ average commute
22 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
95.4
State income tax
Up to 4%
Sources & methodology

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

BEA 2024 · Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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