Direct Primary Care Physician
Listed compensation
from $225,000
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Job Description
Get Your Passion for Medicine Back
Advocate MD is a physician-led Direct Primary Care (DPC) practice growing from eight doctors to ten across our five Madison-area clinics. We're looking for two Family Medicine physicians who want to practice real, relationship-based medicine - without the administrative grind of a large health system or the business burden of running your own solo practice.
If you're tired of 15-minute visits, endless charting, and fighting insurance companies for prior authorizations, this is the antidote.
What Makes This Different
Hour-long patient visits. Time to actually listen, diagnose, treat, and build real relationships.
Small panels, real care. You'll see roughly 6–7 patients per day - a fraction of the typical primary care volume.
Room to do procedures. Enough time in each visit to manage more of your patients' care yourself.
No insurance hassles. Direct Primary Care means no billing headaches, no prior-auth battles, and none of the administrative barriers that pull you away from medicine.
Physician-owned, physician-run. Enjoy the autonomy and lifestyle of DPC without the burden of owning and operating your own practice.
A true team. Join a collegial group of eight (soon to be ten) physicians across a well-established, five-clinic practice.
- Schedule & Path to Full Panel
- Full-time: 3.5–4 days per week
- Initial Panel: 225-250 patients, with ramp up at your speed
Full panel: 500–700 patients (panel size is your choice), at which point compensation reaches up to $300,000/year, scaled to panel size.
Compensation & Benefits
- Base salary from $225,000/year at 225 patients, with guaranteed pay during panel-building
- 401(k) with employer matching
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Paid time off
- Outstanding work-life balance
About Advocate MD
Advocate MD is a physician-led Direct Primary Care practice with locations in East Madison, Middleton, Fitchburg, Sun Prairie and Janesville, Wisconsin. Our model is built around the idea that medicine works best when physicians have the time and autonomy to truly know their patients - without the red tape of traditional fee-for-service care or the overhead and burden of running an independent practice.
Ready to Practice Medicine the Way You Trained For?
We'd love to meet you and talk about what practicing DPC medicine with Advocate MD looks like. Reach out today to learn more about joining our growing team.
Qualifications
- Doctorate in Medicine (MD/DO)
- Board Certified/Board Eligible (BC/BE) in Family Medicine
- Active Wisconsin medical license
- In-person role at our Madison-area clinics
Key Responsibilities
Provide high-quality, relationship-based primary care with hour-long patient visits and small patient panels. Manage patient care autonomously within a collaborative, physician-led team environment.
Qualifications
- Education
- Doctoral or professional degree (postgraduate degree)
- Experience
- 2+ years of experience
Certifications
Key Skills
Primary Care — Physician Career Context
Of the 50 active Physician listings this role was benchmarked against, 8% are remote, 52% have no call, 64% require no weekends.
The cost-of-living index for Wisconsin is 94.1 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$263k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $279k in an average-cost state. 60.7% of Wisconsin clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
Physician pay on WeekdayDoc is up 1.1% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).
Work-Life Balance Analysis
WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Direct Primary Care Physician at Nextera HealthCare a 6.0 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the Above average in Physician roles — ranked against 21,112 active Physician roles listings on WeekdayDoc.
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Living in Madison
- Typical 3-bedroom home value
- $433k≈ 1.9× annual pay
- Typical market rent
- $1,616/mo≈ 9% of gross pay
- Residents’ average commute
- 19 min
- Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
- 97.3
- State income tax
- Up to 7.7%
Sources & methodology
Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.
BEA 2024 · Madison, WI metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.
Ratios use this listing’s gross annual pay. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.