Job Type: Full-Time Ophthalmologist
Subspecialty: Cornea, Medical Retina
Practice Location: Chico, CA
Population: The patient base is from Butte and surrounding counties as they are rural communities. We have patients from Shasta, Plumas, Yuba, and Sutter counties, but those patients have multiple options for their care.
Butte County – 207,172
Tehema County – 64,896
Glenn County – 28,129
Physician/ Population Ratio: 21,450, but over half of the ophthalmologists are about 10 years from retiring. At least 2 of them are 5 years away.
MD Or Corporate Owned: MD owned
Reason for Job Opening: Departing Doctors in December 2025 and after
If Physician is retiring, how much longer will Physician Work: the retiring doctors will stay 2 years, but is open to lessening hours to allow new recruits to build a patient base
Experience Requirement: Board Eligible
Partnership Opportunity: Yes
Target Compensation: $350,000
Bonus Opportunity: 30% of net collections after 3x base met
Retirement Program: 401 k with 3% contribution
Other Benefits: medical insurance, reimbursement of $3,000/year for continuing education, reimbursement for licensure and society dues, employer paid liability insurance.
Relocation: reimbursement of up to $10,000, but can take some guidance from you on this.
Vacation/PTO: 1 week of sick and 3 weeks of vacation (including educational leave)
Target Start Date: Summer/Fall 2025
Practice Management: NextGen
Current patient volume: 2024 Jan-Oct ave office visits/dr = 4,400
2023 ave office visit/dr = 5,200
That is about 1,700-2,000 unique patients a year
Annual Vit Procedure: we currently send these patients to the retina consultants. If a new doctor wanted to do injections, we would keep it in house.
Estimated Surg Volume for this role: 400 cat surgery/year
Support Staff: scribe and work up technicians
Hospital Call: 3-4 weeks per year
MDs on Staff: 1 part time
ODs on Staff: 2 FTE
Partners: 4
OD Network: Our internal ODs. We do get some cataract referrals form local ODs, but the majority of our surgical volume is our own patients.
OD – patient per day expectation: 30 with a combination of annual exams and follow ups
Refractive Surgery - Lasik: yes, PRK and LASIK
Hospital Affiliation: Enloe Community Hospital
ASC: Advanced Eye Surgery Center – ownership opportunity in this as well.