If you’ve felt the pressures of traditional practice, chasing volume instead of shaping outcomes, Wider Circle may be for you.
Patients leave the hospital, and the system fractures: families scramble, meds get muddled, follow-up falls through, and another admission happens. The system wasn’t built for these moments. We started Wider Care+ because it simply wasn’t enough.
Wider Circle delivers community-rooted, relationship-driven care for older adults and clinically complex populations by aligning clinical insight with trusted, community-based support. Wider Care+ is our new pilot that pairs physicians, Community Health Workers, Licensed Clinical Social Workers, and care navigators to create a coordinated, humane path forward. You are the clinical entry point—the comprehensive assessment that sets the foundation for real, ongoing intervention.
The Role As a Telehealth Physician for Wider Care+, you’ll conduct Shared Medical Appointment (SMA) that serve as the clinical gateway for members newly enrolled in the pilot. Each visit confirms clinical needs, synthesizes the medical and social context, identifies barriers to care, and establishes prioritized clinical goals for the care team to implement over the course of months of support.
What is a Shared Medical Appointment (SMA)
A Shared Medical Appointment (SMA) is a group-based medical care model that allows multiple patients with similar conditions to receive education, support, and medical guidance in a structured setting. Patients benefit from additional time with healthcare professionals, peer support, and ongoing engagement in their care. The SMA model combines individual medical decision-making with group education and discussion.
What is the physician’s role in the SMA program
The physician has two primary responsibilities:
- Initial Intake Appointment (Individual Visit): Prior to enrollment in an SMA group, each patient completes an individual intake appointment with the physician to review medical history, assess symptoms, determine clinical appropriateness, establish a care plan, and document eligibility.
- Round-Robin Group Check-Ins: During recurring SMA sessions, the physician conducts brief medical check-ins, reviews progress, addresses questions, reinforces care plans, and provides medical oversight while creating an E&M charting note per patient.
Other Key Responsibilities
- Conduct comprehensive telehealth initial visits for enrolled members (15-20 min)
- Synthesize complex medical and social histories and identify clinical priorities and risks
- Create concise, actionable clinical plans and handoffs for Community Health Workers, LCSWs, and care navigators
- Document findings and recommendations clearly in the EMR to guide ongoing care
- Provide clinical guidance on escalation pathways and program workflows during the pilot
- Build rapid clinical rapport and trust with members and caregivers
Why Wider Care+ feels different
- Clinical autonomy: You own assessments and clinical judgment—no productivity quotas, no templated box-checking.
- Focused clinical impact: You set direction; a skilled, community-centered team executes longitudinal engagement and social support.
- Remote, flexible work: Telehealth visits you can schedule to fit your week—no clinic overhead, no commute.
- Early-stage influence: Join a pilot shaping how we deliver whole-person care at scale.
- Team-based care: You’re never alone—care managers and community teammates carry longitudinal work.
Requirements
- MD or DO with active, unrestricted Arizona license. Multiple state licenses strongly preferred.
- Board-certified or board-eligible in Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Geriatrics, or related primary care specialty preferred
- Substantial experience with Medicare/Medicaid populations, or complex chronic disease management
- Skilled at telehealth assessment and building rapport virtually
- Strong clinical judgment, comfort with complexity and ambiguity, and interest in care coordination
- Comfortable working in an iterative, startup-like pilot environment
Benefits
Compensation & Logistics
- 1099 independent contractor
- Competitive hourly/visit-based compensation (commensurate with experience)
- Part-time, flexible scheduling (recommended 6–10+ hours/week depending on caseload)
- Fully virtual visits and EMR documentation
- Pilot role with opportunity to expand as Wider Care+ scales
Why This Role Is Different
This is not a traditional panel-based practice.
You focus on understanding the patient and setting direction — while a dedicated support team helps carry out the ongoing engagement.
If you’re interested in improving care for vulnerable populations while working in a flexible, innovative care model, we’d love to connect.