Physician - Gastroenterology Inpatient Hospitalist - minimal afterhours, ERCP required
Reported by 41 physicians · region cohort · total comp, not the employer's posted pay
Overview
- Location
- Great Falls, Montana
- Schedule
- Typically in house 7 am to 3 pm weekdays, rounds Saturday, procedures Sunday 7 am to 12 pm, flexible scheduling with 7-14 shifts per stretch based on preference · Takes 24 hour call but rarely comes in late night OR overnight for emergencies
- SalaryDr Signal range
- $530k – $580k
- Practice
- Hospital employed · Tertiary hospital
41 physician reports · not the employer's posted pay
Role summary
The role is a hospital-employed full-time inpatient gastroenterology hospitalist with ERCP required, covering approximately 146 shifts annually. The compensation is shift-based with performance bonuses, sign-on and relocation bonuses, generous CME and retirement benefits, and 24-hour call coverage that rarely requires late-night or overnight work.
What the posting highlights
- GI hospitalists cover GI hospitalist call among themselves
- Care setting: Primarily inpatient hospitalist with optional outpatient lab time during off stretch
- Patient population: 80,000 Great Falls residents plus 275,000 north central Montana residents
- APP collaboration or supervision is noted
SalaryDr summary based on the original posting
Posted base pay vs physician-reported total comp
Physician-reported range shown; the employer did not post pay for this role.
Compensation
- What physicians report
- $530k – $580k
- Pay context
- SalaryDr Signal · physician-reported
- Report sample
- 41 recent physician reports · region cohort
- Compensation basis
- Estimated total compensation
- Bonus / incentives
- Performance bonuses with additional compensation options and a generous sign-on/relocation bonus · Not specified
Benefits named in the posting
- 219 days off per year full time
- Annual $6,000 CME/license/dues
- 5-7% retirement match plus 457b program
- Paid malpractice plus tail
- Physician wellness programs
- Monthly leadership meetings
- Sign-on and relocation bonus options
This is a SalaryDr Signal computed from 41 recent, approved physician reports (region cohort). It is not an employer offer or posted pay; this employer did not disclose pay.
Employer
Benefis Health System
Claim this free profile to see who's viewing your roles and manage your listings.
Facility & Community
- Practice setting
- Hospital employed
- Facility type
- Tertiary hospital
- Trauma level
- Level II trauma center
- Patient population
- 80,000 Great Falls residents plus 275,000 north central Montana residents
- EHR
- Not stated in posting
SalaryDr will show local peer compensation and hiring supply here once this role has enough physician-reported data.
Questions to ask the employer
- How is the productivity component calculated (wRVU rate, threshold, reconciliation cadence), and what did physicians here actually earn from it last year?
- How many weeks of PTO and CME time are included, and is unused time paid out?
Generated from this posting's disclosed facts and the SalaryDr comparison — bring them to the first recruiter call.
Work Design
- Schedule
- Typically in house 7 am to 3 pm weekdays, rounds Saturday, procedures Sunday 7 am to 12 pm, flexible scheduling with 7-14 shifts per stretch based on preference
- Call burden
- takes 24 hour call but rarely comes in late night or overnight for emergencies
- Shift type
- Hospitalist shift-based
- Patient volume
- Average 6 cases per day (range 2-9)
- Inpatient / outpatient
- Primarily inpatient hospitalist with optional outpatient lab time during off stretch
- Coverage model
- GI hospitalists cover GI hospitalist call among themselves
- FTE
- 1
- Supervises APPs
- Yes
Visa & Eligibility
- Remote
- No
- Visa sponsorship
- yes
- J-1 waiver
- Yes
Source & Verification
- Source
- Aggregated (ym_careers)
- Salary label
- SalaryDr Signal
- First seen
- 2 wk ago
- Last verified
- today
- Extraction confidence
- 95%
Full description
Benefis Health System is looking to add an inpatient gastroenterologist to an established GI hospitalist practice in Great Falls, Montana in a full-time or part-time role. The practice serves 80,000 Great Falls residents as well as 275,000 residents across north central Montana. Currently, we employ 7 gastroenterologists (FTE and per diem), 1 inpatient PA-C, and 3 outpatient advanced practice providers. Applicants must be board eligible/certified. ERCP is required. Endoscopy Brand new beautiful 22,000 SF Endoscopy space in the hospital with Olympus equipment. 8 huge endoscopy suites and 24 pre op/post op bays designed as an ambulatory surgical center. All patients are managed within the unit with occasional procedures in the OR (based on BMI) Experienced and helpful staff of RNs and techs, dedicated anesthesia services, and dedicated GI Hospitalist suite Procedures include but are not limited to: ERCP, Barryx, Spyglass, colonoscopies, EGDs, flexible sigmoidoscopies, PEG tube placements, and EUS Position Information Average of 6 cases per day (range of about 2-9) and an average of 6-7 ERCP cases per stretch Experienced PA-C to help with consults and rounding Dedicated M-F block to complete urgent/emergent procedures with assigned anesthesia and dedicated Sunday block from 7:00 am – 12:00 pm, working with endoscopy staff to complete weekend cases Hospital employed, full time = 146 shifts annually or part time = 73 shifts annually (7-14 shifts each stretch based on preference) flexible scheduling to accommodate lifestyle desire Gastroenterology call is covered by GI Hospitalists, allowing our traditional practicing physicians the ability to have high volume general practices. The GI hospitalist is typically in house from approximately 7 am – 3 pm on weekdays, does rounds on Saturday and procedures on Sunday in a dedicated block from 7:00 am – 12:00 pm with endoscopy staff and anesthesia to reduce the use of main OR over the weekend. While this position does take 24 hour call, they are not typically called after hours and rarely come in late night or overnight for emergencies Additional opportunity for outpatient lab time during off stretch is available but not required How we support you Nationally competitive shift based compensation and performance bonuses with additional compensation options based on desires with generous sign-on / relocation bonus 219 days off per year for full time FTE Annual $6,000 CME/license/dues 5-7% retirement match + 457b program Paid malpractice + tail Physician wellness programs focused on personal and professional development Monthly meetings with highest-level physician and administrative leadership to bring ideas forward and solve issues J-1 waiver sponsorships for specific specialties with established immigration council Community Information Great Falls is known as Montana’s base camp for art and adventure with a city population of 70,000, and a draw of over 275,000 people in north central Montana. We have four genuine seasons, experience mild winters and enjoy blue skies over 300 days per year. Great Falls is a wonderful and safe place to raise a family, with nationally ranked public schools, endless activities, two accredited colleges, a brand-new nursing school, a biomedical rural health research institute, and a new not-for-profit medical school, TouroCOM Montana. Additionally, the Missouri River, a blue-ribbon fly-fishing destination, runs through the middle of our community with over 60 miles of paved recreational trails. Our local outdoor activities include camping, backpacking, hiking, biking, horseback riding, water and snow skiing, rock and ice climbing, boating, paddle boarding, kayaking, off-road motor sports, and hunting making our quality of life unrivaled in the Rocky Mountain West. Additionally, in 2023, Montana was named #1 state in the nation to practice medicine by WalletHub and in 2020, Great Falls ranked #10 for best cities to practice in after the pandemic by Business Insider. Benefis Health System is one of Montana’s largest tertiary centers holding a level II trauma designation. We are proud to be a standalone, financially stable community health system with strong, dedicated leadership focused on providing the best patient care in Montana, in addition to being awarded Becker’s “Best Places To Work in Healthcare” for 7 years. Benefis covers ¼ of the state’s land mass, an area comparable in size to Kansas and can provide advanced care for everything except for burns and organ transplants. We offer great specialty support including neurosurgery, cardiothoracic and vascular, advanced gastroenterology, a regional cancer institute, and a state-of-the-art emergency trauma department with a dedicated air ambulance program, including fixed and rotor wing. Visit our website: https://www.benefis.org for more information Submit your CV today to learn more: EricaMartin@benefis.org or ProviderCareers@benefis.org