Primary Care Sports Medicine Physician (Spine Focused)

Northwell Orthopedics is seeking a Primary Care Sports Medicine Physician with a specialized interest in Spine care to join their newly established spine center in Manhattan, NY. This role offers a unique opportunity to be part of a growing interdisciplinary practice, delivering comprehensive, non-operative musculoskeletal and spine care. The physician will serve as a front-line spine specialist, focusing on conservative treatment, appropriate imaging, care coordination, and timely referrals.

Practice Info

• Join a newly established spine center in Manhattan, NY
• Part of a growing interdisciplinary practice
• Focus on comprehensive, non-operative musculoskeletal and spine care
• Collaborate with a dedicated team of anesthesiologists, nurses, radiologists, and rehabilitation specialists

Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive, non-operative evaluation and management of patients with cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spine conditions
• Serve as a front-line spine specialist, emphasizing conservative treatment, appropriate imaging utilization, care coordination, and timely referral to spine surgery or pain management when indicated
• Support access optimization, value-based care initiatives, and high-quality patient outcomes
• Perform comprehensive musculoskeletal and neurologic examinations
• Identify and appropriately triage spine red flags (e.g., cauda equina, myelopathy, infection, malignancy)
• Develop and manage individualized, evidence-based, non-operative treatment plans
• Evaluate and manage patients with spine-related conditions, including acute and chronic neck and low back pain, cervical and lumbar radiculopathy, degenerative disc disease and spondylosis, spinal stenosis (non-operative), and sports-related and work-related spine injuries

Compensation

• Salary: Commensurate with Experience
• Full-time clinical base compensation at Northwell Health ranges from $125,000 to $750,000, which is impacted by various factors, including but not limited to physician specialty, level of experience, quality of care, academic accomplishments, patient experience and productivity

Shift & Schedule

• Full Time

Requirements

• MD or DO from an accredited medical school
• Completion of an ACGME-accredited Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship
• Board Certified/Board Eligible in a Primary Care field
• Must be licensed or eligible to be licensed as a physician in the State of New York