A physician-led gastroenterology group in Baton Rouge, Louisiana is recruiting a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant to join an established, high-volume GI practice embedded within one of the largest specialty GI networks in the country. The role spans both hospital and clinic settings, offering a clinician meaningful variety in daily patient encounters while operating under direct physician supervision with the full administrative and operational support of a nationally scaled platform. For an APP with GI experience — or strong interest in building it — this is a well-resourced, autonomy-preserving position in a growing specialty market.
Perks and Benefits
- Paid call compensation in addition to base employment
- Continuing education support to maintain active credentialing across assigned facilities
- Access to GI Alliance's national infrastructure: analytics, revenue cycle management, and operational support
- Management Services Organization (The Specialty Alliance) handles all business operations, allowing full clinical focus
- Flexible scheduling aligned with practice needs
Practice Highlights
- Dual-setting role covering both outpatient clinic and inpatient hospital environments
- Scope includes comprehensive patient histories and physicals, tentative diagnosis formulation, laboratory test ordering and interpretation, and patient and family counseling on GI health and disease management
- Call coverage required as part of practice operations, with dedicated paid call compensation
- Direct physician supervision model preserving clinical autonomy while providing attending-level backup
- Part of GI Alliance, a physician-led national gastroenterology network with centralized clinical and administrative infrastructure
- Credentialing maintained across multiple assigned medical facilities, with institutional support for the process
- Practice model designed to insulate clinicians from administrative burden — billing, revenue cycle, and analytics are fully managed externally
Qualifications
- Current Louisiana state licensure as a Nurse Practitioner (NP) or Physician Assistant (PA), or eligibility to obtain
- Gastrointestinal or GI-adjacent clinical experience preferred; candidates with strong internal medicine or procedural backgrounds are encouraged to apply
- Ability to maintain active credentials across multiple assigned hospital and clinic facilities
- Flexibility to work a schedule aligned with practice and call coverage needs
About the Community
Baton Rouge is Louisiana's state capital and home to a diverse, growing metropolitan area of nearly 900,000 residents, offering a low cost of living relative to comparable Southern cities, a vibrant food and cultural scene rooted in Cajun and Creole traditions, and strong public and private school options. The city sits along the Mississippi River roughly 80 miles west of New Orleans, giving residents easy access to world-class dining, music, and entertainment while maintaining a more relaxed, community-oriented pace of daily life. Outdoor recreation — including fishing, boating, and access to Gulf Coast beaches — is abundant throughout the region.