DESCRIPTION

SUMMARY

MedNOW Clinics is seeking a compassionate and dependable Nurse Practitioner to provide high-quality outpatient care.

This role is ideal for an NP who values clinical autonomy, collaboration, patient access, accurate documentation, and continuity of care. You will work with physicians, other APPs, Medical Assistants, Front Desk staff, Clinic Managers, and support teams to ensure patients receive coordinated care and clear follow-up.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Evaluate and manage patients during initial, follow-up, preventive, and problem-focused visits.
• Obtain appropriate histories, perform examinations, develop differential diagnoses, and create evidence-based treatment plans.
• Recognize urgent or unstable conditions and arrange the appropriate level of care.
• Order, review, interpret, and follow up on laboratory work, imaging, and other diagnostic studies.
• Prescribe medications within your license, population focus, prescriptive authority, approved privileges, and applicable safety requirements.
• Use appropriate controlled-substance safeguards and the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program when required.
• Provide clear patient education, shared decision-making, return precautions, and follow-up instructions.
• Respect patient autonomy and document informed refusal when appropriate.
• Complete accurate, timely, and compliant documentation, diagnoses, orders, and coding.
• Maintain current medication, allergy, and problem lists.
• Review assigned messages, refill requests, results, referrals, and clinical work queues.
• Communicate results promptly and ensure urgent findings receive immediate follow-up.
• Track referrals and follow-up needs until responsibility and completion are confirmed.
• Help patients access care by using clinical review, appropriate scheduling options, and team escalation.
• Identify and address preventive-care needs, chronic-care gaps, and quality measures.
• Support value-based care initiatives and attributed-patient follow-up.
• Collaborate with physicians, APPs, Medical Assistants, Front Desk staff, specialists, and clinic leadership.
• Delegate only within each team member's training and role.
• Seek consultation or escalate care when a case is outside your experience, population focus, approved services, privileges, or available clinic resources.
• Participate in quality improvement, peer review, team meetings, training, and continuing professional development.
• Maintain all required licenses, registrations, certifications, credentialing, payer enrollment, and professional records.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Master's or doctoral degree from an accredited Nurse Practitioner program.
• Current national board certification appropriate to the assigned population focus.
• Current, unrestricted Colorado registered nurse license and Advanced Practice Nurse registration as a Nurse Practitioner, or documented eligibility to obtain them before starting.
• Colorado prescriptive authority appropriate to the position, or documented eligibility and an approved pathway to obtain the required authority before independently prescribing.
• Current NPI and ability to complete MedNOW and payer credentialing requirements.
• Active DEA registration when required for the position's prescribing responsibilities.
• Current BLS/CPR certification.
• Strong outpatient assessment, diagnostic, treatment-planning, and follow-up skills.
• Ability to recognize clinical limits and obtain consultation or a higher level of care when needed.
• Understanding of documentation, coding, medical necessity, patient privacy, and professional standards.
• Ability to work onsite for the posted schedule and consistently meet documentation and patient-care responsibilities.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Family Nurse Practitioner certification.
• At least one year of outpatient primary-care or family-medicine experience.
• Experience with Athenahealth or another electronic health record.
• Experience with value-based care, quality measures, care-gap closure, and population-health initiatives.
• Experience managing a patient panel, clinical inbox, refill requests, referrals, and results.
• Experience with accurate outpatient coding and documentation.
• New graduates may be considered for selected openings with an appropriate training, prescriptive-authority, and clinical-support structure.

COMPENSATION

The anticipated full-time base salary range is $110,000 to $140,000 annually. Part-time compensation will be prorated according to the approved schedule and FTE.

In addition to base salary, providers may have the opportunity to earn additional productivity-based compensation. This incentive considers work RVU performance and accurate, timely, and compliant documentation and coding practices.

Eligibility, performance measurements, and payment terms are governed by MedNOW's current provider compensation plan and will be reviewed during the hiring process.

The final base salary will be determined by experience, population focus, credentials, schedule, responsibilities, and internal equity.

REQUIREMENTS

MedNOW Clinics is a growing, Colorado accessible, high-quality, and coordinated care to the communities we serve. Through our network of outpatient clinics, we offer comprehensive primary and specialty care services, including family and internal medicine, urgent care, behavioral health, addiction treatment, gynecology, pain management, physical therapy, medical weight management, hormone therapy, diagnostic imaging, and other wellness services. Our approach is centered on treating the whole person and creating an individualized, supportive experience for every patient. We believe excellent patient care starts with a strong team. Our culture is built on compassion, collaboration, accountability, inclusion, and continuous growth. MedNOW provides employees with the resources, training, professional development, and leadership support they need to succeed while making a meaningful difference in the lives of patients throughout Colorado.