Summus MDs Tim Allard January 14, 2025
Summus MDs are the clinical front door to our members
Summus MDs are the fulcrum of our model. Think of it like providing every person in our community with a close friend or family member that is a physician, ready and willing to provide medical insights and support whenever needed. Board-certified in internal medicine, pediatrics, family medicine, and emergency medicine, they navigate our members across all health questions.

As a Summus MD you will:

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Develop relationships with our member experience team to guide case triage
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Have dedicated time to answer questions and alleviate concerns from members across all health disciplines
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Escalate cases to our expert panel for virtual consultation
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Leverage our team to provide vetted personalized in-person referrals
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Get paid directly by Summus in a manner that values your time and expertise

See how Summus restores the human connection in healthcare

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Frequently Asked Questions:
Summus MDs

Summus has redefined specialty care by enabling technology to scale physician expertise, allowing people rapid access to leading doctors in a way that values the expert’s time, knowledge, and skill…all while rebuilding the human connection in healthcare. We appreciate the current administrative burden and requirements of various practice settings for physicians, and have designed our platform for ease of use and to prioritize communication in a virtual environment. Summus allows physicians to practice at the top of their license by sharing knowledge acquired through years of training and patient encounters, while being appropriately reimbursed for their efforts.

Successful physicians at Summus are those who are responsive, compassionate, confident in their clinical acumen and appreciate the value of educating and empowering others to make medical decisions that best fit individual circumstances.

Consultations are simple and efficient. Here’s how they work:
      1. The Summus team will contact you with a blinded, short description of a member’s health concern or question.
      2. You may accept the case by choosing one of the available time slots listed for the member’s consultation.
      3. Upon accepting the case, the Summus MD will have access to the case page prior to the consultation to review case details.
      4. At the scheduled time, the Summus MD and member will connect via our outbound calling system or via Summus’ secure digital platform for video.
      5. The Summus MD has three options for triaging the case upon completion: resolving it with clinical guidance, referring to our member experience team for a personalized provider referral for in-person care, or escalation to virtual expert consultation with a member of the Summus specialty network.
      6. Payment is made to the provider on a weekly basis.
  • Summus welcomes our members to ask about any health question or concern. In general, the topics of the consultations span all areas of medicine, including preventative care, ongoing health management inquiries, understanding new diagnoses and care plans, to considerations on surgery and novel therapeutics. The goal of the consultation is to better delineate the member’s health concerns in order to provide them guidance on the best next step in their health journey. We match physicians to cases that coincide with their areas of interest.

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