Locum tenens staffing for Anesthesiology, Emergency Medicine, and Hospitalist physicians. Built for community and critical access hospitals nationwide.
Coverage is too important to leave to a database. Three things make Lumen different from the agencies your hospital has worked with before.
We staff three specialties only: Anesthesiology, Emergency Medicine, and Hospitalist Medicine. That focus means we know the physicians personally, understand the work, and speak to credentialing nuances most agencies miss entirely.
We work with hospitals between 100 and 400 beds, plus critical access facilities under 25 beds. The math, the relationships, and the credentialing timelines are different at this scale. We built the firm around that.
Published rate ranges by state and specialty. No daily, weekly, or administrative fees. A real person answers the phone. Every match is reviewed by a clinical lead before introduction.
Premium rates published before you apply. Real human recruiters who pick up the phone. Assignments matched to your schedule, your specialty, your geography. Credentialing handled by our ops team so you can focus on patients.
We don't staff outside our three specialties. The depth is the point.
OR coverage, OB anesthesia, regional and pain blocks. CAH and community hospital settings, including CRNA-supervised models.
Single-coverage rural ED, double-coverage community ED, observation units. ABEM and ABOEM physicians, ATLS and PALS current.
Day, swing, and nocturnist shifts. Open and closed ICU models. Internal Medicine board certified, hospitalist-track preferred.
Real assignments, real rates, real facilities. Filter by specialty, state, or shift type to find your fit.
Active physician placements and licensed coverage shown below. Hot states are where we currently have physicians on assignment.
We track every state license in-house, with median processing timelines published for each. No more guessing how long credentialing will take.
Our highest volume states reflect where critical access and community hospitals concentrate: the Midwest, Mountain West, and rural South.
The same standards apply on both sides. Specialty depth, facility focus, and real human service.
For CMOs, VPMAs, Chiefs of Staff, and Medical Staff Services teams running coverage in 25 to 400 bed hospitals.
For board certified physicians in Anesthesiology, EM, or Hospitalist Medicine ready for flexible locum work.
The process below applies in both directions: a hospital requesting coverage, or a physician joining the network. Same standard.
Hospitals share coverage needs, dates, scope, and facility type. Physicians share specialty, active state licenses, and availability windows.
Our clinical lead matches on specialty, state license, facility type, and timing. Every match is reviewed before introduction.
Decision maker and physician connect 1:1. Rate, schedule, and scope locked in writing before any credentialing kicks off.
Credentialing closes. Physician starts the shift. We stay on call 24/7 for both sides until the assignment ends.
$2M per occurrence, $4M aggregate, occurrence-based. Tail coverage included on every assignment.
Joint Commission and NCQA-aligned. NPDB query, OIG check, and primary source verification on every physician.
46 states tracked in-house. Median state license processing time published per state.
Member of the National Association of Locum Tenens Organizations. Operate under the NALTO Code of Ethics.
The right physician in the right hospital at the right time. That's the metric, and it's the one Lumen was built around.
Drake leads hospital relationships and contracting. He spent years in B2B sales and operations across high-stakes industries before Lumen. He's the one CMOs and VPMAs talk to directly.
Keegan owns the physician side of the network. He recruits, vets, and personally supports every physician we work with. He's the one you call if your shift schedule needs to change.
Lumen filled a two week ED coverage gap in 72 hours. The physician was board certified, fully credentialed, and a real fit for our staff. That doesn't happen with the big agencies.
Clear rates upfront, no follow up calls from five recruiters, and the assignments are exactly what they say they are. Rare in this industry.
Critical access staffing is its own beast. Lumen gets it. They sent us anesthesiologists who understand a 25 bed facility, not someone expecting a level one trauma center.
Three placements in six months, zero recruiter spam in between. Keegan knows my schedule, my license states, and my preferred facility size. That's the relationship I've been looking for since I started locums.
As a VPMA, I get pitched by five locum agencies a week. Lumen is the only one that bothered to learn what makes our 110 bed facility different from a 400 bed system. They send the right people.
Credentialing was the cleanest I've ever experienced. Documents requested once, deadlines met, no back-and-forth. I was on shift in 18 days from intro to scrub.
Our median time from request to credentialed match is 72 hours. State licensure timelines vary, and we publish them for all 46 states so you know exactly what to expect before signing anything.
Every physician carries $2M per occurrence, $4M aggregate occurrence-based malpractice coverage. Coverage extends through the assignment and tail coverage is included.
Every physician is board certified with at least 3 years post residency. We verify NPI, DEA, state licenses, board certification, malpractice history, NPDB query, and references before adding anyone to the network.
Yes. Lumen Locums is a member of the National Association of Locum Tenens Organizations and operates under the NALTO Code of Ethics for every engagement.
Nothing. No application, daily, weekly, or administrative fees. We're paid by the hospital. Physicians keep their full negotiated rate.
Three things. Specialty depth: we only staff Anesthesiology, EM, and Hospitalist Medicine. Facility focus: we only work with community and critical access hospitals. Human service: real people, transparent rates, no phone trees, no automated emails.
Notes on locum staffing, credentialing, and what underserved hospitals are actually navigating right now.
A 22 bed critical access hospital in rural Nebraska does not have the same coverage needs as a 350 bed urban community hospital. Here's how the math is different.
Average time from request to credentialed candidate. Percentage of physicians who return for a second assignment. References at hospitals your size in the last 90 days.
If your agency won't tell you the rate range before you apply, that's a flag. Here's the math behind locum rates and what physicians should know before signing.
Whether you need to fill a coverage gap or you're a physician ready for your next assignment, we'd like to hear from you.