Legion Health

Autonomous medical care

Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) — Part-Time, Full-Time, Hybrid (Texas)

$120K - $230KTX, US / Remote (TX, US)
Job type
Full-time
Role
Operations
Experience
Any (new grads ok)
Visa
Will sponsor
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Yash Patel
Yash Patel
Co-Founder/CEO

About the role

Job Overview

[We show compassion to heal minds.]

About Legion Health:

Legion is a pioneering, tech-enabled psychiatry network focused on delivering world-class outpatient care. Our providers—the most talented PMHNPs in the country—are passionate about expanding mental health care access for those with insurance.

Our innovative model combines the stability of a traditional hospital position with the flexibility of a private practice. We prioritize our clinicians' well-being and professional growth, offering a competitive compensation package and fostering a vibrant, collaborative culture.

Quality and patient experience are paramount to us. This means recruiting exceptional providers, championing evidence-based protocols, and displaying compassion in every patient interaction. Our exceptional PMHNPs operate with clinical autonomy, supported by experienced psychiatrists.

Our vision is to pioneer a new era of mental health by delivering world-class psychiatry. We believe in a future where every patient can access the compassionate psychiatric care they need, regardless of the insurance they have.

About the role:

We are looking for a clinically excellent and patient-centered psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner. Ideal candidates will embrace our vision of expanding access to world-class psychiatric care by embracing technology and serving patients across all insurance types.

Benefits:

  • Flexibility: Set your own schedule for optimal work-life balance.
  • Work from Home: See patients from the comfort of your home via telehealth.
  • Significant Administrative Support: Focus on patient care, not on patient scheduling, insurance verification, billing, prior authorizations, pharmacy coordination, etc.
  • Clinical Autonomy: We hire the most skilled providers and trust them to do what’s best for patients.
  • Patient Acquisition: Unlike with a private practice, we’ll work to fill your schedule, so you don’t have to do your own marketing.
  • Physician Supervision: We provide your collaborating psychiatrist and fully cover the costs.
  • Competitive Pay: We compensate our providers at market-leading rates, reflecting your experience and performance.
  • Weekly Pay: We pay our providers every week for immediate financial benefit and planning ease.
  • Legal Protection: We provide full malpractice insurance coverage.
  • Technical Support: We cover the costs for you to have best-in-class EHR and e-Prescribe tools.
  • Credentialing Support: We handle all aspects and costs of credentialing with a large number of insurance plans, including commercial, ACA, and government, ensuring your legal and effective authorization within insurance networks.
  • Commitment to Quality Care: Psychiatric intakes are 1 hour, and follow-ups are 30 minutes (as they should be).
  • Tools for Responsible Prescribing: We have rigorous, evidence-based protocols and provide objective diagnostic tools to ensure responsible and ethical prescriptions of controlled substances.
  • Community of Clinical Excellence: You will work alongside the most talented PMHNPs and psychiatrists in the world. Our current PMHNPs have trained at prestigious institutions, including Vanderbilt, UT Austin, Johns Hopkins, Columbia, NYU, and UTHealth Houston.
  • Opportunities for Professional Growth: As we expand, we intend to promote clinical leadership from the best of our active providers.
  • Culture of Excellence through Innovation: Actively participate in ushering in a new era of mental health care through superior clinical care and technology.
  • Licensure Coverage: We’ll reimburse you for all fees associated with getting licensed in other states as required by Legion.
  • Resources: We provide premium subscriptions to resources such as UpToDate and Carlat.
  • Exclusive Events: Engage with your colleagues through exclusive in-person and virtual events.

Responsibilities

  • Excellent Patient Care: Evaluate and treat patients with conditions like depression, anxiety, ADHD, insomnia, PTSD, and bipolar disorder. Perform comprehensive psychiatric assessments, including mental health, medical history, and risk analysis. Use novel evidence-based treatments.
  • Compassionate Care Culture: Promote an environment of compassion, respect, and empathy in patient interactions and care approaches.
  • Holistic Treatment: Create and execute tailored treatment plans, combining medication and brief psychotherapy, in teamwork with other mental health and medical professionals.
  • Innovation in Treatment: Explore and integrate new therapeutic techniques and technologies to enhance patient outcomes and care efficiency.
  • Professional Growth: Participate in case reviews with peers and physicians to enhance clinical skills and foster ongoing learning.

Qualifications

  • Active, unrestricted license as a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) in Texas.
  • Active, unrestricted DEA license in Texas.
  • Board certification as a PMHNP (ANCC).
  • Residency in Texas.
  • At least 1 year of professional experience practicing as a PMHNP.
  • Commitment to a minimum 1-year tenure with our team.
  • Comfort providing care remotely via telehealth.
  • Strong clinical assessment, diagnostic, and medication management skills.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Comfort using technology and electronic health record systems.
  • Commitment to providing patient-centered, compassionate care.

Additional Information

Location:

This role is predominantly remote, with the potential for future in-person consultations.

Job type:

Part-time and full-time positions are available.

Members of our clinical and business advisory board include:

  • Madhukar Trivedi, M.D. [Psychiatrist; Professor of Psychiatry and Distinguished Chair in Mental Health at UT Southwestern]
  • Alexander Ruvalcaba, M.D. [Psychiatrist; Physician Executive at MultiCare Behavioral Health Network]
  • Jon Kole, M.D. [Psychiatrist; Medical Director at Headspace]
  • Liberty Eberly, D.O. [Psychiatrist; Co-Founder and Former Chief Medical Officer at innovaTel Telepsychiatry]
  • John Lusins, MD [Psychiatrist; Founder and President at South Texas Mental Health Associates]
  • Samir Malik [ex-Founder at Genoa Telepsychiatry, Founder at firsthand]
  • Andrew Thompson [National COO at Pediatric Associates]

About Legion Health

Legion Health is building autonomous medical care, starting with psychiatry. Our AI-native care-delivery platform currently automates 95% of the administrative work required for us to deliver direct patient care. We also recently became the first company ever to receive regulatory authorization to let AI prescribe psychiatric medications, allowing us to not only collapse health care’s admin costs but also its clinical labor costs—entirely shifting this industry’s economics from humans to tokens.

Our technical moat is hard to copy—we combine rich data, production AI, psychiatrists in the loop, and end-to-end care operations to deliver measurably better care to a clinically complex patient population. This has helped us produce 20K+ total visits and $4.2M in ARR in just 2 years (~4× YoY), all while holding ops costs flat and achieving industry-leading patient NPS and retention.

While the last generation of healthcare startups made the existing system slightly more efficient—for example, by moving providers from out-of-network to accepting insurance—Legion is fundamentally rebuilding full-stack care delivery from first principles. With a global TAM of $2.15T and our recent regulatory approval for autonomous prescribing, we plan to 10× in the next year with a national rollout.

The company was founded by three best friends from Princeton University: Yash was the youngest health economist at the Congressional Budget Office with Medicare and Medicaid expertise, Daniel has an extensive background in deep learning and AI from Microsoft, and Arthur is a self-taught engineer and former McKinsey consultant. Legion Health is backed by Y Combinator, Alumni Ventures, and Soma Capital, plus founders from Function Health, Modern Health, Everly Health, Trusted Health, Clipboard Health, PatientPing, Sesame Care, Faire, EasyPost, and fuboTV.

Legion Health
Founded:2021
Batch:S21
Team Size:11
Status:
Active
Location:San Francisco
Founders
Arthur MacWaters
Arthur MacWaters
Founder
Yash Patel
Yash Patel
Co-Founder/CEO
Daniel Wilson
Daniel Wilson
Co-Founder, CTO