There are 5 physician-owned rheumatology practices in South Dakota, vetted against the NPPES NPI Registry. Hospital-employed, government, and academic positions are excluded.
Most PGY-Final-Year physicians sign their first rheumatology contract in South Dakota without knowing what else is out there. This directory shows the 5 groups they were never told about.
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A physician who can see that there are 40 physician-owned rheumatology groups within 50 miles walks into a contract negotiation with completely different leverage than one who assumes the hospital is the only option. Non-compete radius, buy-in terms, tail coverage, all of it becomes more negotiable once you actually know what is around you. The Real Contract course walks you through every clause that matters.
Hospital-employed, government-operated, and academic positions are excluded. These are not independent private practices:
Hospital systems
Rapid City, SD
Practicing rheumatology in Rapid City, South Dakota, Cynthia Weaver offers care through an owner-operated medical office. The practice also provides autoimmune and joint disease care. Visit the practice website or call to discuss potential openings.
640 Flormann St, Rapid City, SD 57701
Rapid City, SD
Esperanza Argenziano, M.D. operates a physician-owned rheumatology practice in Rapid City, South Dakota, offering personalized patient care in a private setting. Beyond rheumatology, the office offers autoimmune and joint disease care. Employment and partnership inquiries can be directed to the practice via their website.
640 Flormann St, Rapid City, SD 57701
Rapid City, SD
Jennifer May, MD brings rheumatology expertise to patients in Rapid City, South Dakota through a physician-owned practice. Beyond rheumatology, the office offers autoimmune and joint disease care. Employment and partnership inquiries can be directed to the practice via their website.
3024 Tower Rd, Rapid City, SD 57701
Rapid City, SD
Monument Health Rheumatology operates a rheumatology medical office in Rapid City, South Dakota, outside of hospital employment. Beyond rheumatology, the office offers autoimmune and joint disease care. Employment and partnership inquiries can be directed to the practice via their website.
640 Flormann St, Rapid City, SD 57701
Sioux Falls, SD
Christine Halligan, MD brings rheumatology expertise to patients in Sioux Falls, South Dakota through a physician-owned practice. Additional capabilities include autoimmune and joint disease care. Call the practice directly to ask about current physician openings or partnership opportunities.
6100 S Louise Ave Suite 1130, Sioux Falls, SD 57108
Then graduation approaches and the algorithm stops. A recruiter calls. The contract has a productivity formula you cannot solve for, a non-compete you cannot evaluate, and a tail-coverage clause nobody explained.
Before you compare salary numbers, see how many physician-owned groups actually exist in your specialty and state. Then negotiate from leverage instead of from gratitude.
There are 5 physician-owned rheumatology practices in South Dakota, spread across 2 cities. I pulled every one of them from the NPPES NPI Registry, which is the federal database that CMS maintains for active providers. Then I filtered out anything that isn't independently operated. Hospital-employed positions, academic faculty roles, locum agencies, government clinics, they're all excluded. What's left is a clean list of practices where physicians hold actual ownership and make their own clinical decisions.
If you're evaluating a move to private practice in South Dakota, this is a starting point you won't find on a job board. Most boards mix employed positions with ownership opportunities, and they almost never tell you who actually owns the practice. Recruiters aren't much better. This page filters for physician ownership specifically, so you can focus on practices where clinical autonomy isn't just a talking point in an interview. It's built into the ownership structure.
South Dakota's physician-owned rheumatology directory lists 5 practice locations across 2 cities.
None of the rheumatology practices listed in South Dakota carry a PE-Backed or Corporate-Acquired flag. All listings in this directory are physician-owned independent practices verified through NPPES.
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Daniel Aragón, MD, MBAThere are 5 physician-owned rheumatology private practices in South Dakota, verified against the NPPES NPI Registry. All are independently operated. Hospital-employed, government, corporate, and academic positions are excluded.
A physician-owned practice is one where licensed physicians hold controlling ownership of the business entity. This is distinct from hospital employment, corporate medical groups, or private equity-backed practices where non-physician entities control the business.
The Corporate-Acquired flag means the practice was historically physician-owned but has since been acquired by a corporate entity such as Optum. The MSO-Affiliated flag means the practice uses a Management Services Organization for billing and administration while physicians retain practice-level ownership.
South Dakota's only physician-owned rheumatology practice in this directory is Yankton Medical Clinic - Rheumatology in Yankton.
NPPES is the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System, a federal database maintained by CMS. Every practice in this directory has an active NPI record in NPPES, confirming it is a registered U.S. medical practice.
White-bagging is a payer policy requiring the drug to be dispensed by a specialty pharmacy and shipped to the physician's office rather than purchased directly by the practice. This eliminates the buy-and-bill drug margin, the practice bills only for administration, not for the drug itself. Brown-bagging requires the patient to pick up the drug from the pharmacy and bring it to the office. Both policies significantly reduce infusion revenue in private rheumatology practices. Ask any prospective practice what percentage of their commercial contracts allow traditional buy-and-bill versus requiring white-bagging.
| Physician-Owned | Hospital-Employed | Corporate / PE-Backed | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who controls the practice | Physicians | Health system | Non-physician entity |
| Non-compete scope | Narrower, negotiable | Broad | Very broad |
| Partnership / buy-in path | Common | Rare | Rare |
| Call schedule flexibility | Higher | Variable | Lower |
| Productivity bonus upside | High | Moderate | Moderate |
| Included in this directory | Yes | No | Flagged |
This directory is maintained by Daniel Aragón, MD, MBA, a physician who just walked this path. All listings are pulled from the NPPES NPI Registry (CMS.gov), the federal database of all U.S. medical providers. Hospital-employed, corporate, and government-operated positions are excluded. Last updated: .
Built by a physician who just walked this path. Daniel Aragón, MD, MBA.
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