---
title: "Qualified Medical Evaluator at Dane Street - Job 742"
description: "Dane Street is hiring Qualified Medical Evaluator at CA, United States."
url: https://healthworkly.com/jobs/qualified-medical-evaluator-dane-street-742
---

# Qualified Medical Evaluator (QME)

**[Dane Street](https://site.danestreet.com/)** · Remote in CA

## Job details

- Posted: 2026-10-22
- Location: Remote in CA
- Employment type: Contract

## Full job description

**California Board Certified Physician**

*California | Flexible Schedule | Independent Contractor Opportunities*

### Opportunity Overview

- **Role Summary:** Seeking experienced Qualified Medical Evaluators (QMEs) and California-licensed physicians interested in becoming QMEs to perform objective, independent medical-legal evaluations for injured workers within the California Workers’ Compensation system.
- **Core Responsibilities:** Evaluate medical conditions, review medical records, address disputed medical issues, and prepare comprehensive reports following California DWC requirements.
- **No Prior QME Experience Needed:** We offer guidance, education, and administrative support to help eligible physicians enter the QME field.
- **Focus Division:** You focus on the medical evaluation and expert opinion; our team handles the operational infrastructure.

### Why Become a QME?

- Generate additional income outside of traditional clinical practice
- Maintain flexibility over your schedule
- Diversify your professional practice
- Continue practicing medicine
- Develop a medical-legal consulting practice
- Utilize existing clinical expertise in a new professional setting
- Work with a broad range of Workers’ Compensation cases within your specialty
- Participate in in-person and, when appropriate, remote evaluations
- Build long-term relationships with a professional medical-legal organization

### What You Will Do

- Conduct independent, objective medical-legal evaluations of injured workers
- Perform comprehensive medical examinations when required
- Review medical records, diagnostic studies, prior treatment, and other relevant documentation
- Obtain appropriate medical history and perform a focused physical examination
- Analyze medical evidence presented in each case
- Provide objective medical opinions within your area of expertise
- Address medical-legal questions presented in evaluations
- Prepare accurate, thorough, and well-supported QME reports
- Follow applicable California DWC rules, regulations, and QME requirements
- Maintain appropriate documentation and professional standards
- Meet established report completion and turnaround expectations
- Participate in supplemental reports, depositions, or testimony when appropriate
- Maintain current QME certification and required professional credentials
- Communicate professionally with the medical-legal support team regarding case requirements

### Dane Street Supports Your Practice

*You provide the medical expertise; we provide the infrastructure.*

### Administrative Support

- Case intake and coordination
- Appointment scheduling
- Examinee communications
- Case logistics and confirmations
- Medical record retrieval and organization
- Case preparation
- Correspondence with involved parties
- Medical Assistant support on the day of evaluation
- All forms and templates provided
- Evaluation locations throughout California

### Report Support

- Easy-to-use Physician Portal
- Transcription/dictation support
- Report formatting and administrative preparation
- Historian Services
- Report quality assurance support
- Report submission assistance
- Tracking of supplemental report requests
- Administrative support related to depositions and follow-up activities

### Practice & Physician Support

- QME onboarding and credentialing
- DWC process guidance
- QME education and training
- QME exam preparation resources for eligible physicians
- Mentorship and access to experienced QME physicians
- Ongoing physician education
- Dedicated physician support
- Billing and collections support
- Payment processing

### For Experienced QMEs

- Expand your evaluation volume
- Access additional case opportunities
- Increase geographic coverage and expand into additional evaluation locations
- Reduce administrative workload
- Build or expand your medical-legal practice
- Gain access to operational, scheduling, billing, and administrative resources

### For Physicians New to QME Work

- QME eligibility guidance
- Application and credentialing assistance
- Education regarding the California QME process
- QME competency examination preparation resources
- Medical-legal report-writing education
- Orientation to DWC requirements
- Mentorship from experienced QME physicians
- Guidance on establishing an efficient evaluation and reporting workflow
- Ongoing support as you develop your QME practice
- *(Note: Physicians must independently satisfy applicable California QME eligibility and certification requirements)*

### Qualifications

### Minimum Qualifications

- Active, unrestricted California physician license (MD or DO)
- Board certification or board eligibility in an eligible specialty, or other qualifications meeting applicable DWC requirements
- Ability to obtain and maintain California QME certification, if not already certified
- Strong clinical knowledge within your specialty
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills
- Ability to evaluate medical information objectively and independently
- Strong attention to detail
- Professional commitment to impartial, evidence-based medical opinions
- Ability to meet report completion and turnaround requirements

### Preferred Qualifications

- Current California QME certification
- Prior QME, AME, IME, or other medical-legal experience
- Experience with California Workers’ Compensation
- Experience preparing medical-legal reports
- Experience providing deposition or expert testimony
- Familiarity with California DWC regulations and QME requirements
- Strong report-writing skills
- Established clinical practice in an actively recruited specialty

### Specialties of Interest

- Orthopedic Surgery
- Physical Medicine / Rehabilitation
- Pain Medicine
- Neurology
- Neurosurgery
- Occupational Medicine
- Internal Medicine
- Psychiatry
- Psychology
- Cardiology
- Gastroenterology
- Nephrology
- Pulmonology
- Dermatology
- Otolaryngology
- Ophthalmology
- Urology
- Chiropractic

### Join Our Physician Network

- **Support Summary:** You do not have to build a QME practice alone; we provide operational support, systems, resources, and administrative infrastructure.
- **Next Steps:** Submit your CV to begin a confidential conversation with our physician recruitment team:
Experienced QMEs:

Discuss how to grow your existing practice.

New to QME Work:

Discuss eligibility and receive full guidance through the onboarding process.


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