Recruiting pulmonologists

A nodule, a pattern on HRCT, a biologic decision — patients want a pulmonologist to look twice

Paid, signed second-opinion reviews through SecondOpinionMedical.AI — asynchronous, record-based, on your schedule. Every application is verified against the NPPES NPI registry and screened against the OIG LEIE exclusions list before approval.

Why this specialty

Why Pulmonology fits the network

Pulmonology sits at the center of two of medicine’s most anxiety-laden findings: the incidental lung nodule and the abnormal chest CT. Patients handed a Lung-RADS score or an HRCT report describing “probable UIP pattern” routinely seek an independent specialist read before consenting to biopsy, surveillance, or lifelong therapy. Add severe-asthma biologic selection and COPD escalation decisions, and the second-opinion caseload maps almost perfectly onto what a board-certified pulmonologist does from records: integrate imaging reports, PFTs, and history into a management judgment.

SecondOpinionMedical.AI retrieves and assembles the record — serial imaging reports, pulmonary function trends, sleep studies, biopsy pathology, exposure and smoking history — and its multi-engine AI synthesis lays the timeline out with discrepancies flagged. You provide the signed specialist opinion. Every pulmonologist medical second opinion reviewer in the network is NPI-verified through NPPES and screened against the OIG-LEIE exclusions database before accepting cases.

For pulmonologists balancing ICU weeks, bronchoscopy, and clinic, this is deliberately unscheduled work: remote pulmonology case review done between obligations, as pulmonology telehealth side income that draws on judgment rather than availability.

Physicians arrive here searching for different things — “pulmonary medicine second opinion”, “lung specialist review”, “remote pulmonology case review”, “pulmonary disease specialist” — and this page covers all of them.

On the platform

Representative case types

Lung nodule surveillance vs. tissue

Incidental or screening-detected nodules where Fleischner or Lung-RADS guidance meets patient anxiety — an independent read on surveillance intervals, PET, navigational biopsy, or resection referral.

Interstitial lung disease classification

HRCT pattern and clinical context weighed together: whether the working ILD diagnosis holds, whether antifibrotic or immunosuppressive framing fits, and whether the case needs multidisciplinary-discussion-level re-review.

Severe asthma biologic selection

Uncontrolled asthma despite high-intensity inhaled therapy — phenotyping from eosinophils, FeNO, IgE, and history, and whether the proposed biologic matches the phenotype or adherence and comorbidities explain the picture.

COPD escalation and procedural candidacy

Frequent exacerbations despite triple therapy: reassessing the diagnosis, escalation options, and whether lung-volume-reduction or valve evaluation is worth pursuing.

Sleep-disordered breathing management

Sleep-study findings with failed PAP adherence — whether re-titration, alternative devices, or surgical/hypoglossal-stimulation referral pathways are reasonable next steps.

Chronic cough and dyspnea without a diagnosis

The multi-year workup that never converged: auditing what was done, what was missed, and which single next test is most likely to change management.

Practice fit

How it fits your week — and how it pays

Workflow fit

Pulmonary second opinions are report-and-data work: imaging reads, PFT trends, pathology, and history arrive as one assembled package, so review needs a quiet hour, not a hospital badge. Nothing is scheduled and nothing is live — no vent management, no procedures, no cross-cover. Pulmonologists on ICU rotations simply accept fewer cases those weeks; the queue never obligates you. Your signed written opinion returns to the patient and their treating physician, and your involvement ends cleanly at the consultative boundary.

Compensation, plainly

Cases post with a fixed per-case honorarium you see before accepting — no quotas, no shift commitments. Fees track the depth of the record: a single-nodule surveillance question and a decade-long ILD history are scoped and priced differently, and always visibly so before you commit.

Board certifications we recognize for Pulmonology:

ABIM — Pulmonary DiseaseABIM — Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care MedicineAmerican Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) — Internal Medicine

Questions

Pulmonology FAQs

The package always includes the formal radiology reports and serial comparisons; your opinion can be rendered on the documented findings, and where an independent image re-read would materially change the answer, your opinion can say exactly that and recommend it. The scope of each case — and what it asks of you — is explicit before you accept.

Nothing about the work is scheduled. Cases sit in a queue, you accept what your week allows, and reviews are completed asynchronously within the case’s stated window. Pulmonologists with heavy service blocks routinely go quiet for a week and resume after — there is no minimum activity requirement.

Your role is consultative: a written second opinion based on provided records, with no orders, no prescribing, and no treatment relationship. The treating pulmonologist retains management responsibility. The engagement is structured and documented as advisory, and reviewers are covered for that consultative scope.

E-consults answer a colleague’s quick question inside one health system; tele-pulmonology is live patient care. This is a patient-initiated, records-based specialist review — deeper than an e-consult, with a complete retrieved chart and an AI-assembled synthesis, and paid per case rather than per visit or per RVU.

A per-case honorarium fixed and displayed before you accept each case. No figures are promised in advance because fees scale with case depth; what is promised is that you will always know the fee before committing, and that declining cases carries no penalty.

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Tell us about your practice on the product page. Every application is verified against the NPPES NPI registry and screened against the OIG LEIE exclusions list before approval. Patients only ever see verified, board-certified physicians.

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