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What's the typical wRVU earned for a podiatrist yearly? I've seen all over from 5500-7200. I'm asking for both surgical and non-surgical podiatrist.
What's the typical wRVU earned for a podiatrist yearly? I've seen all over from 5500-7200. I'm asking for both surgical and non-surgical podiatrist.
True. A lot of folks don't realize that high volume practices seeing 30 to 40+ patients a day are all saddled by mostly medicaid patients coming in for wounds, nails, itchy feet from poor hygiene etc. This could be profitable ONLY if you are RVU based but then it gets tiring and overwhelming and leads to burn out.One of the biggest errors most new grads make is thinking they'll see 25, 30, 40+ per day consistently and right away.
Too many factors. Depends on size of hospital and resources. Depends on size of community.What's the typical wRVU earned for a podiatrist yearly? I've seen all over from 5500-7200. I'm asking for both surgical and non-surgical podiatrist.
This situation is a 1% podiatry experience for what it’s worth. It’s what schools hope everyone will do but only a very few motivated and smart individuals like retrograde actually end up in. That being said, most grads cant do what retrograde does.Too many factors. Depends on size of hospital and resources. Depends on size of community.
I've had two hospital gigs.
First one was an independent hospital in a town of 60,000. Not bad volume but terrible hospital support and resources. I still did close to 10,000 RVUs my last year there but I was absolutely killing myself
Second gig I am at a 600 bed tertiary referral center in a town of 200,000. Lots of wound care certified nurses to do my ex-fix dressings on the floor. I have two nurses in clinic. I have an APRN who does our inpatient rounding. This frees me up to do as many surgeries as I can. I am currently on pace for 12-13K RVUs this year and I am not nearly stressing out as much as I was when I was at a small community hospital.
Other factor is skill set. Potential productivity depends on skill set. I do everything from toenails to TARs. My practice is more wound care and limb salvage and trauma. I also do elective cases but majority is high risk limb salvage and wounds with trauma that nobody wants to do. Big RVU cases. If you aren't comfortable doing Charcot, ex-fix, muscle flaps, STSG, wounds then you are going to lose a lot of productivity.
RVU system is built for limb salvage. You can really take advantage of these cases and really rack up RVUs if you are willing to do it. Trying to make a killing in RVUs only doing elective cases is going to be a struggle because these elective cases you are fighting for with other podiatrists and even foot and ankle ortho if they are present in our community. But nobody wants to do wounds and diabetic offloading surgeries and charcot, etc
What would be a good dollar amount per wRVU? Assuming the base is 250k for first couple yearsIt's very dependent on what the $ to wRVU rate is and what base you start with BUT 350K should be very reasonable. Assuming full-time and 15-20ish patients a day, with or without surgery, you should exceed 350K.
It's very dependent on what the $ to wRVU rate is and what base you start with BUT 350K should be very reasonable. Assuming full-time and 15-20ish patients a day, with or without surgery, you should exceed 350K.
The majority of hospital-employed (DPMs, not MD/DOs) are VA and IHS... so they don't have a bonus. $350k is basically impossible for them.For the hospital pods out there, how feasible is it to earn ~350k salary in a wRVU based model? ...
At the risk of sounding like an a**hole, the offer is in hand. But in high cost of living area, hence the specific question about 350k potential, which is what I would anticipate needing for family to be comfortable.The majority of hospital-employed (DPMs, not MD/DOs) are VA and IHS... so they don't have a bonus. $350k is basically impossible for them.
Hospital jobs (non govt) are under 10%, prob under 5%, of DPMs overall.
It's a noble goal, but the majority of those jobs are flooded with apps and go to someone with a connection.
Last facility I was at, the rate was 38 but then it got negotiated to 45. I think there are pods getting 60s and even 80s but I'm not sure how true that is.
Never taking call, or doing inpatient work, having average surgical volume. Sounds like they’re right at place in PP podiatry.I have ortho colleagues at $50. Speaking of production, I recently heard of a few hospitals get rid of their podiatry departments and all of a sudden these pods are scrambling to find jobs as associates in our community. Somehow they never did take call or do inpatient work, and had average surgical volume. I don’t know the details of why the hospitals decided to let them go but it’s scary that they would do that apparently out of nowhere
I have ortho colleagues at $50. Speaking of production, I recently heard of a few hospitals get rid of their podiatry departments and all of a sudden these pods are scrambling to find jobs as associates in our community. Somehow they never did take call or do inpatient work, and had average surgical volume. I don’t know the details of why the hospitals decided to let them go but it’s scary that they would do that apparently out of nowhere
Never taking call, or doing inpatient work, having average surgical volume. Sounds like they’re right at place in PP podiatry.
If a hospital employs a podiatrist who can’t see inpatients why are they even there? No outside independent practices should be doing call at a hospital for free when they aren’t employed. The only reason hospital employed podiatrists should exist are to deal with inpatients as needed.
To them I say good riddance. I’d rather have a doctor as my boss than an associate/bachelors grad bean counter who doesn’t know about medicine cutting losses.
I have ortho colleagues at $50.
Latest MGMA data on this would be super helpful. I've heard median total comp. was around $280k but not sure about the $ per wRVU breakdownWhat is MGMA data saying now about it? A few years back $53 was average for surgical pods but I don’t have access to that info now, but it might be good to get my our hands on it and use that in your negotiations. Remember, that’s the average, so I would start higher than that and bring up your cost of living etc.
Ask and you shall receive.Bring back baby billy avatar please. Thank you
Ask and you shall receive.
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