about DO (versus MD) salary

[PlasticMan]

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You guys have high hopes. Anyways it is tough for FPs to make over 200K. I know you pre-meds/pre-dos know it all. But believe me the one guy you know or may have heard of who makes 300K per yr is at the far end the range. My experience is that alliedphysicians is a good slightly below avg number. The problem is that physician renumeration is not simple at all.

Lastly to the person who thinks this is "supply and demand" doesnt fully understand medical economics. The govt sets the reimbursement along with insurers. Most FP and PCP offices are packed full of pts. As such the only way to make more money is to get more per visit which just did happen and to pray that CMS doesnt cut payments (5%) which was saved at the last minute.

Who said I was pre-med?

 

[EctopicFetus]

If you tack an OMT charge onto a claim for a routine visit, you usually won't get paid for both by commercial insurance. They will either pay for just the Eval and Management code or the procedure, but often not both. You definitely could appeal this and you'd probably be in the right, but I'm not sure its worth the time. If a patient really thinks they benefit from OMT, then they will come to you just for the procedure with a seperate appointment. This is not financially attractive, because it takes up an appointment slot and a potential level 4 patient visit is generally a higher reimbursement than OMT.

Also, tacking on OMT to every single visit is more or less a form of quackery.

This is what I figured. Anyhow thanks for dropping some knowledge on this MD. Nothin but love for you DO fellas unless you start with the holier than thou crap. But my "advisor" is a DO, great guy, and my experiences have generally been very good with DOs.

 

[EctopicFetus]

Who said I was pre-med?

Did I mention you by name?

 

[DropkickMurphy]

so $60 in 5 mins? Not bad. I assume you cant do this for all your patients. Otherwise DOs would be richer than plastic surgeons.

And more DOs would use it.