Thanks for the clarification! I was always wondering if fellowship trained was paid differently than generalists.
Thanks for the insight. I was always under the impression pain med docs had much higher salaries than general anesthesiologists. I just heard of one the other day who is at 1.3M a year, but I imagine he has his own private practice.
you have to be ok with prescribing ALOT of opioids
Yeah I suppose those are the people who we eventually see on the news....
Same answer as above. Depends on local market, your split, how your group values CCM, etc.
In my experience, which spans a couple academic centers and a VA, if anything, CCM makes less because the pay is the same as everyone else's and the hours are more. The way to think about it is where the money is coming from. In a typical ICU, maybe you see 10-15 patients per day and write a note that gets coded for usually 30-74 minutes of E/M critical care time. How does that compare with a full day in the OR billing units on 4 medically directed rooms? Not favorably, unless you're (unnecessarily) bronching, lining, swanning all those patients. Whether you're salaried or eat what you kill, the math is the same; someone, somewhere must be billing and collecting for what you're doing, so what you're paid is ultimately some reflection on how much money your activity brings in. Procedures always bring in more money than thinking.
opposite here. pay is more for ccm / hr
i'm always curious what these offer look like. are we talking less than 200, 250, 300 , 350?
Yes. Has been my experience as well as my colleagues
Changes every decade.
