Average RVU's in outpatient practice?

[Chrismander]

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I'm interviewing for several type of jobs right now and am trying to gauge how I'll be doing once I move on to production. Several of the outpatient clinics are 4 pts per hour med visits. This adds up to like 5500-6000 RVU's per year depending on no-show rate. Am I missing something here? When multiplied by the RVU conversion factor, the salary seems absurdly high. For those of you in private practice or in the know, how many RVU's does the average psychiatrist pull in a year?

Thanks!

 

[digitlnoize]

I'm interviewing for several type of jobs right now and am trying to gauge how I'll be doing once I move on to production. Several of the outpatient clinics are 4 pts per hour med visits. This adds up to like 5500-6000 RVU's per year depending on no-show rate. Am I missing something here? When multiplied by the RVU conversion factor, the salary seems absurdly high. For those of you in private practice or in the know, how many RVU's does the average psychiatrist pull in a year?

Thanks!

Yes, something must be up because psych pays very poorly and has a horrible lifestyle.

(You'll have to forgive me...I'm matching this year, hopefully.) 😉

 

[dl2dp2]

I'm interviewing for several type of jobs right now and am trying to gauge how I'll be doing once I move on to production. Several of the outpatient clinics are 4 pts per hour med visits. This adds up to like 5500-6000 RVU's per year depending on no-show rate. Am I missing something here? When multiplied by the RVU conversion factor, the salary seems absurdly high. For those of you in private practice or in the know, how many RVU's does the average psychiatrist pull in a year?

Thanks!

A quick search of the interwebs shows that the fiscal year 2011 RVU conversion factor is about 34. 6000*34 = 204,000. Pre office overhead.

It's very obvious why people can't really sustain on a pure medicare practice.

 

[Chrismander]

A quick search of the interwebs shows that the fiscal year 2011 RVU conversion factor is about 34. 6000*34 = 204,000. Pre office overhead.

It's very obvious why people can't really sustain on a pure medicare practice.

In my neck of the woods the RVU for a psychiatrist is 50+ dollars. At one hospital I interviewed at there's a tiered RVU system wherein each Decile of RVU's you climb nets you a higher per RVU return, meaning the RVU's above say 5000 net you $80 per RVU. Overhead is built in.