DEA License fee

[The White Coat Investor]

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I can't believe a DEA number will cost me $390! Don't they have a discount program!!!! Highway robbery. It'll take me days of moonlighting just to pay off my license and dea fees!

 

[c15767]

Our DEA was free, maybe b/c I am in a county program? Check with your PD before you pay, there is an exemption form....

 

[The White Coat Investor]

I'm talking about my INDEPENDENT DEA NUMBER, not my institutional (resident) one. A little moonlighting if you know what I'm sayin

 

[jashanley]

If you are in a university based program the university for the most part will cover the DEA fee for all physicians. Just get your director to sign off on it. Most of the time the fee i waived. Look into it before you pay.
I got my own (not resident) DEA and it was covered.

 

[anonymousEM]

I know we found out after a bunch of people paid that that was true for UF. I think if you are a State employee then it's free...

 

[USCDiver]

I can't believe a DEA number will cost me $390! Don't they have a discount program!!!! Highway robbery. It'll take me days of moonlighting just to pay off my license and dea fees!

Days to pay off $390? Where're you moonlighting? Local day-care center?

 

[primadonna22274]

I have NEVER footed the bill for any expenses necessary to practice--DEA fees, BME fees, board exams. It's generally customary for the employer to assume this cost as it's a necessary cost of employing you. Even as a resident, you're employed, right? Seems the program should cover it. I may be naive here though.
Lisa PA-C

Days to pay off $390? Where're you moonlighting? Local day-care center?

 

[USCDiver]

Well, I'm not sure why you quoted me, I was joking.

Seriously though, my hospital will pay for Step 3 of the USMLE if you apply for it during your first year. They also pay for the licensing fees. But that's about it. We don't even get all our food paid for. Seems like they should cover that too, huh? I think you are being a tad naive, because there's a hundred or more residents in our hospital and that's a small hospital. If they pay for everything for each of them, it becomes prohibitively expensive and we'd likely lose other benefits.

 

[The White Coat Investor]

It cost me over $1000 for a license ($500 license fee, $500 app fee) and possibly $390 for my DEA. I'll have to talk to my program director (who incidentally wrote the CORD statement against moonlighting) about whether he'll pick that up. (Doubt it.) So it's $1400 just to get started, plus possibly credentialing fees. The two gigs I'm considering aren't the highest paying, one is $55 an hour to do easy urgent care, the other is $50 an hour to sleep and babysit a vent farm. So it will literally take me days to make that money back, 2-3 days to be exact. It is possible to get ED gigs around here for about $85 an hour, but they're not as convenient, have higher risk, and require you to sell out your specialty. (See AAEM statement on moonlighting)

 

[c15767]

This is not an institutional DEA number. Our residents use their numbers at outside moonlighting, Kaiser and others. The online application has a form for fee exemption. It asks for a phone number to verify you are eligible. Check with your PD. Once you pay, you can't get your money back....