A hospitalist practices hospitality medicine ...... trying to make everyone happy (patients, nurses, consultants, administration, billing/insurance)
You can help people by becoming a social worker. I don't get why docs need to preface with the 'helping people' *** when asking about compensation. It's ok to make a good living after spending more than a decade of your life to learn your "craft".
So he makes 1M+?
nice
These are “potentials” usually. Meaning they’ll give you the opportunity to work for it by taking more call and having unattainable rvu for a sane person.
No...about half that
There is an SDN nocturnist (@tantacles) that makes GI salary (450k+/yr) working somewhat GI hours (19 12hrs -shift per month. ~55 hrs/wk).
Sure, but that's a combination of nocturnist and 5 more shifts than is the average. Heck, I'm only working 21 days this month and I'm full time outpatient.
It's actually 4 more shifts because FT hospitalist jobs are 15 days/month...
That's not always true, my wife was full time at 13.
She probably was getting paid commensurately to her schedule like many places do right now. They pay a rate per day.
I certainly hope GI allows for more golf
You don't have the time to play as often. But you can afford to play Pebble Beach.
I'd say the hospitalist with more time. I routinely smoke my attendings on the course. Trying to get back to playing more often post fellowship. Looking in to joining a decent country club. Ideally, trying to have a golf themed man cave with a launch monitor. Those PINGS are pretty sweet!
While we are at it, undergrad should not be a de facto requirement.
Well, there's no doubt in my mind that advanced HF/transplant should require more training. What I wonder/question is, do we need a different fellowship for it? Same question can be posed for a lot of different things. Can't it be done during the 3rd year of a regular Cards fellowship? Or what about the general cardiologist who's already practicing and develops the interest; can't she find a way to get trained up in HF/transplant in the form of an apprenticeship/OJT (call it what you will)? Does she really need to leave her practice, forfeit her income, change her geography, reapply for another GME cycle for a 1-year fellowship?
Our GME president raised that question ~2 yrs ago, but he was talking mostly about primary care. He is a Med-Peds trained. He said based on his experience, over 90% of IM/FM/Peds are "safe" to practice medicine on their own after PGY2 year. He said he thinks they would learn much more in their first year of attending-hood than a PGY3 year. We were shocked when he said that. It's kind of refreshing to see a very few in academia get it.
Not necessarily. The other option for a hospitalist is to see more patients per shift. For example, if one saw 30 patients per shift, at the current Medicare reimbursement rate of of approximately $54 per wRVU and a typical average of 1.8 rRVU per patient, that would equal to $530k a year doing the standard 7-on 7 off (which comes out a182 shifts a year) and assuming you're working at a place that pays you in line with the RVUs you generate. This is on the higher end for most hospitalists these days, but then again 30 patients per shift is higher than what most hospitalists are comfortable seeing and covering independently, but of course you can get a midlevel or residents (if at a teaching service) to help with coverage if one attending is covering that many patients.
The PCPs that make the average or lower salaries are either those that only take insurance or those that work in academics or VA/government. Our current health system doesn't really value PCPs from a reimbursement perspective and they make less because insurance pays them relatively low for the amount of time work they do. However, those that take cash and have a good patient volume can make the true market rate of what patients are willing to pay for primary care, and often make similar to the typical specialist salary of $400-$500k per year and while seeing less patients than their colleagues that only take insurance. Taking cash is very efficient since not only can you charge the true market value of your services but often overhead billing and coding costs are much lower when taking cash than insurance.
Is this not similar to or what DPC is? AFAIK, most DPC docs do not make 400-500k per year
