EM loan help for rural hospital??

[cooldreams]

I was wondering if anyone had heard of EM docs getting loan reimbursment for working in rural/needy towns?? i know FP's have something like that in many places but i havent heard of anything like that for EP's ??

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[Seaglass]

EM docs actually make more working in rural towns than city's so I'm not sure if loan help is really necessary.

C

 

[ERMudPhud]

EM docs actually make more working in rural towns than city's so I'm not sure if loan help is really necessary.

C

Not any of the ones I know. That may true at the east coast academic centers that really don't pay EM very well. Here in Colorado the city docs make 2-4x as much as the rate in the rural areas. I did have one friend in residency that got some sort of deal with the state of Kansas to practice in a rural area when he was finished but Idon't know any of the details

 

[Seaglass]

It must be an Eaast Coast thing then. The seniors I talked to last year were saying they could get 25-30% more by going out to a rural hospital. Actually some of those were midwest places too.

C

 

[Sessamoid]

It must be an Eaast Coast thing then. The seniors I talked to last year were saying they could get 25-30% more by going out to a rural hospital. Actually some of those were midwest places too.

C

Part of the reason rural EM docs can do so well is that the lack of subspecialty backup. You end up doing all the codes and a lot more procedure in a hospital/community that doesn't have quick surgical backup for a chest tube, or plastics to do a face laceration, or 24 hr radiology to read a stat chest film, or hospitalists to run ICU codes. Those billings do add up.

 

[docB]

I know that just a few years ago the guys in rural Texas and Oklahoma were making great money.