I wanted to share an experience I had the other day, when I had the opportunity to visit a privately practicing psychiatrist through a program at my University.
I got 30 minutes to ask him basically anything pertaining to his practice and profession and I wanted to share the findings.
He operates a sole private practice full time. His expenses include malpractice, part-time secretary, and rent.
He explained that he use to do psychotherapy and med management but has switched almost exclusively to med management because there's more money and it's less taxing mentally.
For 90 minute evaluations he charges 500 dollars. For 15-20 Minute med management appointments he charges 100 dollars.
He said he sees about 25-30 patients a day, 5x a week!! This really surprised me, that seems like a lot!
In generals hes seeing patients about 7-8 hours of his day but is in the office about 10 hours a day.
As you can imagine, given the figures he definitely makes a lot of money. I was hesitant to ask but he was open about it. He told me that working the hours he does he makes about 550,000-600,000 a year.
I should note, though, that he is in his early 50s at the height of his career and is quite a respected psychiatrist in a lucrative area.
He also said he plans to scale back his hours in within a few years.
His favorite thing about his job was being in charge and the money.
His advice for new psychiatrists was to start in a salaried position as an employee, establish a reputation and get some experience, then branch into private practice.
Just thought I'd share this experience, was definitely surprising and enlightening.
I got 30 minutes to ask him basically anything pertaining to his practice and profession and I wanted to share the findings.
He operates a sole private practice full time. His expenses include malpractice, part-time secretary, and rent.
He explained that he use to do psychotherapy and med management but has switched almost exclusively to med management because there's more money and it's less taxing mentally.
For 90 minute evaluations he charges 500 dollars. For 15-20 Minute med management appointments he charges 100 dollars.
He said he sees about 25-30 patients a day, 5x a week!! This really surprised me, that seems like a lot!
In generals hes seeing patients about 7-8 hours of his day but is in the office about 10 hours a day.
As you can imagine, given the figures he definitely makes a lot of money. I was hesitant to ask but he was open about it. He told me that working the hours he does he makes about 550,000-600,000 a year.
I should note, though, that he is in his early 50s at the height of his career and is quite a respected psychiatrist in a lucrative area.
He also said he plans to scale back his hours in within a few years.
His favorite thing about his job was being in charge and the money.
His advice for new psychiatrists was to start in a salaried position as an employee, establish a reputation and get some experience, then branch into private practice.
Just thought I'd share this experience, was definitely surprising and enlightening.