@Always_Eating
I don’t know if you are implying I am lying- if you have a question please ask, don’t assume. I have share my contracts with a few members here and I don’t appreciate you coming at me without knowing the ins and outs of my practice.
I don’t go year to year seeing 3 pts a day. How I negotiate my contracts is by offering 24/7 service for 100 days, open ended schedule. The clinic\hospital size determine how many pts I see, plus I will come In for anything emergent overnight.
Because of my outrageous rate, and when in conversation with the CEO/Neuro team, we discuss process improvement, program building etc to justify my rate. If there is nothing to improve and nothing to add, then they just have to pay the rate for my clinical service. I don’t care about what happens to admin- we which include the CEO, admin, and hospital attorneys hash out a contract and that is that. I honor my end and expect them to honor their end.
In 2017, when I build an inpatient service line, I saw an average of 3 pts a day. I don’t always see 3 patients a day and I am not always in big cities. In Seattle I saw 15....in Ohio I saw 5.
my incoming contract includes 7/7 24/7. Nothing more, nothing less. $5k plus $3K living stipend. Inpatient/outpatient blend. Census of 8-13.
this is not rocket science. I been doing this for 5 years. Sometimes I work 100 days in the summer, others i come in during spring break anor other holidays. Not all contracts are the same.....
ps- I am all in with with telemed-all stakeholders win, especially when offering tele-stroke. BTW, if I have to see 20 pts to earn $5k, then I see 20 pts a day, knowing I am off for the rest of the year.
please let me know if I can clarify anything for you.
cheers