Locum Tenens

[nosmoke]

Hello,

Do you know how much money per day I should expect to be getting doing locum work? I know it may be variable on the number of patients seen, but what about a general ballpark figure?

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[WarEagleOne]

I'm graduating soon and looking at locum work in addition to plain full-time work. Any feedback on average hourly or daily rates? Is $150 per hour or $1200 per day low? This is considering a popular urban setting, five patients per hour.

 

[sore eye asses]

That is not low. FP locums is 80-100/hr. ER is $125+/ hr.

Op obviously meant low for derm, which your post did not address.

To OP, yes, I think that's a bit low, would look for 45-50% but might be hard in saturated markets.

 

[doc MD]

I'm graduating soon and looking at locum work in addition to plain full-time work. Any feedback on average hourly or daily rates? Is $150 per hour or $1200 per day low? This is considering a popular urban setting, five patients per hour.

that's low, unless this popular urban setting is also saturated with dermatologist too.

 

[WarEagleOne]

Yes, saturated market. Oh well.

Any price ranges for liability and disability insurance? Do people get liability insurance for locums work or should I have the practice cover me?

 

[vistaril]

I'm graduating soon and looking at locum work in addition to plain full-time work. Any feedback on average hourly or daily rates? Is $150 per hour or $1200 per day low? This is considering a popular urban setting, five patients per hour.

sheeesh...If I were doing moderate to high volume derm I would ask for twice that doing locums. Heck I get about that much doing freaking psych locums, which must generate less than a third(probably less than a fifth) of the net $ an outpt derm seeing 5 pts per hour(and Im assuming doing lots of biopsies and such) would get.

 

[asmallchild]

Yes, saturated market. Oh well.

Any price ranges for liability and disability insurance? Do people get liability insurance for locums work or should I have the practice cover me?

I was told the practice usually covers your liability when it comes to locums work

Disability price range is harder to pin down depending on what riders you may want/need and what kind of monthly benefit you are targeting