Moonlighting requirements?

[toothless rufus]

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Hello, just wondering what is required to moonlight (besides PD permission):

1. Full license--->yup

2. DEA number--->yup

3. Malpractice---> optional? (I'm talking about if outside of residency program)

4. Enrolled as medicare/medicaid provider-->optional? (can you opt out later?)

5. Anything else?

Thanks!

 

[psychattending]

Hello, just wondering what is required to moonlight (besides PD permission):

1. Full license--->yup

2. DEA number--->yup

3. Malpractice---> optional? (I'm talking about if outside of residency program)

4. Enrolled as medicare/medicaid provider-->optional? (can you opt out later?)

5. Anything else?

Thanks!

It varies greatly from program to program and what your exact roll is.

In my institution, moonlighting is considered by the lawyers to be outside of training (as it is not required). Thus, a resident has to be licensed to be able to practice on their own (license and DEA number.).

Because residents in our program are only allowed to moonlight in our institution, the institution has agreed to cover their malpractice. Also since our residents are moonlighting more at the resident level (an attending still has to see the patient), they do not bill for their services.

Credentialling also has to occur if you are practicing inside an institution.

 

[vistaril]

Malpractice(at 99.9% of places) isn't going to be optional....either they are going to add you to theirs, or you need to get your own(more likely). None of the jobs I know of would allow people to work for them under contract bare.

 

[vistaril]

It varies greatly from program to program and what your exact roll is.

In my institution, moonlighting is considered by the lawyers to be outside of training (as it is not required). Thus, a resident has to be licensed to be able to practice on their own (license and DEA number.).

Because residents in our program are only allowed to moonlight in our institution

seriously? that's a raw deal....

 

[notdeadyet]

1 & 2 are mandatory.

3 is all but mandatory. Every place I looked at it had it included in the gig. I haven't seen any gigs that expect you to set up and buy your own insurance, but I'm in an urban area that deals with a fair number of resident moonlighters.

4 was not mandatory for me, but only because the places I looked at moonlighting were big enough to walk me through setting this up. You can do it independently, but its laborious.

5 nope