Just saw this one on Gaswork. They pay $120/hour for 24-hour OB coverage! What a shame! Who works at this rate in California?
Just saw this one on Gaswork. They pay $120/hour for 24-hour OB coverage! What a shame! Who works at this rate in California?
That would be my question as well. Who gets paid $2500 the next day for not working, assuming a productivity based model?
Just saw this one on Gaswork. They pay $120/hour for 24-hour OB coverage! What a shame! Who works at this rate in California?
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I'm confused. So it's 24hr call plus 8hr call that next day? If so then fine, but if you're off the next day you shouldn't be paid. I think people should only be paid if they're working/on-duty (that includes sitting around waiting for something to happen)
Why would you take night calls ,for a total of 5k more when you can make 4000 working 8 hrs each day for 2 days. In other words just 1000 is not sufficient to make someone do night calls. Hospitals want anesthesiologists just to work 7pm to 7 am like night float. How do you think that needs to be priced? Remember when you do night float you let the regular anesthesia members to have high Productivity and therefore the higher The MGMA income Bracket. The bottom line is the dollar is worthless and has no saving grace.
At least in my system you can always request to work the next day, but after an OB call most don’t want to. The hospital should pay you something for parking in the hospital overnight and everything on top of that is money you make. Some places the night call person always works during the day. So really the money that some people make “the next day” at some places they make it “the same day”. I just could never support paying someone for not working or being on duty. I understand what your saying about “the risk of taking call at the expense of not working cases the next day” My answer to that would be to heavily weigh the night call stipend.
Thread is so old I couldn’t remember if they were mentioned
No bet
Yuck. Our crnas definitely make that and more for what is probably less total work, and I'm in a LCOL area.
I don't feel like you do this job as you sole source of income. This job is either for the spouse of someone in LA who makes "the real money", like Kenya Barris, or this is the side gig of someone's real job.
It's 90% eyes. It's basically sitting there, giving 1mg of versed, and charting. Not terrible if you're in the twilight of your career, kids have graduated college, and you own your home. Horrible if you're a new grad or mid career.
I'd look at it more as doing quasi-locums and using it to pay for all the fun stuff in retirement instead of spending retirement savings. Also, you can set you kids up even better. Probably do it for 5 years if you hang in there until you're 70 and that's an extra million.
Even if you just tread water and pay your living expenses for five years, you would let your retirement accounts keep rolling up over that time.
It’s very trendy to trash jobs on here without examining the fact that some jobs may be targeted to a specific demographic. Not every Gasworks post is for the new grad with bills to pay and a family to raise.
It's probably one of the closest rooms in anesthesia to where your entire anesthetic is doing nothing. I'm not saying I'd want that but I'm sure there's a handful of people who just want to avoid any sniff of drama
It's all about picking battles. Think about how much that battle is worth versus how much you get paid to sit and surf the net during that case. Pick your battles.
