Physician Bonuses

[Davydude7]

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To any active duty military medicine docs:


has anyone heard that the current specialty pays that military physicians make after residency will be going away in the near future with all of the current budget cuts? Just curious if anyone has heard this.

 

[colbgw02]

That's the fear, but so far nothing has come out indicating that, at least that I've heard. They did recently change policy preventing someone from renegotiating an MSP contract.

 

[pgg]

I think it's just the Army that has changed policy to prohibit renegotiating MSP contracts.

I doubt the other special pays will change. Except for family and internal med ISP, I don't think they've changed in 20+ years. But anything is possible.

 

[Davydude7]

I think it's just the Army that has changed policy to prohibit renegotiating MSP contracts.

I doubt the other special pays will change. Except for family and internal med ISP, I don't think they've changed in 20+ years. But anything is possible.

Has something changed with the Family and IM ISP recently?

 

[pgg]

Has something changed with the Family and IM ISP recently?

Their ISP went from $12K to $20K a few years ago.

I don't believe any other specialty's ISP has changed in a couple decades. Likewise ASP, VSP, BCP have all been the same since at least the early 90s.

I think (but am not sure) that MSP and the MSP-ISP figures have changed a little over the years. Since this is the primary stay-vs-go carrot for people without existing service obligations, I would expect this to be where they made changes based on perceived retention needs.


They're also going to start using a different metric for assessing specialty manning levels, one based on a more rational assessment of wartime/deployment needs. I've only seen the Navy numbers for my specialty (anesthesia) but it's actually a dramatic increase in the number of billets. I'd expect similar increases in other so-called "war critical" specialties, and probably decreases in "CONUS contractable" specialties like OB, geriatrics, endocrine, etc. Whether or not those changes in manning levels are brought about via training pipeline squeeze/expansion or altering the size of the MSP carrot is anyone's guess, who knows, it's all just ink on paper right now.