Private Practice question

[djmd]

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Looking for some info from the private practice people here (or anyone else in the know)

What volume of surgicals/cytos supports what number of pathologists?

I know all sorts of other factors (reimbursement rate, types of cases, etc...) alter what the payout per case is, and some practices want to work hard and make more and others are lifestyle before paycheck...

I'm too used to Academics, I can't get a handle on annual cases: pathologist ratios...

 

[LADoc00]

Looking for some info from the private practice people here (or anyone else in the know)

What volume of surgicals/cytos supports what number of pathologists?

I know all sorts of other factors (reimbursement rate, types of cases, etc...) alter what the payout per case is, and some practices want to work hard and make more and others are lifestyle before paycheck...

I'm too used to Academics, I can't get a handle on annual cases😛athologist ratios...

varies ALOT...Ive seen guys who crank out 10,000+/year and others who do less than 3K. And it seems the pay is not a perfect correlation, meaning that it SEEMS to me that those at the sub 3K surgicals/year are making 60% the 10K ironmen can pull down, not the 33% you would expect. Likely that has to do with other CP income and procedures.

FYI THO: I used to be obssessed with numbers, I still have multipage spread sheets with different job offers and all the associate stats but I have found those seriously to be lacking. The biggest X factor is the make up of those cases. Ive been in jobs where the case load was small but all the cases sucked, and others where I could churn out 2x as much in 1/3 the time. AND it seems it can be very very hard to predict what you are really getting yourself into unless you spend a week or 2 doing locums work there before you take an offer.

 

[djmd]

(trimmed a bunch of exactly what I DIDN'T want to hear)...AND it seems it can be very very hard to predict what you are really getting yourself into unless you spend a week or 2 doing locums work there before you take an offer.

Damn it, that is exactly what I didn't want to hear, and about what I was expecting...

I guess it is back to asking about case volume/type...

You don't really recommend doing the Locums work thing do you?
I can't see as a first job approach...

I did the number game / spreadsheet for residency.. I didn't think it would work too well for jobs, but had to ask.

 

[anencephalic]

I did the number game / spreadsheet for residency.. I didn't think it would work too well for jobs, but had to ask.

My residency spreadsheet is driving me freakin' nuts...I can't imagine what one would look like for the job market...