Kaiser as employer for FM doctors

[scharnhorst]

Good morning

How is Kaiser esp in california as a employer for PCP FM docs

what are the pros and cons of working for them ?

Thanks

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[anthroguy]

They have a strict formulary and referral pattern. You must refer to their specialists. If you prescribe off formulary more than 1% of the time you will be audited. Partnership stuff isn't real as you have no authority. In terms of pay/bennies its 90th% work for 75th% pay. But they are open about this. You will become wealthy by working there for 20 years. Do 30 and and the pension alone will cover a generous retirement and you can go buy a beach house. But they do extract flesh for this.

 

[VenusinFurs]

They have a strict formulary and referral pattern. You must refer to their specialists. If you prescribe off formulary more than 1% of the time you will be audited. Partnership stuff isn't real as you have no authority. In terms of pay/bennies its 90th% work for 75th% pay. But they are open about this. You will become wealthy by working there for 20 years. Do 30 and and the pension alone will cover a generous retirement and you can go buy a beach house. But they do extract flesh for this.

Yeah no thanks

 

[VenusinFurs]

I haven’t worked for Kaiser but I bought a Kaiser plan on the California health exchange this year and am switching to western health advantage. My experience is I have not been able to get in to my pcp because the appointments are spread really far apart and I was unable to find any parking at the facility the first time I tried to see a pcp. They refused to cover my medication from an outside psychiatrist and said I must see one of their psychiatrists, and the wait time would have been horrendous. It seems to me they are struggling with physician staffing from an outside perspective as a patient, and I feel they have treated me abhorrently as a patient so I would not sign a permanent contract with them myself because I do not want to give my labor to an organization that is willing to potentially harm patients in order to protect their bottom line when they don’t even have enough clinicians to provide patients those services.