It should. You lose your value if your not in person. I do a hybrid position and the providers that have tried to do all remote get replaced by cheaper nps etc since you can be out of state and admin all about saving money.
$150-200/hour is the range I'm getting on Linkedin. Hours flexible and can be part-time or overtime if you want.
I'm at a community program in an underserved area. Inpatient attendings here make 350k with no weekends. The weekend rounders (2 guys who split the weekends) make 8k per weekend to cover our whole census. Supply and demand at play here
Nice. How many patients per weekend doc? consults? ED? or just unit.
40 patients. They do consults too
overnight call is split between 4 inpatient attendings. nurses call like once a month so makes almost no difference
I think the easiest 2nd gig would be telepsych afternoons. I'm talking to a recruiter from a company offering $185/hour that would allow me to work from 1:30 PM to 5:30 PM from M-F. They're in a different time zone so I need to get licensed in another state also.
Might make sense to find a group to work for. I did this and get a split of billings. I end up closer to 300/hr this way.I think the easiest 2nd gig would be telepsych afternoons. I'm talking to a recruiter from a company offering $185/hour that would allow me to work from 1:30 PM to 5:30 PM from M-F. They're in a different time zone so I need to get licensed in another state also.
Would add a solid 175k to my pre-tax (with 4 weeks of PTO still) and put me quite a bit ahead post-tax thanks to 1099 tax savings discussed on my other thread. I find that to be a nice work-life balance; personally I'm getting restless/bored from my PGY-4 20 hour weeks
Do you get benefits like insurance and PTO though? Because the combined benefits of my W2 inpatient job are easily worth 50k+/year. And at 520k/year for 40 hours/week with 4 weeks PTO I'd be fairly close to 300/hour already with good day-to-day variety and stability.
I dont get benefits. I have a spouse with benefits so I don't need them either. As a residency moonlighting gig this was perfect. Once I'm out, I'm definitely going private practice to further maximize income.
If you are bored, look up their Glassdoor reviews (Talkiatry)
Which company if you don't mind me asking would let you set up the 4 hours a week? This sounds a lot more doable and would give me my weekends back!I think the easiest 2nd gig would be telepsych afternoons. I'm talking to a recruiter from a company offering $185/hour that would allow me to work from 1:30 PM to 5:30 PM from M-F. They're in a different time zone so I need to get licensed in another state also.
Would add a solid 175k to my pre-tax (with 4 weeks of PTO still) and put me quite a bit ahead post-tax thanks to 1099 tax savings discussed on my other thread. I find that to be a nice work-life balance; personally I'm getting restless/bored from my PGY-4 20 hour weeks
Sorry, I don't feel comfortable publicly listing it here as it's a small company. And it's 20 hours/week (4 hours daily), just to clarify, which most of the telepsych recruiters I've spoken to are OK with. Only one place demanded minimum 40 hours/week.
Hi there, wondering if you are well adjusted to your new position with doing inpatient + telehealth. Has that been going as you planned or has there been more challenges / difficulties beyond your expectation (I.e. faculty/nursing being passive aggressive and making you feel uncomfortable leaving early, emergencies on the unit interrupting your tele schedule, tele not being able to find patients that fit into your schedules, etc) ? I’m just curious as to how realistic it is to work such schedule for a fairly long career. Thank you.
Sounds like it could be Vituity.
Yes I interviewed for a job with them last yr. Despite they name they aren't a telepsych company though they may have some virtual gigs. They basically have contracts with different counties to provide services.
Did you walk away with a decent impression of them?
you can DM me. But I did not accept the job so make of that what you will. I do know some people who have worked for them and had a favorable impression.
Renaming to betteralreadybewelll if they are expecting that model to work.
Yeah, seems like a pretty bad gig. I ended the conversation with the recruiter after hearing the follow-up times and rates.
I trained at a much maligned VA with very high rates of SUD, personality pathology, agent orange exposure, etc. I still found amazing attendings who had incredible medical skill (in C/L) and how to deal with tough ish in life skill (ED/walk in clinic). Certainly had my share of people threatening to kill me, and on one instance wait outside to rape me and then find my family and rape them. I still think this exposure was good for my personal development as a psychiatrist, but I can see how someone would disagree with this. A person's experience could be different based on their height, weight, muscle mass, perceived ethnicity, and perceived gender.
I don't know much about the outpatient side of this company, but I advise caution. I worked briefly with them for the inpatient telerounding, and I left due to multiple concerns.
I don't think anyone is seriously taking $240/hour in the "best" case scenario of seeing 4 pts/hour. They are clearly not trying to attract psychiatrists with other job prospects with that type of pay structure.
Curious about what current policy in terms of required documentation is. When I was in my outpatient year my VA supervisor was telehealth only and while he also said he loved it, he regularly complained to me about how he was 60+ minutes behind and/or had to skip lunch for the day due to requirements to fill out C-SSRS and CSREs on multiple outpatients per day that ate up his time. At the time those forms were a national policy and having to do them myself was a huge turn off to any kind of outpatient work through the VA for me.
I have 1 day virtual outpatient at the VA right now as a resident and Columbia's are required for every new patient and then annually thereafter, but that's true for in person too. The only annoying thing for me specific to telehealth is the virtual video visit header requiring verification of their physical location and emergency contact information for every note should they get disconnected and there's a possible emergency but it's like an extra minute.
