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Average Malpractice Premiums for Anesthesiologists Drop in 2007
2007-10-07 12:13:00 The advent of more malpractice insurance firms and improved patient safety under anesthesia has helped lowed professional liability insurance premiums for anesthesia specialist physicians in America. Competition amongst the insurance devils is good for the premium payers ;-) The ASA Committee on Professional Liability noted an average yearly premium of about $23,481 in 2007, down from a 2006 More About: Drop , Logi , Remi , Average
States with Highest & Lowest Malpractice Premiums in Obgyn
2007-10-07 04:12:00 Obstetricians - Gynecologists are the most sued physician specialists in USA. A 2005 University of Michigan Study found the following to be the States with the Highest Rates of Medical Malpractice Premiums. [Note: Medical Malpractice Premium is the annual money physicians (or hospitals pay for physicians) to insurance companies to protect from bankruptcy in case of a patient suing for More About: Remi
California Blood Bank CEO Makes $357,000/-
2007-10-06 11:12:00 Makes me wanna whistle and then question if blood donors should also be given some piece of the action ;-) . Pathologist MDs in director positions do make good bucks in the United States. You might wanna check out the post of Pathologist Salaries in the USA. “He’s getting rich off our blood,”, says an employee who left the blood bank sometime back after working his term as a recruiter of donors More About: California , Blood , Bank , Calif
Government Physician Salaries in Zimbabwe : Millions a Month!
2007-10-05 04:01:00 Lol....and before your eyeballs pop-out, note that it's not US Dollars - its Zimbabwe Dollars (ZWD) [yeah...the title's cheeky ;-)] The Zimbabwe Dollar is pretty low priced - in fact to buy a kilogram (about 2.2 pounds) of low-priced beef, you need to shell out $750,000 Zimbabwe Dollars ! Currently, junior doctors earn a gross monthly salary of $6 million, while senior doctors earn $10 million More About: Government , Millions , Physician , Month
Patient Email Consults: Reduced Physician Income ?
2007-10-04 08:43:00 Why Do Patient s favor email consults with Physician s ? 1. Saves Time (10 minutes to compose and send an email versus an hour or more to drive, wait for the MD, visit the MD and drive back) 2. Saves Gas Money 3. Saves Physician visit money Why Insurance companies and Employers would favor them ? Reduced patient visits would mean less money spent from the Insurance treasure troves and More About: Email , Income
Occupational & Environmental Medicine Salaries in USA
2007-09-28 04:35:00 First of all, since this isn't a very well known specialty yet, let us answer "what is Occupational & Envi ronmental medicine ?" It is that branch of medicine that deals with prevention and treatment of occupational and environmental injury, illness and disability, and promotion of health and productivity of workers, their families, and communities. Since Environmental medicine also dealt with More About: Medicine
Getting the Context Right While Talking of Reducing US Physician Salaries
2007-09-25 08:21:00 In 2006, Medicare spent about 14% of its total yearly expenditure on Physician Fees - amounting to almost 58.5 Billion Dollars. Health care costs are forever shooting skywards, prompting Medicare to announce a 9.9% cut in Physician reimbursement in 2008. Will that help control health costs or prove more expensive for the United States in the long run ? There are two contexts within which we More About: Talking , Context , The Con
Physician Salaries in Santa Clara County, California
2007-09-24 07:48:00 Despite the public sector of Santa Clara county center paying a shade lesser than the private sector, physicians in the public hospitals do stack up a pretty impressive salary roster - in fact, the top 43 slots on the highest paid public employees are taken up by physicians at the Valley Medical Center. Here is what this news report tells us about physician salaries at Santa Clara Valley More About: California , County
Weekend Snippets
2007-09-22 10:48:00 Hospitalists are one of the fastest growing specialties in American medical scene. It is looked up as a win-win situation - the outpatient doctor need not drive those miles to see admitted patients, while the hospital always has a in-patient physicians right there on the premises, instead of having to place a call. While I have already covered , this article I happened to read is interesting. More About: Weekend
Retinal Medicine & Surgery Salaries in the USA
2007-09-10 05:01:00 As I write this, there are possibly only about 1500 to 1600 practicing retinal surgeons in the United states in an overall pool of over 830,000 practicing MDs - that makes them fairly exclusive, and exclusivity in the health arena means huge dollars in income. You will agree when I say high dollars, when you know that average yearly incomes these guys make hovers around $500,000 to $600,000 and More About: Medicine , Surgery , Urge
Some Canadian Physicians Bill Patients Who Don't Keep Appointments
2007-09-10 02:18:00 Absent Patients , Missed Appointments or "No-Shows" carry a certain financial and administrative burden for the physicians and even the hospitals. Digressing a bit, I was talking to someone working on a project to build a "patient no-show estimator" to decide which patients are most likely not going to show up - so that these patients can be contacted by personnel the earlier day to confirm the More About: Canadian , Bill , Some
Physician Executive Salaries in USA
2007-09-10 02:14:00 Leadership, responsibility, vision, innovation in clinical work flows and administration, corporate lifestyles and the works, the million dollar bonuses ;-), - if all these fall in your life's "To Do" list, then a Physician executive position is worth your thought... To begin with, note that the term "Physician Executive s" or executive physicians is a basket-term for various administrative and/
Neuroradiologist Salaries in the USA
2007-09-09 23:48:00 While radiologists are one of the highest paid doctors in the United States, even within their ranks, there are highs and lows in salaries depending on what they specialize in. While I have already covered a Diagnostic Radiologist salary as an umbrella term, here are some of the fellowship or sub-specialty training options that a candidate has after completing a residency in Radiology: 1. More About: Adio , Logi
Nurse Anesthetists Still Earn More than Primary Care Physicians in US
2007-08-09 07:55:00 Why I am talking about Nursing Salaries in a Physician Salaries Blog - purely because this group of nurses - I mean the Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) earn as much as the primary care physicians in America, and sometimes more! A recent 2007 CRNA salary survey by Locum Tenens revealed an average annual income of "$178,084.70 among 417 respondents to this year's salary survey, More About: Care , Earn , Primary , Prim
Effect of Free Trade on US Physician Salaries ?
2007-03-17 23:51:00 Sometime ago I had put up an article on how the 2007 McKinsey Report said that physicians in America were "overpaid" by a crazy 56 Billion Dollars. With America spending more than 17 to 18 % of its GDP on health care and yet leaving more than 45 Million people uninsured, many cohorts are now training their guns on physician incomes ! While not the biggest contributor to health care expenses, I More About: Free , Trade , Sala , Effect , Aries
Practice = Money , Over Practice = Lots of Money !
2007-03-16 04:50:00 Sounds like simple mathematics here and as a physician confesses - many physicians across the USA "over practice" i.e. perform excessive tests and procedures just to make extra bucks off their insured patient population. The insured patients won't complain because they are often blind to the real cost of what they pay, while the insurance companies don't seem to notice coz' the docs seem to be More About: Money , Practice , Over
The Overfed, Obese Malpractice Insurance Monster
2007-03-11 09:16:00 Be it Medical Malpractice Insurance or Private Health Insurance - the mathematics of how much premium dollars should be collected from the payers versus the payouts of claims, always favors the insurance companies. This is fine - no, really, as a company that needs to be in business, it needs to make a fair profit. But what if the "reserves" of such companies stood at a whopping 730 Million More About: Practice , Monster , Over , The O
This Gynecologist Makes 12 Million Dollars a Year !
2007-03-08 11:51:00 Brilliant Businessman ? Sleazy Doc ? Unethical physician ? Overkill Marketeer ? These are the different issues raised about Dr. David Matlock - a Board Certified Gynecologist and a Fellow of the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery, who also boasts of an MBA from University of California, Irvine And How does he do it while most regular gynecologists make much less than that ? - High charges More About: Dollar , Lion , This , Make , Million
Pay Bias for on-call Physicians ?
2007-03-06 13:13:00 It is more profitable for a trauma surgeon or a neurosurgeon to wake up a 2 am and attend to an emergency than an internist who is woken up for the SAME emergency. It may be exactly the same case and the physicians may render exactly the same care, but pays will differ because their specialties are different. In this news article, William Rajala, an internal medicine doctor, says- "Internists More About: Bias , Call , Physician
Top Reasons why Physicians in America Switch Jobs : 2006
2007-03-05 21:57:00 Even if salaries are high, physicians still switch jobs not too uncommonly, and yeah - the biggest reason is not a higher salary [ or at least they say so on the surveys ;-)] The AMGA 2006 Physician Retention Survey brought out some figures why physicians leave jobs. Here's a synopsis: Obviously, the reasons above overlapped for some physicians, hence the percentages add up to more than a More About: America , Jobs , Switch , Reason , Reasons
This Surgeon Makes 1.2 Million Dollars / Year
2007-03-02 07:23:00 No, he ain't a Neurosurgeon or a Cardiovascular Surge on - he is a General Surgeon. That's right - and at what lifestyle cost ? - Office hours were from 9:30 am to 3:30 pm for one day a week - 6 operations / week - No Midnight emergencies - Specializes in Laparoscopy Sounds bad ? Of course Not !! How does he do it ? He said goodbye to the insurance companies or left it to the patients to More About: Dollar , Lion , This , Make
DOCTOR versus PLUMBER INCOMES : LOL !
2007-03-01 02:09:00 This joke hits the nail right on the head about the dwindling MD incomes in USA , well at least in primary care..;-) A doctor and a plumber are going over plans for a bathroom renovation when the plumber presents his estimate. The doctor is horrified. "Do you know what I earn?" "Yes," says the plumber. "I used to be a doctor". Source **************** Found an amusing blog that More About: Income , Versus , Come , Lumber , Doctor
Sample Physician Salaries at an Academic Medical Center
2007-02-23 09:07:00 For a blog on Physician Sala ries, public release of income data of physicians is feast time !! University of Missouri - Columbia (a major academic medical center of the midwest) recently released 2006 data on their top-earners from various fields. Of course, the majority included the physicians, though top guys in other professions mostly cross the $100,000/- a year mark. Salaries of Physicians More About: Medical , Academic , Cent , Center
McKinsey Study: US Physicians Make 58 Billion Dollars "Excess" Income
2007-02-14 09:07:00 This springs up the never ending debate : Are US Physicians Overpaid. A majority of people would agree that Physicians SHOULD be paid good for the amount of education, medical school loans, malpractice premiums and 50-plus work hours per week they face - But the question is - are they paid beyond the level that these reasons can limit ? Here are some facts that the Jan 2007 McKinsey Study More About: Dollar , Income , Lion , Come
FELLOWSHIP SALARIES IN USA
2007-02-14 03:26:00 The first thing to understand is that is that 'fellowships' in USA are counted as a continuum of Graduate medical Education (Residency) and the salaries or stipends during fellowships at a given institution will depend on what 'year' are you on that continuum. To explain further: The first year of a Residency is also called PGY1 (Post Graduate Year 1). Likewise, the second and third years will More About: Sala , Aries , Ship , Fellowship
HOSPITALIST SALARIES
2007-02-04 22:19:00 It might perhaps amuse you greatly to know that hospitals were originally built as a place to die rather than be cured and that it were the churches who 'treated' people. Later on, the modern hospitals as we know them today were borne out of those churches and hence the red-cross symbol. Read more about some hospital history here, if you wish. In the traditional primary care office physician More About: Hospital , List , Sala , Aries , Spit
NEUROSURGEON SALARIES
2007-01-24 23:31:00 What kind of money would you expect after a 1 year general surgical internship training followed by a 5 to 7 years of rigorous dedicated neurosurgery residency with long hours and often sleepless nights ? Thats right - Big ...and thats what Neuros urgeons make. New York, NY: $416,812/-Houston, TX: $365,622/-Los Angeles, CA: $398,098/-Miami, FL: $352,709/-Seattle, WA: $388,112/- Lifestyle ? Busy More About: Euro , Sala , Surge , Aries
COULD "MEDICAL TOURISM" THREATEN PHYSICIAN SALARIES IN USA?
2007-01-05 22:13:00 The Fact : Medical tourism is booming and The number of Americans traveling abroad for healthcare is rising exponentially. For example, the posh Bumrungrad International Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand, which has about 125 US-Board Certified Specialists treating medical tourist, boasted figures of treating 58,000 Americans in 2005 which was a 25 percent increase over the year 2004. Adding to More About: Medical Tourism , Tourism , Tour , Sala
HOSPITAL CEO SALARIES in USA : SOME EXAMPLES
2006-12-28 20:39:00 Here are a few examples to give you an idea.... - Joseph Quagliata, CEO of Oceanside-based South Nassau Communities Hospital , who earned $838,000 in 2004: $479,000 in base salary, $136,000 in incentives and $235,000 through a supplemental retirement plan. - Richard Murphy, CEO of Good Samaritan and St. Charles hospitals, led the Island pack in 2004, raking in about $2 million, including about More About: Examples , Sala , Example , Exam
CARDIOTHORACIC SURGEON SALARIES
More articles from this author:2006-12-26 04:07:00 Cardiothoracic Surge ry or Cardiovascular Surgery is a 2-year fellowship affair after completing a Residency in General Surgery, some places even offer further training. While a lot of programs will want you to complete a ACGME accredited (American Council of General Medical Education) residency, some programs even accept International Medical Graduates who have completed general surgery More About: Card , Sala , Hora , Aries 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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