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Being married to a surgeon and having a ton of friends in internal medicine and family medicine, trust me when I say this but when you get a bit older all you want is to get home at a reasonable time, spend time with family, and enjoy your weekends and vacation, which Ophtho will allow you to...

Can you please comment on collection in PE practices? Is the rebate added to your collection pool? Regarding the Percentages, I have heard any where from straight 33% to increasing up to 40% with higher collection amount.

It has been my understanding that it varies significantly from practice to practice, though I am not quiet sure how it works for PEs, and whether they get better drug rebates due to their bargaining powers. AQ888, it is typically like openglobetrotter mentioned, a certain base and 2 or 3 times...

Could you please comment on retina collection schemes? Seems like there is some variation from practice to practice. From what I gathered, your collection is the clinical and surgical work ( discounting the facility fee unless you own shares in the center) you do plus or minus a certain...

Sounds very frustrating, sorry you are going through this. I probably would still try to get the most of out this year and do research with this person as much as you can. I would likely look around at your institution for other projects such as care reports, series, review articles, or...

You are right, forgot to mention, I am surgical retina

I am in the process of applying and interviewing for jobs. Due to location restrictions I may consider working for a large healthcare system or a private equity owned groups for a short period of time. I wanted to see if people can help me regarding their compensation models. I heard it is...

Thank you very much for all the replies. I am halfway into my fellowship, I started a month ago and was worried that looking too early might limit your options, especially if you signed a contract... but as you suggested, being professional and transparent is the way to go as employers are aware...

When do you think is a good time to start looking for jobs? About a year before ur graduation? A little later? Earlier? When did you start? How long was the process?

This post is a bit old but will reply in hopes of helping someone. I find the billing department and medical billing people to be very helpful. I often talk to them in person. There are also courses offered at the academy meetings.

Hello All, I wonder if anyone in the crowd can help me with billing for ED encounters? I occasionally take trauma call on community hospitals and major academic hospitals and get paid by the hospital a certain amount of money to take these calls. I see patients myself in the ED in the community...

Thank you for contributing to this thread, very informative. Has anyone heard of incentive based payment? I have reviewed an offer that essentially gives 25% of the difference between the revenue you bring in and base times 3 (250x3 = 750). For example if you bring in 1mil to the practice you...

Technically it is 15x12 hours shifts in a month, mix of days and nights, occasional 24 hour shifts which counts for two shifts. Anyone care to comment on this deal?

I like the idea of salary transparency as it will allow new residents what to expect and hopefully negotiate good deals. Post residency with no fellowship was offered 250 starting as a laborist at an east coast hospital, in a large city with driving distance to large metropolitans. Roughly 13-15...

I figured there are couple of different retina practice opportunities 1-acedemia, 2- solo retina, 3- large group retina 4- health care base/hospital based, 5- retina in a multi-specialty ophtho practice, 6- retina trained comprehensive , any more? which are the most sought after and why? I was...