Recent content by sweetalkr

Club - your second phrase is correct. if i bring in 1 new patient into a pain clinic, what do they generate on average? that way i can extrapolate it to 200 and 2000

Curious - does anyone know what the average revenue is from one pain patient new consult? I am constructing a pro forma and i have all the numbers. I just don't know how to extrapolate how much i can generate per patient when submitting this to hospital admin. thanks in advance

i have had great results with joint problems. if it has ketamine in it, it is a plus. make sure you know if the issue is more myofascial, neuropathic, or inflammatory. choose the correct ingredients corresponding with the disease, and make sure ketamine is in it. I have had great success with...

thanks!

I would choose different colleagues, say maybe CRNAs, that had the n*$s to fight against other a)specialties b) inferior trained mid levels that would donate to organizations to back us up as a specialty

What CPT code do yall use for scar neuroma injections?

i heard this also california already doesn't reimburse physicians that have a less than 50% implant ratio, which is still pretty bad. lots of over utilizers. i'm pretty good friends with one of my former reps in another state. he tells me the horror stories of some docs still doing 5-10...

there are a LOT of incentives to work for hospitals. Right now, reimbursement for everything is increasing above outpatient because the government wants everyone to work for a hospital. now that already 60% of all private practices have been bought out by hospitals, they will slowly start to...

so if you disagree physicians shouldn't be denying care to medicare/medicaid patients, then what is your resolution to the issue? What do you suggest? besides taking a paycut? insider trading is legal in congress. thought I might add that hear for sake of knowledge

I like to trial on Friday and then pull Monday if they work full time. they can take Friday off and only half of Monday. for the non working crowd (80% of patients) they can keep it in as long as they want with a limit of next friday. currently trialing Mondays and pulling Friday but it's...

Thank you so much, everyone. I don't know how the meeting will be. Next week I will update what my experience was, just for the young guys to know what happens and for the other guys to confirm or *hopefully* realize that maybe there are some nice people out there that want doctors to succeed...

Also is there a sight to collect facility fees, etc? I have like a week before the meeting :)

Wow thank you for the responses. I truly appreciate the help. Yes I have heard many horror stories about the hire/fire hospitals, but it is also attached to an academic center, so I feel like being in an academic place may be more safe? Now I just feel naive by even writing it. 1) What is FTE...

I fell into a great conversation with the right person, and he is setting me up with the CEO of a hospital that needs a Pain Department made from scratch. They want me to head it and i will be pitching it next week. I have never done this. I think I know the basics of a sustainable model...

I appreciate the very detailed response. I would never advocate walking out on patients, but only seeing urgent/emergent patients and not seeing new patients, not seeing routine f/u or anything non-emergent. once elective surgeries stop and a hospital loses (when i was in residency it was)...