The locum tenens industry is experiencing a “boom time” of sorts after the great recession and the implementation of the ACA. The factors contributing to this growth include pent up patient demand from the recession, an improving economy with employment and insurances increases, the Accountable Care Act and greater job mobility for physicians. With the […]
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Where Do All of The Locum Tenens Jobs Come From? Are They Real or Imagined?
As a physician actively working as a locum tenens, or new to locum tenens investigating locum tenens jobs, have you ever wondered why you get calls and emails from multiple agencies about the same jobs? Five years ago, you received emails from multiple agencies because when a hospital or practice had a locum tenens job […]
Read MoreLocum Tenens in Surgery Done Right
The use of locum tenens surgeons is no longer a matter of if you’ll have a need for general surgery, vascular surgery, cardiothoracic or neurosurgery coverage, but rather when you will and how you will make it work best for your hospital when that time comes. Here are seven tips to ensure the locum tenens coverage […]
Read MoreICD-10 Implementation Pros and Cons
Implementation of the ICD-10 from the ICD-9 was delayed up to 6 times and was finally implemented on October 1, 2015. Many hospitals and practices feared that day, which has now come and gone. Those that think the conversion took place because of the ACA are deluded. True, ICD-10 was finally implemented due to the ACA, […]
Read MoreMaking the Transition to Locum Tenens in 2016: What to Expect
The New Year is rapidly approaching and maybe you’ve decided it’s time to take control of your work schedule instead of somebody else controlling it. Like most of us, you want more free time to pursue other interests. As a locum tenens physician, here is what to expect: Availability of Jobs Recent studies have estimated […]
Read More5 Tips for Urgent Care Center Physician Staffing
It’s no secret that the U.S. faces a shortage of some 90,000 physicians with about half of that shortage in urgent care. It only stands to reason that recruiting and staffing physicians for urgent care centers is difficult, at best, and it’s not going to get any easier. Urgent care is one of the fastest-growing […]
Read MoreRecent Trends in the Use of Locum Tenens
When the US Economy went into a recession from about December 2007 to June of 2009 (it actually lasted longer), the usage of locum tenens in hospitals and medical practices also dropped precipitously. With fewer insured patients, Hospitals felt the squeeze and began laying off employees, something unheard of in years past. For elective procedures, […]
Read MoreHospitalist Locum Tenens Done The Right Way
There is no doubt about the importance of hospital medicine. It has become the second stop in the hospitalization process after the Emergency Department. Hospitalists interact with the patients, patient’s families, specialists and every level of nursing and administration. With two main shifts per day, double coverage and several hospitalists scheduled during the days, it […]
Read MoreRVU Compensation & The Trauma & Acute Care Surgeon
Everybody associated with physician compensation is familiar with RVU’s. Gone are the days of a straight fee for service environment which billed at the prevailing insurance and Medicare rates. RVU’s have been introduced as far back as the 80’s and were widely adopted in 1992. The whole of the medical system has been moving in […]
Read MoreLocum Tenens Physicians Not Entitled to Workers’ Compensation Coverage
Stipulating that a locum tenens physician is not entitled to workers’ compensation is increasingly vital to preserving their independent contractor status, as federal and state regulators escalate efforts to eradicate the misclassification of workers by employers. The U.S. Department of Labor has signed memorandums of understandings with labor commissioners and other agency leaders from 20 states […]
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