Hopkins is dropping CareFirst

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Anonymous wrote:thank the greedy doctors and big pharma.

Actually Hopkins doctors don’t get paid much at all.

+1
I used to be one.
I had 10+ years of experience in a speciality with moderate salaries (ie not peds or rheumatology or another low-paying speciality), and made 180K/year working 60-70 hours/week.
Many have family money or a higher-earning spouse.
Couldn’t swing it anymore financially, and left.

Also, because of the structure of medical reimbursement for Maryland Hospitals, costs are more contained in Maryland than in other states.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/24/opinion/maryland-medical-bills-lower.html

Doctors in Maryland actually have fairly low salaries relative to the cost of living.

But the whole system is broken and needs to be burned down and rebuilt.
Essentially every physician I know who is 50 or younger wants single-payrr.
We are all burned out and miserable.

You don’t think Hopkins underpays in part because they can? I.e., people will take the lower salaries in exchange for the prestige of working there.

I know in other areas of the university, this is definitely the case. They low-ball big time. For the medical center, with all that Bloomberg and Saudi money, how can they be hurting so much?

Can someone elaborate what this is about?

One of the shieks from United Arab Emirates has donated an enormous amount of money and has a building at Hopkins Medicine named after them.
I assume that's what the person is incorrectly referring to as Saudi money.

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/heart_vascular_institute/about-us/locations/zayed_tower/

Weird racist vibes from PP.

Yes, weird and racist considering that in addition to the Sheik Zayed tower there is also the Bloomberg Children's Center but that didn't seem to bother the pp.

[Anonymous]

Just got an email stating that Hopkins and CareFirst have reached a deal and Hopkins will remain in network for CareFirst members.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just got an email stating that Hopkins and CareFirst have reached a deal and Hopkins will remain in network for CareFirst members.

That's so great. Now I don't have to switch my whole oncology team.

Ironically my oncologist told me, at our last visit, that practically the entire JH staff (including her) has CareFirst, so they would've been screwing their own staff.

[Anonymous]

They have reached an agreement. Johns Hopkins is not leaving.

[Anonymous]

Does anyone know for how long a time they’ve worked out a deal?