Reply to Concierge Medicine

Forum Index » Health and Medicine

Reply to "Concierge Medicine"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Okay continue to expect that your doctor will do more and more for no compensation and get back to use on your satisfaction with the care you’re receiving.[/quote]
Doctors get paid plenty.[/quote]

Actually that's the point, a PCP really does NOT get paid much, considering their education.  When a reg PCP has 4-5 appts per hour and insurance reimburses ~$35-45 per appt.  Let's say $40*5=$200.  
Out of that the doc has to pay rent, utilities, malpractice insurance, the nurse/med assistant, front desk, billing, cost of equipment (X-rays, blood draws), cleaning staff, all the one time use things to keep the office safe/clean, etc...and also their own salary.  Now consider that at the end of the day or lunch break, the doc is spending another 2 hours to document the rest of the appt for the day information, because 12-13 mins per patient is not enough time to see the patient and fully document the appt.   IN reality, for someone who spent $200K+ for med school and is so highly educated, a general PCP might only make $150K/year, maybe $200K in a HCOL area.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics