Attn HH Nurses: Has your agency raised your gasoline allowance?

I have always thought that unless you have a compact car, it is difficult to come out ahead with using your vehicle. I hate to see people with 20,000 + dollar cars getting beat to death on our WV roads.

The big problem though is with rural clients, I worked home health in the past and those little compact cars just wont make it in some places and in the winter you really need a AWD or 4 wheel drive to make it up some mountains.

I'm a hospice nurse. We use our own vehicles daily and are given the federal rate for mileage reimbursement. Right now, that's $0.505 cents per mile. When the federal rate goes up, our reimbursement rate goes up. I drive an Altima and it's costing me about $45 per fill up now. Gas in my area is $3.79 a galleon.

Alicia

Not naming names... but I have a next door neighbor that needs monthly infusion therapy. I went thru the hire process for the HH company caring for him so I could do his infusions. Well, I get called a lot from this company wanting this or that done, drsg changes and all sorts of HH type work in the area. I asked about mileage reimbursement to see if it was worthwhile to drive my 15mpg [approx. .30cents/mile] vehicle around doing that stuff... and the answer was a no-brainer. "We don't reimburse for mileage."
And the next obvious question was answered with "No, we do not supply a vehicle."

This is a national company and I just don't understand how they are getting a single person to do HH for them... ?? I guess most of their work is agency staffing.
Boggles the brain...
rb

My agencies have not paid mileage, even when they said they would (probably the same nationwide company that RN Randy mentions). My two current agencies don't even pay overtime or holiday pay, and I will soon find out that one does not pay show-up pay either. Anything to save money.