Anyone do Travel/Home Health?

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I was looking into doing some travel or temporary work since I have been unable to find a job in my area as a new grad. I'm actually signing up with a company in December to do home health assessments for medicare, but was looking into other "visiting NP" type of temporary jobs. Was wondering if any of you have done this, if it is lucrative enough (most jobs have you as a 1099 contractor), if there were certain companies to work for that were better than others, how many visits you can really get done in a day, ,etc.

Also if anyone is interested in the details of the job I'm starting in Dec PM me and I'd be happy to tell you about it should you be located in FL, maybe we could even share resources or something. The market is hard here for new grads...

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Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

One of the hospitals where I live uses MDs for hospice home visits and have heard they might be utilizing APNs for home visits. Unsure of the billing though.

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Hi, I am interested in finding out how is your experience. How many patients have you been able to see daily? How is the pay?

thanks

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It was to do medicare home advantage visits where I would perform a h&p, chart review, kind of like case management stuff. It would be about an hour per visit. I was paid $65/visit as a 1099 contractor. The position I took was 3 hrs from my home so I would travel and stay in a hotel for 4 days, work a 10hr day then drive home. I could not handle being away from home, living out of my car and hotel rooms. Too lonley, so I only lasted a short while. I took it because I was desperate for any work I could get as a new grad

The $65/visit does not really come out to all that much once you factor in taxes 15% (at least), gas, time spent reviewing charts before the visit, paying your own health ins and benefits. I think I calculated it all out and it's about 30-40% to cover your gas, taxes, benefits that another job would give. So your really working for like $39 or less per visit. I could do 8 per day because many visits were a double at the same location (husband/wife).

If jobs were plentiful and times were good it's not a job I'd take again, too low pay.

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