Chiros depending on NPs for their new practice model: watch out!

[urbanrn328]

Okay, so now we have chiropractors veiling themselves by creating new professional corporations that do not identify themselves as chiropractors but as medical business owners. They call their clinics integrative medical practices and hire (or try to hire) a NP to bill all services and perform everything but manipulations. So if I read this clearly, we NPs are their oxygen to survive financially yet the pay is roughly 50$ an hour. What a joke. Any NP who even considers this position needs to get at least 100$ an hour plus a medical director fee of at least 1000$ (especially if you work in an unrestrictive state). Better yet, NPs should set up their own practices and perform the same or better service and keep the profits.

Just really frustrated seeing these nps work for peanuts and being taken advantage of. Pass the word around.

[Goldenfox]

...we NPs are their oxygen to survive financially yet the pay is roughly 50$ an hour. What a joke...

Oh boy! If only... But its no joke. $50 used to be the mark, but most are offering well below that (and this is true in general). In my home state, the pain clinics of yore are suddenly making a comeback all over, but in a slightly different iteration. Now they're using steroids and other injectable cocktails instead of narcotics, but I have a feeling that's going to change come January---when NPs will be able to write for narcotics.