OMG ! The price of gas! No reimbursement...

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Specializes in OB, M/S, HH, Medical Imaging RN.

I get $60 for admit, recerts, and resumps, and $40 for visits. I put about 150-200 miles per week on my car....with the price in gas almost $3.00/gallon and no reimbursement for gas I'm pondering what I should do. The HH agency is in a pickle right now because one of the regular RN's quite (We only have 6 nurses total, 3 RN's) I know I'll be asked to pick up some of her patients and they are 25-30 miles from me, one way, I think I'm going to have to refuse unless they cough up gas money or at least some help with the gas. How are you handling the price of gas?

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Specializes in OB, M/S, HH, Medical Imaging RN.

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Specializes in Public Health, DEI.

I'm not in the same position as you at all, except in that there has been no commensurate rise in reimbursement as the price of gas has shot through the roof. I used to travel several hundred miles a week for my job. Luckily, I have the sort of work that can be done to some extent over the phone, and am using that option more and more. Also am working from home whenever possible to amortize the increased costs of filling my tank. I can't imagine how you HH nurses are doing it.

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Specializes in LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych.

I wish I could recoup some of my expenses for gas these days, it's 12 miles one way to work, and then sometimes I have to go somewhere else to do an prospective-resident assessment (which I do get reimbursed for, at a whole 34 cents/mile). My car is an '88 Buick LeSabre which gets about 17 miles/gallon, and since I can't afford another car at this point, I'm stuck.:o

But I think I've got this gas price thing figured out........it goes something like this:

Regular weekend.............................................up 5 cents/gallon

Holiday weekend.............................................up 10 cents/gallon

Some Middle Eastern mullah burps or farts............up 6 cents/gallon

Bad weather in the middle of the country.............up 2 cents/gallon

Bad weather in the Gulf Coast region...................up 12 cents/gallon

Bad weather in the Middle East...........................up 20 cents/gallon

President Bush holds a press conference...............up 15 cents/gallon

Oil company exec buys a new Rolls-Royce.............up 7 cents/gallon

Oil company picnic............................................up 5 cents/gallon

Iraq war drags on.............................................up, up and away!

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I'm supposed to start tomorrow with a company who says they will reimburse me 32 cents per mile.

Don't know how much it will help but I guess it is better than nothing.

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Specializes in Public Health, DEI.
I'm supposed to start tomorrow with a company who says they will reimburse me 32 cents per mile.

Don't know how much it will help but I guess it is better than nothing.

I get reimbursed at .34 and while it does pay for the gas, I feel like I subsidize the total cost of actually operating my car. And I drive a sedan, not an SUV.

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Specializes in OB, M/S, HH, Medical Imaging RN.
I get reimbursed at .34 and while it does pay for the gas, I feel like I subsidize the total cost of actually operating my car. And I drive a sedan, not an SUV.

I have a Durango that gets 12mi/gallon, dh has a Hyundai Santa Fe which I'm driving and it gets about 25-30mi/gallon. When we bought the Santa Fe it cost $16.00 to fill up, last week it was $47.50 !! dh works from home so the Durango pretty much stays parked. I wanted to trade it in on a smaller car but dh wants to keep it for now. I just can't help believing that Bush couldn't step in and doing something to control the price?

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Specializes in Public Health, DEI.
I have a Durango that gets 12mi/gallon, dh has a Hyundai Santa Fe which I'm driving and it gets about 25-30mi/gallon. When we bought the Santa Fe it cost $16.00 to fill up, last week it was $47.50 !! dh works from home so the Durango pretty much stays parked. I wanted to trade it in on a smaller car but dh wants to keep it for now. I just can't help believing that Bush couldn't step in and doing something to control the price?

And cut the profits of all his good ol' boy buddies in the oil biz? Not a chance!

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Specializes in OB, M/S, HH, Medical Imaging RN.
And cut the profits of all his good ol' boy buddies in the oil biz? Not a chance!

That's exactly how I see it also. I think this will be a deal breaker for the Republican party and well it should be. I think I'll change to an Independent!

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Specializes in Trauma ICU, MICU/SICU.

Why do we nurses do this to ourselves? When I worked in sales, I had a company car and the company paid the gas. I never knew that HH nurses were not reimbursed for gas. I'm we're not talking about reimbursement for commuting, we're talking about the agency deciding what patients and where they accept them and then the Nurse has to travel and foot the bill??!!?? Maybe if y'all quit they'll figure out that they need to pay for gas.

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Specializes in Vents, Telemetry, Home Care, Home infusion.

[bANANA]I get $60 for admit, recerts, and resumps, and $40 for visits...no reimburesment for gas.[/bANANA]

Keeping track of milage for IRS deduction can be time consuming and costly for an agency so many choose to have higher salary in lieu of paying for gas. Above admit per visit fee is $15-20.00 than what's paid in Philly area by large established agencies; revisit fee is $5.00 more; however they also reimurse at IRS approved rate now .43 cents/mile.

Pays to identify if you are working in local area

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Specializes in MS Home Health.

I could not even consider doing HH without gas reimbursement.

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