Paid by the amount of patients

[bhudgins]

Hi everyone!

I have been working as a NP for a couple months in a clinic part time at an hourly rate. I plan on transitioning to full time mid jan 2016. My options of ways to get paid is by hourly, salary, or the amount of patient I see. The person in charge of my salary has ask me to come up with a model if I was to get paid by the amount of patients I see when I become full time in the next month. This is really how he would prefer me to get paid. Has anyone ever been paid this way? If so, how did it work? I am just trying to the most I can because I see a ton of patients daily.

If anyone could give suggestions, this would help me a bunch. There is no lack of patients and I am only seeing follow ups and adjusting meds accordingly.

Thanks!

[gettingbsn2msn, MSN, RN]

Same situation here. And they want me to run ads in the local newsletter introduce This, and the owner is not even in healthcare. i think it is becoming the norm for this area. I keep hearing i could get an lpn for what you do.

[casias12]

My program had to seminars on this.

You can almost never go wrong with getting paid by what you bring in: getting 40-45% of the money you brought is about average (it's how many physician contracts are calculated). Then negotiate your benefits. If you are seeing 30 level 3 patients in follow-up (most places bill level 4s for follow-up) you be making $948 per day, using medicare numbers. If you are seeing 10 a day then it's $316/day.

I know this is a really old thread, but someone brought it to the top, so I thought I would mention the offer I just received.

I was offered 50% of revenue to see patients in hospitals, LTAC, rehab, and ALF. The provider has already established in all of these (8 facilities right now), but is too busy in his outpatient practice to keep up. He wants me to "take over", and pretty much be independent at these within 6 months. At this point, he says, "You can market yourself however you want in these facilities or other places.

I'm going for it, because I chose this profession to achieve exactly this. Anybody in a similar situation?

I will try to post back periodically to let people know how it goes.