salary vs houly

careforevery1 · Sep 13, 2008

Is the 68 a visit in NYC? I live in SC and the visit rate is about 43 with mileage. High tech visits and oasis visits pay more. I assume the cost of living is alot hire in NYC. I still think it is really good if they give you free health insurance and pay for you to get your masters degree. I may need to move to NYC. I just found out yesterday that the physical therapist make about 54 a visit. It seems to me that the case managers should make more than the PT.

ame222 · Sep 13, 2008

WOW, both responses sound great to me. Our HC pays 30.00/visit, regardless if is a new admit, acquity (high tech), admission (OASIS), etc. The mileage is .35/mile, no pay from your home to first visit and no pay from last visit, home. The only difference is a weekend visit that they pay the entire mileage. We see an avg. of 5-7 cases a day and get paid per case. I have never accepted a job solely based on pay, I have to like what I do, however including mileage, this still averages out to close to the same I got paid working in a hospital or LTC setting and with the autonomy, respect and the environment, it is well worth it for me. Sometimes it's not always about money, either. There's got to be a bit about self satisfaction and just helping others in need as well. Different people have different outlooks on what Nursing is all about, I guess.

Is the 68 a visit in NYC? I live in SC and the visit rate is about 43 with mileage. High tech visits and oasis visits pay more. I assume the cost of living is alot hire in NYC. I still think it is really good if they give you free health insurance and pay for you to get your masters degree. I may need to move to NYC. I just found out yesterday that the physical therapist make about 54 a visit. It seems to me that the case managers should make more than the PT.

lcc1080 · Sep 15, 2008

Usually when it's a high visit rate like this, that's it - mileage is not paid, and often you have to use your own cell phone, and do not get a laptop. The rate sounds great, but if you're only seeing say one particular patient once/week, you could conceivable get phone calls about the patient, and need to order supplies/write out verbal orders/do paperwork concerning this one visit, on 4 other days of the week (without pay). So - not always - but sometimes it's like getting paid 10-15.00/hr. Also, from working per diem over the past several yrs, for different agencies, I've found that they save all the "problem cases" for the per diem nurses. Ones that require referral to social work, and a lot of phone calls to the MD, and they do not give you the cases that are like straightforward daily wound care cases, that are more uninvolved. Good Luck.

jnurse19 · Sep 25, 2008

hi! the company I work for pays us (case managers) only hourly $32.00, then .47cents for mileage, 80% of medical and free dental, then we do get $1.00 per patient per month ( this is from all patients of the company) monthly bonus, and a $25.00 cell phone reimbursement (which of course is not enough). We get paid overtime too, and on-calls are $30.00 per day.I don't know how much they pay for a per visit rate. As a case manager, we seldom do follow-up visits, we only do mostly admits and case management, the company employs RN's that are only visit nurses and they are helping us with Supervisory and recerts/ROC-so for me, I'm okay because its not really that bad ( I mean the workload), I do submit my paperworks immediately the following day or if busy, by the third day after my admit. Most of our visit nurses are LPN's.