The CRNA market 2010 is terrible

Nursing Students SRNA

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The CRNA market becoming flooded alone is already effecting the CRNA market and salaries. Thousands of CRNAs have postponed retirement because of the stock market. Hospitals are freezing expansion projects due to the recession and uncertainty of the future. More AAs are graduating. Anyone who has been to gaswork.com can tell you the posted jobs have dropped about 80%. We now see locum CRNAs jumping into fulltime jobs (W-2) which is a bad sign. I have seen hospitals already eliminating sign on bonuses because they have more CRNA applications than ever. We have witnessed a huge market retraction just from the recession!! We have not even talked about the "Doc Fix" issue of reimbursement cuts. They can't keep being postponint the 21% cuts forever. Then we have Obama Care Cuts. Nobody has seen the reimbursement rates but Obama has stated they will be "A little more than Medicare."

So yes, there will EVENTUALLY be substantial paycuts. Everything depends on how long the private insurance companies (who give great anesthesia reimbursements) survive with Obama Care. Because when they go down, anesthesia goes down. I feel terrible for the new CRNA grads and especially the SRNAs with all those hefty school loans.

I am an experienced CRNA who travels and works a ton of hours in several different facilities so I think I know what I am talking about.

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