When you count mileage, is it like a whole paycheck in itself???

[Jo Dirt]

I get .32 a mile. This last pay period I logged almost 1500 miles (in less than two weeks) and I will be getting reimbursed almost $500. Of course, this will be getting put back toward my purchase of another car when I finish wearing this one out (which will be about a year at this rate) but do the agencies you work for ever give you a difficult time because you are logging so many miles? One of my issues is that I live far away from everything, and so covering four rural counties reallys adds on the miles.

[LydiaNN]

I'm not a HH nurse, but I do a lot of outreach for my job. Less now than I used to, but yes, they used to call me in and ''talk'' to me about the financial impact paying my mileage was having on the project budget. Um, gee, does that mean it should have an impact on my personal budget instead? :uhoh21: More than once, I asked if this meant they wanted me to cut back on the outreach, which would mean not meeting certain grant objectives. The answer was always some variation of, ''no no, we're not saying that''. Okiedokie, would you like to tell me what you are saying then

??? I get reimbursed $.345, the same that I got reimbursed back when gas was still $1.50 a gallon! I have a small car, so I don't think it has come to the point where I'm subsidizing my own paycheck, but it isn't enough $ and I can't imagine how you HH nurses are managing, with all the miles you drive!

[traumaRUs, MSN, APRN]

I'm thinking of taking a job where I would travel and my reimbursement rate would be $0.48 mile - think I'll take it.

[NRSKarenRN, BSN, RN]

When you are small agency covering large teritories over multiple counties, mileage can be huge. Some days, I was in 4 counties 150-250 miles not unusual.

Mileage paid to employees is a deductible business expense for home health agencies --- part of cost of providing home care services. Problems occur when limited cash flow due to contracted insurance companies NOT paying claims submitted and hageling over bill stretches out 18 months or longer. In solvent, longer established agency, should not be a problem as long as they see you are trying to minimize routes you take to clients home.

[renerian, BSN, RN]

I found the money went fast in the form of oil changes, new tires and a new car every 2 to 3 years.

renerian

[jenrninmi, MSN, RN]

Wow! Those are a lot of miles. I don't drive near that many miles. My agency covers 6 counties but they try to give us patients near our own home. Sometimes they don't have a choice but to give me a patient 40 miles away, but most of the time my patients live within 20 minutes from my home.

[Jo Dirt]

I found the money went fast in the form of oil changes, new tires and a new car every 2 to 3 years.

renerian

Boy, you got that right. Yesterday, I spent $162 on two new car tires.