A "competitive" salary

The numbers don’t add up.

Are those 13,000 TOTAL RVU’s or the physician work component RVU’s (a subset of total RVU’s)? You see total RVU = (physician RVU+geopraphic RVU +malpractice RVU).

13,000*$43= about $560,000 a year in revenue, not over one million.

Unless of course, that 13,000 RVU are only physician component work RVU’s, in which case that would make more sense.

But if that infact is the case that 13K physician component RVU’s are being generated by OB’GYN…let me put that in perspective for you.

If an FP or an IM or a peds doc averaged a level 4 office visit, a 99214 for every visit for an entire year, how many visits a day would they need to see, 5 days a week, 52 weeks a year to generate 13,000 physician component RVU’s???

35 patients a day.

12 hour patient contact days?= 3 patients an hour
10 hour patient contact days?=3.5 patients an hour
8 hour patient contact days?=4.4 patients an hour

That’s why volume rules the world in the current system.

How many OB/Gyn docs see 3 patients an hour, 10 hours a day, 5 days a week, 52 weeks a year?

How many docs in any specialty see’s that many encounters a day?

Trying to manage the whole patient, not one organ.

in response to the happy hospitalist, the specialists are busy doing things the primary care doctor dumped on them, besides seeing patients.
specialists see a different number of patients in a day because they are asked to consider different things.
i like how you lump fp in with im though. in fact, if fp practices ob, the numbers required to generate the rvu’s change rapidly. even if they don’t practice ob, they frequently do a lot more in office procedures than the typical im outpatient physician, altering things. lastly, the fp patient population typically includes more younger healthier adults, and children of course, allowing them to have quicker visits.
kind of off topic, but i agree with the original poster who says competitive salary is meaningless.
i don’t know why people focus so much on salary. i would hope they focus much more on whether they fit in with the practice and whether they could happily live in the area. of course, whether the practice is healthy and well run is important, but there are many, many, many other issues to consider.

does anyone ever believe those statistics regarding income anyway?
i don’t know where they come from, and secondly when we were looking for jobs, we never got anything near what those things said we would.