Originally Posted by SuperWoman:
I have heard recently where some of the Dr's sold their practice to RHC, are now "salaried" employees of RHC and that their employees were immediately made part time, losing health and retirement benefits
I don't know about that, but I can tell you this. If you are at ECM, you will have a daily doctor visit form a "hospitalist," a physician who is not an ECM employee, but who works for some doctors-for-hire firm under contract to ECM. ECM apparently maintains only a skeleton crew of such hospitalists. A patient's diet, IV's and other features of his/her treatment can not be adjusted until the hospitalist gives his/her OK. Since these physicians each have such a large case load, they inevitably will visit numerous patients late in the day. Thus, it might be appropriate in the morning for a patient to have a needed change in diet, IV, or other factors, those changes can will not be made until late afternoon. That can be a real inconvenience for a patient who has been on IV for several days and is hugely hungry for real food. Some patients who could have been dismissed at 8 in the morning must nevertheless wait for the hospitalist's OK, which may not come until 5 or 6 in the evening.