[NP-Clinical] contracts and negotiating for new clinic

[Paula Sumner]

Thanks, Patti,
  They say when one door closes another opens, and this is really my dream job (I hope). i need to give it a shot.  I just wish he had an offer, bit he did give several possibilities, I just need to see the numbers-base pay plus %.  His concern is low pt numbers right now, but they are beginning a marketing campaign in June.  
   
  He is not taking insurance but charging $50 a half hour and giving a superbill to the patients to file. Added charges are for labs and ekgs when warrented.  I wonder how this will fly with insurance companies and medicare if I am not listed provider.  I guess I will have to warn the pts that the ins co. may not reimburse them.
   
  We talked about doing group visits but neither of us is sure how to charge for those.  I am wondering if would be open to prepaid pts-like self-insured-again, I am not sure how this works.  Gads I have to much info, i just haven't had to put it to work, lol. Grad school fried my brain, lol,
  Paula

pattinp at verizon.net wrote:
  Congratulations, Paula, on this opportunity!!! I know how hard you have worked to find a job like this. IMHO you are selling yourself short if you are asking for $70-75,000/year salary. You have so many skills to bring to this practice - adult Western medicine practice, your CAM skills, and phlebotomy skills are a real asset!!! You should be starting out at at least a minimum of $80-90,000/year salary!! Don't sell yourself short; I once heard a nurse consultant tell us in a seminar that people equate your worth with the amount you charge...something to think about.

Patti Robertson (NP of VA)

>From: Paula Sumner 
>Date: 2007/05/12 Sat PM 04:03:04 CDT
>To: np-clinical at nurse.net
>Subject: [NP-Clinical] contracts and negotiating for new clinic

>I know  this has been discussed ad nauseum, but i am need of some quick tips for a meeting on tuesday. I am being invited to join a brand new integrative med clinic. I am being given the opportunity to build my own primary care (adult) practice with some features like urgent care on saturday, and maybe sports and work physicals.  It has been opened 4 wks and the pts are just trickiling in. The PA quit already 'she wasn't ready to return to work'.  
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  I can start with no income or bennies--that is it would be my own practice to build or
  I can be offered some sort of base salary plus % still no bennies. overhead is $30/hr. There is a receptionist and RN. And a temp plebotomist (the doc was excited to know i could draw blood, etc).
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  The doc does not know how much to pay an NP (I said $50/hr or 70-75k/yr)-he said once the clinic got busy i'd be making more than that. Â  i need advice on those who have go!
ne before me.  Do you have a sample contract to share? Haveyou beenin on the start-up of a new clinic where funds are low? What did you negotiate?   Thank you, Paula
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>Paula J. Sumner RN, MSN, HTP, CHt
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Paula J. Sumner RN, MSN, HTP, CHt
Healing Touch, Hypnotherapy, Emotional Freedom Technique, Reiki-2
3500 Westgate Dr., Suite 504-G
Durham, NC 27707  (now Carborro too.)
919-490-4656, 8#

http://paulajsumner.byregion.net  Referral ID#10102918

http://www.justanswer.com/home.asp?r=HolisticNurse&bn=2

http://www.letstalkcounseling.com/sites/paulasumner
 
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