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Yearly income (excluding benefits)  

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  1. 1. Yearly income (excluding benefits)

    • Under $70k (hopefully your a new grad)
    • $70k-$90k (decent pay)
    • $90k-$100k (earning some respect)
    • $100k-$120k (have your own patient following)
    • Over $120k (printing the money in the basement)


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I work in a very busy peds office with hours similar to an ER (8 AM- 10 PM seven days a week). PAs work 40 hour/week and see 8-10 patients/hour.

 

I understand that this is not typical for the average peds office, but I am curious to see what the average income is for peds PAs.

 

Please include years of experience and whether you take night call.

 

Thanks.

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I worked in a very busy peds office where we easily saw 10 peds pts/hr. When the internet appeared that went down drastically b/c parents realized that their children had viral URIs and we don't give ABX for a virus. There are a lot of asthma cases b/c parents of asthmatic children refuse to give up smoking......

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Thumbs up there Marilyn. As an MA (for now) in a busy peds office (4 docs at any given time, so about 15-22pt/hr) we see sooo many asthma cases due (likely) to parental cigarette use. It's very sad.

 

 

I worked in a very busy peds office where we easily saw 10 peds pts/hr. When the internet appeared that went down drastically b/c parents realized that their children had viral URIs and we don't give ABX for a virus. There are a lot of asthma cases b/c parents of asthmatic children refuse to give up smoking......
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Each practitioner (doc, PA or NP) is scheduled 2-3 patients every fifteen minutes.

 

That leaves enough time for a brief introduction, a handful of questions, a couple physical tests... that's about it. It can take 3+ minutes to adequately educate a patient on a topic, let alone that being the ENTIRE time you are given for that patient.

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Some of the peds clinics in my area have algorithms the MAs follow for specific complaints. Most of the work is done BEFORE doc sees pt, including nebulizer treatments, x-rays and lab. Scripts just need signature and doc places a stethoscope on a belly or chest...very sad. Of course, many of these kiddos end up in our unit a few days later either dehydrated or in resp. distress.

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Because our office has such long hours of operation combined with the fact that we area open seven days a week our patients have easy access to close follow-up. Introductions are not needed as most patients have seen each practitioner on multiple occasions. A pediatric ill physical is usually very focused. Three minutes of patient education is about 1 minute longer than the parent is listening to you. Most of the patient flow is for Medicaid patients who utilize our office or the ED on a whim because they have no co-pay. We have little to no wait time so a visit to the office might only take a total of 20 minutes out of their day. I am sure that if Medicaid charged as little as $5 for a co-pay the number of visits would fall by 20%. This is a topic for another thread.

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Woah woah woah, the MA gives a SABA purely based on an algorithm without a clinicians order? Isn't that illegal?

 

Everything is done in clincian's own office:

SOB infant= Neb, flu, rsv etc

Sore throat=strep test...you get the picture

It was a sad rotation I must say. Unfortunately also one of the busiest clinics in the area.

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