on -call reimbursements: responses

on -call reimbursements: responses

Yarberry

10/5/2003

Greetings to all,
Considering the amount of responses I received and the number of requests to post them, I have gone ahead and done so. Thanks to all who responded!
Scott Yarberry, CO

>We are not reimbursed monetarily but do get reimbursed for mileage and receive Friday afternoon off for weekends we are not on call. This has worked out fairly well without too much complaining

We have 4 practitioners. 1 on call every 3rd weekend. No extra compensation. This was part of their salary. My practitioners get a nice monthly car allowance and a gas card. They never pay for gas and a few of them have a 40 mile drive to work. I justify this as on call pay as well. I don't ask them to work holidays but am thinking about it. Myself and a my key man have been taking the few holiday calls that we get.

Our company expects practitioners to take on-call duty each week as a
responsibility to the company and included in the annual salary. The
answering service forwards all calls from hospitals, doctors, and any
patient that says their question can't wait until regular business hours.
If a company holiday is included, regardless of whether a call is received
and serviced or not, that practitioner is credited an extra personal day for
each company holiday.

I recently left an O&P practice which had two people on call each weekend, at least one of whom always put in more than two full days of work. The work was almost entirely orthotics. As a prosthetist, it was not necessary for me to be on call for which I was most grateful. The on-call schedule was extremely hurtful to morale.

I would appreciate reading through any responses you may get as we are currently discussing this issue. We don't have any on-call reimbursement in place at this time.
Weekends and after hours hospital call fee is $110.00. They have yet to balk
about it especially if the patient can be discharged. I have found that most
weekend orders were forgotten on Friday. Hope this helps you. These fees
keep our practitioners motivated to be on-call.

we give the clinicians Tuesday afternoon off for being on call for the week Monday AM to Monday AM

I think our set-up is pretty fair. We are paid $60 flat fee for the weekend, mileage (or use company car) and hourly (whatever our salary breaks down to) when we get calls. I would be interested to hear your other responses.

3 of us rotate; every 3 weeks we are on call nights and weekends. Getting called at night and the weekend is the rule and not unusual. We average about 10 additional hours a week. We get $100 a week before taxes for weeks that we are on. We also get 1 hour off for each hour on. We are busy enough that is hard to take the time off. We are also expected to work through lunch if necessary and stay late if necessary. We can't take a two week vacation because a weekend ends up somewhere. It is getting close to being per deim. PS only orthotists, prosthetists are not on call.

   We pay time and a half for a minimum of two hours for time on a weekend or holiday hospital calls. We have added into the practitioners salary an extra $100/month for car expenses but if they have documentation that they exceeded that equivalent in mileage at 31.5 (?) cents per mile.

i will tell you that California state labor law says that the employee
must me compensated for the hours on call and that the employee must be
reimbursed for actual costs of using their own vehicle

I do alot of on-call for our facility. I am a hourly employee and I just
get the amount of time that I work-no extra-but, I do count my mileage.

Our call schedule rotates to each practitioner. We are only reimbursed for
mileage. we try to alternate holidays from year to year.

WE RECEIVE NO ADDITIONAL PAY BUT OUR MILEAGE AND OTHER EXPENSES ARE REIMBURSED AS USUAL. ANSWERING CALL IS JUST PART OF THE EMPLOYMENT PACKAGE.

You are responsible to carry a beeper all weekend and if you
receive no calls or beeps then there is no compensation. If a call comes in
you are able to bill the company $35 an hour from the time the call was
received till it's completion (which includes any travel time).

We pay our staff $3 an hour for being on-call (i.e. carrying the pager)which translates to $45 per week night and $72 per weekend day or $369 per week. If they get called in, they are paid hourly time + 1/2. If they work more than 10 hours in one day (includes their normal 8 hour work day)we pay them double time. We also allow an additional holiday differential for those who take call on the major holidays.

We do not provide orthotics and therefore are not on call. I believe that some of the companies in our area offer a set amount for the weekend regardless if there is activity. And maybe an additional incentive if there is work done

I have found that not many people like to work on the weekend and if the
practitioner is part of a large group he or she may have agreed up front to
be on call. We paid 1.5 of hourly rate 3 hour min, but required the
practitioner to try to make a billing and monitored to be sure they weren't
abusing. I have heard now younger practitioners are willing to be on call
for $100.00 per weekend. Very difficult to say when the employees aren't
getting a piece of the pie


 During the week two mgrs take call at no extra pay. On the weekends the staff rotate call, $3 hr all weekend, fri at 5 till Monday at 8a. If they get called they get 2 hrs regular pay (regardless of how long it actually takes) and then lose 2 hrs call pay. ex if a person get called in 3 times over the weekend, they lose $18 of call pay and get paid 6 hours at their regular pay rate.

We require practitioners to be on-call and they are compensated in their
base salary. They are not entitled to additional comp for overtime as
exempt employees. We do however charge for any weekend calls to either the
hospital or directly to the patient. Weekend hospital call fees are then
paid out directly to the practitioner. If he gets called out five times in
one day, he gets all five hospital call fees. it is the practitioners
responsibility to advise patients of the weekend fee and ensure the
collection if they want to be paid for it. I do pay mileage for the travel
on weekend call.

 Four of us share on-call (24/7) responsibilities. Our salary includes those responsibilities. There is no special compensation for being on-call.

One person is on call for a week (M-Sun)
During that time, they are reimbursed one hour of time & a half just for caring the beeper, and time and a half for every hour that they work.
The on call person also has access to the company van for the week.

For on call you never know if you are going to have several calls or no
calls. We reimburse one day's wage for the two day weekend.

In our facility we are on call for the entire week, after hours and weekend. We are paid $550 and mileage for any calls for the entire week. We take call about one week a month

Practitioners are paid a base fee for carrying the pager. If they are
called in, they are paid the hourly rate of their salary. There is no
increase for holiday times. They each rotate once a week. We have eight
orthotic practitioners, that means that each practitioner has a weekend
of on call every eight weeks. Each practitioner is also assigned a
weekday evening and night. Usually the weekday evening and nights are
quite, the weekends are busy. This has worked well for us for many
years

Approx two years ago the owner started with comp time for the regularly scheduled 4 hrs office time-Saturdays. Every on call was still ...part of the job. The complaints from practitioners continued, and we went to comp time for all hours worked doing pt care on the weekends. Every visit/call had to be documented and justified. Mileage was always reimbursed @ state's avg rate and never questioned

We compensate the practitioner with time off (this was their choice). They rotate call, evenings and weekends, from Thursday AM to the following Wed. PM. If they are called out on week night (rare) there is no compensation. If they are called out on a weekend (occasional) they are compensated with 1/2 day off. If we did more emergency type work then this might not work as well.

Our staff are paid 1 hour pay per day for caring the pager plus paid hours when called in to work evenings, weekends, or holidays. All paid at the same rate. If over 40 hours are worked then 1.5x

In our practice practitioners are not paid extra for on call. We take call
for the entire week (evenings & weekends). The facility owners tell us that
the salary we're paid covers any amount of on-call. There is no additional
pay for holidays or on-call coverage on holidays

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I have one practitioner who takes call every other week, and I do the other.
When I hired him, I offered to give him more money in compensation in place
of on call pay. Sometimes I think he forgot that this was the agreement,
but in the future, had discussed pay or comp time for hours worked. I do
pay mileage.

We have company cars so there is no mileage. On 3 day vacation weekends they get the Friday before off. During the summer because of vacation time of the other employees each practitioner takes 1 3 day vacation weekend and no extra time off. I.e. memorial day, 4th of July, and Labor day weekend the practitioner on call doesn't get an extra day

We get paid $80.00 per weekend plus $35.00 per call and 36 cents per mile.

We are only reimbursed for mileage. Our salary includes working approx.
ten on call weekends per year, and a following weekday off after your
weekend on call

We pay $200.00 per weekend for on call. About half the time, there is no work. Othertimes, a TLSO (premolded on models ready for trim and finish, about 2 hours work), or a Jewett and rarely a HALO. These are done on a heavily discounted hospital contract

The way we have it set up is that the practitioner on call for the weekend gets Monday off.