From 2009-2010, the number of hospitals and practices using locum tenens physicians rose from 72 to 85 percent, according to at Staff Care, a locum tenens company. Hospitals now account for nearly ...

The per diem rates for locum tenens physicians paid by healthcare facilities ... (General) — $1,675 to $ ... Obstetrics/Gynecology — $1,350 to $1,550; Gastroenterology — $1,335 to $1,900 ...

When negotiating your locum tenens contract, you should first know what the market rates are for your specialty. You can check the Health eCareers locum tenens listings to see current offerings.

Demand also continues to be strong for locum tenens nurse practitioners and physician assistants, with 32% of healthcare facility managers reporting use of their services in 2019, up from 26.4% in ...

A little-known fact about health care is that hospitals frequently hire substitute doctors – or, as they are called in the profession, locum tenens physicians – to temporarily cover for ...

Patients seen only by locum tenens were associated with an adjusted LOS of 1 day shorter compared with patients seen exclusively by employed physicians (95% CI, −1.6 to −0.43; P < .001), with ...

Locums Choice, a leading national locum tenens agency, is proud to announce that it has been awarded a GSA Schedule 621 I contract (36F79723D0113) by the General Services Administration to provide ...

General surgery, as the name denotes, encompasses a broad spectrum of operative procedures with regard to the diagnosis and treatment of injuries and diseases in any region of the body.

The general surgeon removes the gallbladder. Breast and colon tumors and hernias are also matters for the surgeon's scalpel. Jennifer Peppers.