Here are seven statistics about the employment and compensation anesthesiologists working on a locum tenens and/or permanent basis, according to the LocumTenens.com 2009 Compensation and Employment ...

In addition to specifying your compensation, it's standard for a locum contract to specify that your round-trip airfare, lodging, rental car, and malpractice insurance are covered expenses. [16] ...

Although many people think of locum tenens as a doctor constantly on the move to exotic places, the fact is that increasingly more physicians are making locum tenens their primary career. And they're ...

Twenty years ago, locum tenens physicians were a relative anomaly at hospitals and medical groups. Today, 77% of facilities are using locum tenens physicians to maintain services while they seek ...

Many physicians who are coming to the end of the end of their careers are keeping their hand in medicine by doing locum tenens work. Despite the fact that younger physicians are moving into temporary ...

Locum tenens clinicians can be a short-term solution for doctor shortages, but CMOs must plan carefully how to use them. Locum tenens physicians can plug short-term gaps in the physician workforce, ...

CMS recently published guidance to implement Section 16006 of the 21st Century Cures Act, effective June 13, 2017, which allows physical therapists providing services to Medicare beneficiaries to ...

Locum tenens work was once considered a temporary fix so hospitals can maintain continuity of care during staffing gaps and for clinicians to maintain continuity of employment between permanent ...

Joe Sturdivant, MD, a practicing locum physician and CMO of IMN Enterprises, a locum tenens staffing agency, joined Becker’s to discuss how working locum tenens has changed the way he works. Question: ...

Hospitalized patients fare just as well when they're treated by temporary locum tenens doctors as the permanent physicians they replace, according to a new study. Researchers found no difference in 30 ...

Once you've decided to do locum work, your next step will be to connect with a locum firm. It's wise to go in with your eyes open when dealing with these firms. There are over 100 locum firms, about ...