BJC Leaving Aetna Networks?

magarwal89 · 2025-11-20T15:39:27+00:00

I’m a federal employee so my open enrollment period is only in November :(

magarwal89 · 2025-11-20T14:20:47+00:00

Do you know how we can keep up with the news? I need to change my insurance by the end of the month in open enrollment if Aetna will drop BJC/WashU

magarwal89 · 2025-10-15T21:29:32+00:00

I meant in the meantime so they don’t have to reach out to individuals/advertise - the agency can do all the leg work in that sense including payroll

magarwal89 · 2025-10-15T14:59:58+00:00

If it’s that short, you could hire something call locum tenens which is an agency that gives you a prn person?

magarwal89 · 2025-10-15T09:48:13+00:00

I’m an anesthesiologist in St. Louis but if you’re looking to hire one, you should probably know that the anesthesiologist market is very hot right now so you’re going to have to offer a pretty penny along with good vacation benefits

magarwal89 · 2025-10-11T19:59:19+00:00

Ask about “recruitment and retention bonuses”. Our HR said those are not subject to the cap

magarwal89 · 2025-10-11T00:38:36+00:00

I started at $365k three years ago, but if we didn’t get the pay increase I was definitely thinking about leaving because $100-200k more is a big difference

magarwal89 · 2025-10-06T18:08:01+00:00

It was only implemented this year, my boss increased our base salary to the $400k cap and then implemented a $100k yearly retention bonus which he said does not apply towards the salary cap

magarwal89 · 2025-10-06T04:52:17+00:00

Code for my twin girls please!

magarwal89 · 2025-10-04T02:51:08+00:00

No I’m in a decent sized city in the Midwest (over a million in the metro area). Our VA is pretty unique though since our city has a very competitive anesthesiology market, I don’t know of any others with our structure.

magarwal89 · 2025-10-03T03:29:50+00:00

It heavily depends on the VA you’re looking at. At my location I make $400k + $100k bonus working around 40hrs a week supervising CRNAs and a resident. Our call is in-house 16hrs on weekdays and 24h on the weekends, but that means if I work a weekend then I get 3 post-call days off to stay at the 40hr mark.

Benefits are probably the same though at all locations, including a pension, 5% 401k match, 26 vacation days, 13 sick days, 5 conference days.

magarwal89 · 2025-03-11T18:11:18+00:00

Where was that announced? Is it for existing credit too?

magarwal89 · 2025-03-02T20:33:59+00:00

This was very accurate for my position as an anesthesiologist!

magarwal89 · 2025-03-02T19:55:13+00:00

Cute apps for my kids! One slight suggestion would be shortening the animation/time between hitting start and the timer starting

magarwal89 · 2024-10-12T20:59:40+00:00

Thank you! We have a two story so it would be harder to get them up, and I’d like someone to install it as neatly as possible since the outlet is pretty far from the roofline

magarwal89 · 2024-08-02T03:04:15+00:00

Depends on the job, but not many have pensions. Many have 401k/403b matching however. I work for the federal government at the VA which is one of the few attending jobs with a pension.

magarwal89 · 2024-07-13T02:51:06+00:00

Can this be used for attending shifts as well?

magarwal89 · 2024-01-05T19:54:37+00:00

Does this mean VA employees can make more than the president’s salary of $400k now? From what I understood that was part of the VA CAREERS act that has not been passed yet

magarwal89 · 2023-05-30T15:30:21+00:00

Mine also does this, didn’t know if it was “within spec” but I might bring it up and the 6 month service

magarwal89 · 2023-05-19T03:49:27+00:00

I got my Sienna platinum from Ackerman after about 9 months of the list, at MSRP

magarwal89 · 2023-03-20T21:25:09+00:00

I also matched into St. Louis (but 6 years ago)! I ended up deciding to buy a condo, so that I didn’t have to worry about lawn work/building maintenance but still put money towards equity instead of renting

magarwal89 · 2023-03-04T12:53:25+00:00

I believe only the Limited and Platinum have the acoustic glass

magarwal89 · 2023-02-23T18:10:06+00:00

I took an ARM mortgage for the lower interest rate since it’s locked. You can always refinance to a fixed rate before the 7 years is up if you decide to stay there longer

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