Pros
The pro is the building I worked in was close to home and I did meet some great people there that I still keep in touch with. And I could come in what ever time I wanted as long as all the patients were seen for their time. My boss was flexible with my hours and time off needs.
Cons
Ridiculous productivity expectations. They only care about the bottom dollar and meeting the RUG levels. Whatever it takes. Will keep patients who are no longer appropriate for therapy on for extended amounts of time. The director I worked for would pressure you to keep people on therapy just to maintain a caseload. Or pick people up on therapy who didn't need it or had just come off. Would use up all the Patients Medicare part A days even when they stopped progressing just to maintain a caseload and make $. I could go on and on. They expect you to be so productive (95%) but still do all the other things that a therapist needs to do that are not billable. They also expected all Med B patients to be seen for 5 days a week and 60 minutes a day. Even when they couldn't tolerate that much or that much was appropriate for them. I know so many people who have jumped ship and will never go back to Rehabcare.
