Healthcare Staffing FAQs

Allied health personnel shortages cost money and can damage the trust you work so hard to earn with the community. With imaging procedures generating between $100 and $2000 each, studies show that a week-long shortage of only one technologist can cost $30,000 in lost revenue and cause community concern because of delays, increased waiting times and cancellations. Opportunity costs for unfilled therapy positions are similarly high. Hiring permanent providers can take four to six months; so for immediate results, facilities turn to Med Travelers to find highly qualified allied health personnel to maintain revenue, patient flow and staff and community morale. Contact industry-leading Med Travelers for all your immediate and future temporary staffing needs, including:

• Planned leave of absence;
• Census fluctuations;
• Vacation coverage;
• Opening of a new unit or facility;
• Temporary staffing of a difficult-to-fill permanent position while you continue recruitment efforts;

Go with an industry leader. Med Travelers has over 18 years’ experience and staffing professionals who care about matching you with high-quality locum tenens allied healthcare personnel. Twenty state hospital associations — that’s 19 more than our closest competitor — have endorsed Med Travelers. Why? We complete 65 percent of imaging technologist searches, compared with an industry average of 59 percent. By combining with TheraTech Staffing, Med Travelers has significantly bolstered its therapy staffing capabilities. Med Travelers is a division of AMN Healthcare, the nation's largest healthcare staffing company.

Travel healthcare jobs are increasingly popular among mid-level providers. Nationwide, imaging technologists fill about 5,000 shifts each day. According to recent surveys, the top reasons healthcare professionals travel are: flexibility (16 percent), career control (19 percent), travel (35 percent) and pay (68 percent). Providers just out of residency use temporary staffing to explore practice settings or new locations. Travelers enjoy the excellent pay, benefits and freedom to live and work in different regions of the United States. About 28,000 providers practiced on a temporary basis in 2002. That number continues to grow.

The 2003 Review of Temporary healthcare Staffing Trends and Incentives reports that about 80 percent of healthcare administrators and radiology department directors rate traveling imaging technologists as equal or superior to their current staff providers. Med Travelers Quality Assurance Department maintains the highest level of service in the industry by putting matched providers through an extensive in-house qualifying process and rigid underwriting by our medical malpractice carrier. We also collect feedback regarding provider performance and attitude during each placement.

Both. The typical traveler assignment runs 10 days to 20 days. But Med Travelers helps providers cover vacancies lasting from three days to one year. Facilities often realize significant savings by using locum tenens providers to cover extensive vacancies.

Med Travelers processes payments on a weekly basis on behalf of its allied health professionals. Providers contact Med Travelers directly with questions regarding payment rates, premium pay, expenses, or other related matters. Our system offers you less paperwork headaches. We also coordinate travel, housing and transportation.

There is no up-front fee for requesting healthcare staffing coverage through Med Travelers. We operate on a contingent basis. Daily rates for temporary allied health personnel vary according to region and specialty. Contact Med Travelers today to talk to an account executive.