Working at Sound Inpatient Physicians in Tacoma, WA: 1 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in Tacoma, WA Area

"PHYSICIANS! BEWARE!!! They may say wonderful things about their vision and the services they provide etc. But bottom line is they care about money and not patient care. One 'red flag' I suggest you consider with these 'provider' management groups is the type of physicians they hire--Sound tends to recruit and hire two groups of physicians--those newly graduated who haven't been taught in medical school that it shouldn't be considered normal to have someone else micromanage not just your medical decisions but more importantly (to Sound) how much money you're costing the hospital (they will eventually show you your 'data' and how poorly you compare to whatever is expected)/how long your patients are staying in the hospital/how high you're billing for the services you provide (the higher the better since Sound is making money off of you--and do know they have been sued by government agencies for overbilling as this is what they encourage you to do--obviously they don't tell you to outright overbill, but they make it abundantly clear that they think you should be billing for the highest level of care on the vast, vast majority of patients). [As a side note, I don't think you should keep patients in hospital longer than necessary both for their benefit and the hospital's bottom line, nor do I think you should order unnecessary tests, but there's a true push from Sound to get patients out the door as quickly as humanly feasible, which is stressful for the physician and often bad for patients.] Another group of physicians they tend to hire is those with visa issues--nothing wrong with these physicians but this group is often 'stuck' and so will take almost any job. If you choose to go forward and interview with them for a position, be sure to ask to talk with any senior physicians (if there are any) and those who might have visa problems--and get the real story, without admin staff around, perhaps by phone or e-mail."