Physician Family Financial Advisors Blog

You started at the hospital, sat through forty minutes of benefits onboarding, checked a box next to a contribution percentage, and moved on to creden...

You are four years into a hospitalist job at a nonprofit medical center. Forty-eight certified payments are sitting in your Federal Student Aid accoun...

You out-earn almost everyone you went to high school with. But you can still feel a small jolt in your chest when a $4,000 bill lands with no warning....

You accepted the new position. The offer looked good, the commute is shorter, and the group seems like people you would want to work beside. Then some...

You are in the last year of training. The signing bonus conversation is finally happening, the credentialing paperwork is stacking up, and somewhere i...

The Paycheck That Arrives Whole

The first locum shift payment, or the first medical-director stipend, or the first expert-witness fee, tends to land ...

You spent more than a decade learning medicine and roughly zero hours learning employment law. Then a PDF lands in your inbox with your name on it, tw...

You are 54, you have been an attending for two decades, and for years the catch-up contribution was one of the few tax decisions that took no thought ...

The Checkbox in Your Benefits Portal

Somewhere in your employer's benefits portal there is a small radio button. Pre-tax. Roth. Sometimes a slider th...

The pitch usually arrives in one of a few ways. A colleague in your group mentions the person who handled their insurance and offers to make an introd...

You take a W-2 job for the bulk of your income, and then you pick up locum shifts, read studies on the side, sit on an advisory board, or moonlight a ...

You matched, you trained, and now a contract is sitting in your inbox with a number on it that finally reflects all those years. The base salary looks...