Salary and Benefits 
Benefits
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital provides house staff and their enrolled eligible dependents with hospital and medical insurance benefits, as well as vision and dental plans, with a variety of managed-care and preferred provider options. Long-term disability and professional liability insurance is provided at no charge to the house staff. Basic Life Insurance of $100,000 is also provided at no cost to the house staff employee. Dependent spending accounts and financial planning is also available.
Current and detailed information on all benefits is available through the House Staff Office at 212.305.6081 or on-line at http://e-net.nyp.org/gme.
The following is up-to-date as of August 2003 and is provided here because of the limited access to the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital GME site.
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital FlexAbility Program
The following policies have been compiled by the Department of Graduate Medical Education at New York Presbyterian Hospital for use by the members of the Graduate Staff, Program Directors, and Clinical Leaders. NYPH is committed to offering quality GME programs as part of its education mission. The institution provides mechanisms the insure that all programs are in compliance with the Institutional and Program Requirements for Residency Training as promulgated by the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).
Eligibility
Regular full-time graduate staff.
Legal spouse/domestic partner and unmarried dependent children to the end of the year in which they attain age 19 (to the end of the year they attain age 23, if full-time students).
Effective Date
First of the month coincident with or following date of hire.
Benefit Options
- Medical
- Empire Direct Connection EPO
- Empire Deluxe PPO
- Dental
- Prudential Traditional Dental
- Columbia Dental
- Dental Associates
- Prudential Healthcare PDO
- Aetna US Healthcare Advantage Managed Dental Plus
- Survival Benefits
- Basic life insurance is $100,000 provided at no cost to house staff employees
- Accidental Death & Dismemberment Insurance 1x, 2x, 3x, 4x or 5x
- Dependent Term Life Insurance
- Disability
- Short term disability
- Long term disability provided at no cost to house staff employees
- Spending Accounts
- Dependent care spending account
- Health care spending account
- Transportation reimbursement spending account
- Parking reimbursement spending account
- Legal services
- Group legal services through Hyatt Legal Plan
- Financial Planning
- Core Services
- Financial education systems
- Tax Sheltered Annuity: Set aside a designated amount of money on a pre-tax basis up to 25% of your salary. Contributions cannot exceed 25% of your salary each pay period capped at the annual IRS-mandated maxium ($10,500). Investment options are through: Fidelity Investments, Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association-College Retirement Equities Fun (TIAA-CREF).
- The Hospital expects to continue these plans indefinitely, but reserves the right to modify or discontinue any of them at any time. Such modifications or terminations shall be adopted by the Office of the Executive of New York Presbyterian Hospital at either a regular meeting or special meeting called for such purpose.
Confidential Counseling Service
The House Staff Mental Health Service (HSMHS) has been created to provide House Staff with immediate access to confidential, affordable psychiatric care with experienced clinicians. Program Overview: The HSMHS provides a free consultation for House Staff upon request. After this initial consultation, where indicated, a referral is made for up to 10 sessions per year of treatment paid for directly by the Hospital. All services provided are entirely confidential.
Eligible Employees: Active full- and part-time House Staff members of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital on NYPH payroll (the only exception are the Columbia House Staff members on the payroll of the Psychiatric Institute). Spouses/domestic partners and dependents are not covered under this program.For more information visit the GME website at http://infonet.nyp.org/GME/ (available only from within CUMC).
On-Call Meals
Snacks and juice are available in the fellow's offices as well as in the house staff lounge which is located near the call rooms in the Harkness Pavilion.
