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Doctors and medical card holders

Megzor · 2012-11-03 16:17:57

Does anyone know how much a doctor gets for each medical card patient they have? How are they paid? Do they get a set fee according to how many medical card holders they have or according to the amount a medical card holder visits them?

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#52 15-03-2013 9:14am

creedp

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MYOB wrote: »

You said that 210k was "doing very well". As if this was 210k in their pocket.

You can interpret what I say any way that pleases you. I'm not going to get into a tit for tat argument about what you think I was implying in the above quote.

And yet you then denied you'd made that claim all of two posts ago.

You keep referring to what I was implying in my post - see below for what I actually said. I referred to the increase in medical card numbers due to the recession and said many of them are young unemployed people. I never said all new medicalcard holders are young unemployed people and I never implied anything about impacts on work load except to point out that this category are likely to be relatively healthy and thefore wouldn't be frequent visiters to a GP which would compensate for their lower capitation fee. If you disagree with this view that's fine.

creedp wrote: »

In 2011 a GP earned €280.31 for each over 70 living in the community and €448.04 per over 70 residing in a nursing home. Its not an insignificant payment. I'm sure being a GP is not as lucrative as it was during the boom but when you talk about huge decreases in private income due to increases in medical card numbers you must also take into a/c the fact that private patients attend the GP much less often during a recession so the guaranteed payment for medical card holders should be welcomed, especially as many of the new medical card holders are young unemployed people who are in the main healthy and dont attend the GP too often.

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