The difficulty of putting a price on quality care
The Australian healthcare system isn't set up to collect and analyse data to decide the truth price of quality healthcare, writes Professor Stephen…
Tag: Australian Doctor Incomes
Greedy doctors make private health insurance more painful
There's a way to end patients' bill shock and it requires doctors negotiating fees with private hospitals, not with patients, writes Dr Stephen Du…
It’s not ‘lady medicine’, it’s good medicine: GP reacts to income gap
COMMENT: The gender pay disparity signals a failure to reward doctors for good preventive care.
Medicare is no longer viable – here’s what we must do instead
Rebate-focused GPs are caught in an activity trap where no one is prepared to admit that consultation length impacts on quality, writes GP Dr Paul…
GP patient data worth up to $50k per year in PIP revamp
The department has also revealed the rules for PHNs collecting the data.
Are gastroenterologists’ earnings on the increase?
And how do they stack up against other specialties?
Oncologists, how do your earnings stack up?
Radiation oncologists earn more than their medical colleagues, a survey of Australian doctors shows.
Rheumatologist pay increasing, but still below other specialties
There's also a wide disparity within the specialty.
Respiratory doctors’ earnings rising, but still middle of the road
So which specialty earns the most?
When it comes to earnings, how do dermatologists fare?
They're among the highest-earning specialists, according to a survey of Australian doctors.
