{"id":2217,"date":"2013-01-23T19:56:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T19:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rf.podcastfixit.com\/index.php\/2013\/01\/23\/quebec-doctors-pay-catching-up-to\/"},"modified":"2015-06-01T19:41:57","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T19:41:57","slug":"quebec-doctors-pay-catching-up-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/index.php\/2013\/01\/23\/quebec-doctors-pay-catching-up-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec doctors\u2019 pay catching up to national average"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Robert Frank<\/b>
www.thesuburban.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Physicians are not only earning more, but their pay is rising much faster than the rate of inflation, according to a study by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (www.cihi.ca<\/a>), released Jan. 22. <\/p>\n

Quebec taxpayers paid out 5 per cent more to compensate doctors in 2010-2011 than they did the year before; while doctors in the rest of Canada saw their payments go up by 3 per cent. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe average payment for physicians in Quebec was a little over $254,000, compared to a national average of $307,000,\u201d Walter Feeney told The Suburban<\/i> in an interview. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s important to note that this figure doesn\u2019t give a breakdown for family doctors versus specialists,\u201d continued CIHI\u2019s lead researcher on doctor compensation. \u201cWe don\u2019t have that precision yet. We\u2019re working on it.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cThe rate of increase in physician payments has been slowing during the past few years,\u201d Feeny added, underscoring that the rate of doctors\u2019 pay increases was even higher in preceding years.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Quebec the 2010-2011 increase was 5 per cent; 2009-2010 was 6 per cent; and 2008-2009 was 11 per cent.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the rest of Canada, in the same three years, those figures were 3 per cent; 5 per cent and 7 per cent.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cBetween 2006-2010, the average payment per physician rose 34 per cent,\u201d Feeney said. \u201cNationally, the increase was 23 per cent.\u201d<\/p>\n

In contrast, Canada\u2019s rate of inflation over the same period was 8.9 per cent: On a year-by-year basis, it was 2 per cent in 2006; 2.1 per cent in 2007; 2.4 per cent in 2008; 0.3 per cent in 2009; and 1.8 per cent in 2010. <\/p>\n

He explained that these figures reflect the amount that doctors are paid for services funded by taxpayers. It does not account for the amounts paid to doctors who provide some of their services outside of Medicare, or who have left the taxpayer subsidized system altogether. <\/p>\n

Provinces use the CIHI figures when they negotiate pay with doctors. <\/p>\n

This is the first year that the CIHI study captured data on compensation for doctors who are on salary. Until now, the figures reflected only those paid on a fee-for-service basis. <\/p>\n

\u201cBefore, we were only able to measure the money that was paid out and that was it,\u201d Feeny concluded. \u201cNow we can say how many physicians are receiving this payment.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

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