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Eleven GPs made over €1m from medical card scheme last year

Spending on the medical card scheme increased by 8% last year.
Eoghan Murphy
Eoghan Murphy

09.06 14 Sep 2022


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Eleven GPs made over €1m from...

Eleven GPs made over €1m from medical card scheme last year

Eoghan Murphy
Eoghan Murphy

09.06 14 Sep 2022


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Eleven GP practices made more than €1m from the medical card scheme last year.

Freedom of Information figures released to Newstalk show spending on the scheme increased by 8% last year.

In all, almost €854m was paid out to over 3,000 GP practices under the medical card scheme last year – up from the €788m in 2020.

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The total includes payments for patients and practice support payments.

Some 24 practices were paid more than €900,000 under the scheme, with 11 getting at least €1m.

The highest earner was Dr Salgaonkar Vivek Mahadev, who runs a surgery in Mountmellick, County Laois, who was paid over €1.3m.

The next highest was Dr Austin O'Carroll in the north inner-city Dublin, at over €1.2m.

Dr Caitlin O’Connor in Tralee, County Kerry came in third, at over €1.19m.

In a statement, the HSE said the figures are gross amounts – noting that while they’re attached to the name of a particular GP, they can cover several GPs and staff working in the same practice.


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