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A 1 million salary for a CEO of a hospital is nothing thogh. Any specialist doctor makes that much.

Hospitals are pretty expensive and probably super inefficient: they are 30% of NHE spending.

Specialist doctors do not make 1 million dollars (exceptions are generally those who run/manage their own business, or run a hospital - basically it's their business role that puts them at that salary range). You can easily look at job ads and see common salaries for different specialties, they very dependent on specialty but they do not even approach 1 million.

You can also look at public incomes of physicians in for example, transparent california. Single phsyician practices with over 1mil in income is pretty common.

Is that gross or net revenue or income?

the only way a specialist makes more than 200k is: 1)owns a significant interest in a surgicenter 2)is a dermatologist 3)is an administrator 4)works to death (>100 hrs a week and dont forget the on call)

Reimbursement is set by the fed (medicare rates) and ins cos base their rates off of that.

Mean pay for GPs in the US is over 200k...

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/physicians-and-surgeons.h...

It would of course take a hell of a lot of variance for a significant percentage of doctors to be pulling in a million plus. With 713,000 working doctors, there will be a fair number pulling in lots more than average.

GPs are the lowest paid doctor by a factor of 3 to 5.

Feel free to look at the BLS mean pay above there. They do surveys to determine those numbers.

Take a look at what University of california pays the medical faculty through ucsf!

https://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/search/?q=PROF-HC...

You've linked the highest paid individuals at a research university in a high cost of living part of a high cost of living state.

I've linked the mean salaries for the US as a whole.

https://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/2017/university-o...

Plenty of specialists make > 1m without running a hospital.

Twice this claim is made with no reference. If there are plenty, it would not hurt to cite a source, rather than make a seemingly baseless claim to the contrary.

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