Doctors in the rain of money: Statutory doctors earn almost twice as much!

Doctors in the rain of money: Statutory doctors earn almost twice as much!

The latest figures from the Institute for Higher Studies (IHS) show that contracts with the Austrian health insurance providers for doctors are extremely worthwhile. For example, health insurance doctors come to an impressive median income of 201,306 euros, which is almost twice as much as the earnings of election doctors who earned only 100,849 euros in the survey year 2022. This extremely positive development was announced on Thursday as part of a press conference by the umbrella organization of the Austrian social insurance, as reported on Vol.at .

A clear increase in income in the industry is recorded, as is the increasing demand for health insurance doctors. According to the umbrella organization, there were around 125 million e-card places last year, which corresponds to a direct patient interaction. Andreas Huss, the chairman of the conference of social security institutions, said that the health insurance doctors work significantly more than their election doctors. Huss criticizes the considerable income differences between the various specialist groups, since dental and general practitioners in so-called grant medicine often earn much less than those in more technologically intensive areas such as radiology. As has already been determined in 2015, the trend towards clarity remains: "As a health insurance doctor, you can earn very, very well in Austria"-a fact that Huss also wants to use as a advertising strategy for the cash medicine activity, such as .