The highest monthly revenue of a family doctor office providing medical services to 2,200-2,500 people with health insurance in the first quarter of the year stood at RON35,800 (EUR8,500).
In Romania, a chief executive officer earns an average of EUR50,000-150,000 per year (over EUR4,000 per month), with expats as the best paid.
The services family physicians provide to insured patients are paid by the National Health Insurance House, with the institution earmarking RON1.1 billion for them.
In Romania, there are around 12,000 family physicians, according to data provided by Rodica Tanasescu, former head of the National Association of Family Doctors.
Family physicians’ revenues have two components: sums paid by insurance houses for the services provide (the pay per service) and sums collected for people registered with the respective medical office (the pay per capita).
From the sums collected, family doctors pay personnel salaries, social security contributions, maintenance, the income tax, prescriptions and rents, according to Tanasescu.
That leaves the physician with about RON800-2,000, says Tanasescu.
Under the law, a family physician must have more than 1,000 registered patients.
According to Insurance House data, 33.69% of family doctors have between 1,500 and 2,000 patients, and their offices’ average monthly revenues amount to RON24,400. (EUR1=RON4.1566)