Big Losses from Costly District Doctors
Today is National Doctors' Day – so designated to honor our nation's physicians.
Big Woooo!
Every day is Doctors Day at the tax-funded North Broward Hospital District*, where the average district-employed physician enjoys an annual salary of $500,000 – some 77% more than he or she earned five years ago. (*dba as Broward Health)
Like....
2004 2009 CPI - 14%
District Employed
Physicians 19 38 100%
Total Salaries $5,400,658 $19,147,508 255%
Per Physician $284,245 $503,881 77%
Patient Visits 88,502 171,859 94%
But – given how Broward sits on the western edge of the Devil's Triangle – the tax-funded District's numbers become even more bizarre the closer you look.
For example, during the five years between 2003 and 2009 the North Broward Hospital District lost an average of:
($424,754) per doctor employed by the District
($96) per patient visit to a District doctor
That said, it gets even better.
And/or worse.
Like in the current fiscal year (2010), the District expects to lose:
($456,385) per doctor employed by the District.
($103) per patient visit to a District doctor.
And finally...
While the Broward Health receives nearly $190 million in tax dollars for indigent health care each year, few uninsured and/or indigent patients are cared for by the District-employed doctors.
Anyhow, to all my fellow tax-paying North Broward Hospital District residents:
Happy National Doctors' Day!
SOURCE: North Broward Hospital District
Department of Financial Management
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