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In case you are wandering where the money goes. If you need a gall bladder removed or an appendix removed the bill to you might be $10,000-30,000 but the surgeon, for all of their care and time with you, is compensated less than $100.
It’s actually about $600 just for the surgery. It’s about 10 RVUs x $60 per RVU. You add some RVU modifiers to get it to about $1000.
Your point still stands, but it’s still a bit more than $100
Source: I’m a MD
I'm confident a surgeon in America is paid more than 100$ for a surgery. They are paid about 400k a year on average. Do the math yourself.
On the other hand you provided no details as to where the money actually goes. It's not a simple proble, and part of the problem is that our doctors are paid a lot more than in peer nations
I did get my gall bladder removed in July, and I know paid my surgeon a lot more than a 100 bucks, which was just the smaller deductible portion of the bill.
Bullshit. Even Medicare will pay a surgeon about $600 for CPT code 44970 and commercial health plans are higher than that.