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There are 179 BC doctors billing the taxpayer-funded health care system between $1 and $2 million, according to the latest Medical Services Commission “Blue Book” of fee for service payments to about 10,000 doctors.

That is slightly more than the previous year as you can see from the table below.

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Nine doctors earned gross payments between $2 million and $3 million and six earned over $3 million.

(Readers with a laser focus will notice that Blue Book counts don’t match the current numbers I’ve reported here. That’s because of differences in pay dates and accounting methods and I always request the most up to date information from the ministry of health. As well, an earlier version of this article had a different figure for those in the over $3 million category; the government has since revised that figure to six doctors instead of eight.)

As usual, ophthalmologists are generally the highest billers. Many eye specialists and other surgeons also do surgery in private clinics. But only billings in the public system are shown in the Blue Book.