New Brunswick’s three highest-paid doctors each received nearly $2 million during the last fiscal year.
The province has released its unaudited list of payments made to medical practitioners in 2022.23
Miramichi diagnostic radiologist Dr. Stewart MacMillan topped the list again. He was paid between $1.95 million and $1.99 million.
MacMillan was also among the top doctors during the previous two fiscal years. He billed between $1.95 and $1.99 million in 2021-22 and between $1.65 million and $1.69 million in 2020-21.
Dieppe ophthalmologist Dr. Julien Saad was next on the list, billing between $1.9 million and $1.94 million during the most recent fiscal year.
Saad was also among the top doctors in the 2021-22 fiscal year when he was paid between $1.95 million and $1.99 million.
Rounding out the top three was Moncton diagnostic radiologist Dr. Martin Finnegan, who received between $1.8 million and $1.84 million.
In total, 48 of the 1,816 physicians included in the most recent list — around 2.6 per cent — billed for at least $1 million.
The overwhelming majority, around 1,370 physicians, were paid less than $500,000 in the 2022-23 fiscal year.
As the New Brunswick Medical Society has pointed out in the past, the payments do not represent a physician’s personal income.
Most physicians are responsible for operating costs such as office rent, staff salaries and benefits, medical equipment, and insurance.
The society said they also face some of the highest income tax rates in the country, and early-career physicians often start out with significant student debt from years of training.
You can see the full list of payments online.
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