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SIXTEEN General Practitioners in Clare were among the 600 nationally that received more than €240,000 through the Primary Care Reim- bursement Service (PCRS).
The fees paid by the HSE include medical card fees and separate fund- ing provided for practice support de- velopment.
Practice support usually includes a practice secretary or practice nurse.
As many as six Clare GPs received more than €240,000 in medical card Koro DLO) se
There were no doctors in Clare among the 18 nationally that received more than half a million euro under the scheme.
These figures are only representa- tive of the fees received under the public health schemes and do not include, for example, the earnings receiving by GPs through their pri- vate/retail concerns.
Dentists in Clare were also among the top earners in the country under the Government scheme, although their payments did not reach that of their GP colleagues.
Just two dentists in Clare received more than €100,000 under PCRS.
The Primary Care Reimbursement Service makes payments to primary care contractors (general practition- ers, pharmacists, dentists and op- tometrists/ophthalmologists) | who have contracts with the Health Serv- ice Executive to provide services to medical cardholders.
In addition, the Primary Care Re-
imbursement Service also reimburs- es the primary care contractors for services provided to other eligible re- cipients under a variety of commun1- ty drug schemes including the Drugs Payment Scheme, the Long Term IIIness Scheme, the Dental Treat- ment Services Scheme, the Primary Childhood Immunisation Scheme, the High Tech Drugs Scheme, the Methadone Treatment Scheme and the Community Ophthalmic Serv- ices Scheme.
Publishing the 2006 PCRS Over- view, the HSE confirmed that a total of €2.07bn had been paid in 2006, representing an increase of €194m new Olo
Over 160,000 more people were entitled to benefits under the vari- ous schemes in 2006 compared with PAU Oey
There are now over 2.91 million people registered as eligible for ben- efit under the GMS (Medical Card) Scheme, the Drugs Payment Scheme, the Long Term [lIness Scheme, the Dental Treatment Services Scheme, the Community Ophthalmic Serv- ices Schemes and GP Visit Cards in paul eres
This compares with 2.74 million eligible in 2005.