Four GPs receive €600k each in €480m HSE payout

Four family doctor practices each received €600,000 in payments from the HSE in 2013, including one practice that received over €800,000.

According to figures released by the HSE in response to a Freedom of Information request, Dublin GP Austin O’Carroll received the highest amount at €827,658 in 2013.

Another Dublin doctor, Catherine Coleman, was paid the second-highest amount of €682,180 in practice supports and for seeing medical and GP patients.