Quick Answer. If blood appears black or dark red, it means the blood has a low oxygen level, notes Dr. Anne Marie Helmenstine for About.com. Bleeding blood of this color by itself is not a cause for alarm since all blood in the veins has relatively low oxygen. Continue Reading.
A physician with billings of about $250,000 would have a net income of about $200,000 and take home $127,100 after taxes. That same physician, incorporated, would have roughly the same take-home but be able to defer taxes on $60,000. What you hear, especially during contract negotiation time, is that physicians have overhead costs ranging from 40-60 per cent, and pay 40 per cent income taxes.
The national average gross clinical payment per physician last year was about $307,000. The provincial pay ranged from the highest in Alberta at $349,655 per doctor and in Ontario at $340,020.What it comes down to is what works best for them.â The average per-service payment was $54, up by 5.3 per cent from last year. Family doctors billed an average of $40, a 3.6-per-cent increase, while specialists billed $74, a 6.8-per-cent increase per service.