Welcome to our list of the highest paid doctors in India in 2017. This Asian country is a popular healthcare tourist destination. Thousands of private and public clinics offer affordable health care provided by experts, who were educated in some of the worlds’ most famous medical schools. Still, finding the information about doctor salaries in India was very hard. This type of information is usually classified and we could only find unreliable estimates.
We also faced many different challenges, while searching for sources. Most lists we could find online didn’t offer any data about the doctors’ earnings or net worth. So, the logical step was to start from Forbes’s list of India’s 100 Richest People, and see whether we can find any doctors there. Luckily, we have found more than a few doctors, who now run big medical and pharmaceuticals companies, and they went straight to the top of our list of the highest paid doctors in India in 2017.
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Then our search hit the dead end and stayed there for some time. After hours of browsing the internet, we have found an interesting topic on Quora about famous Indian doctors. Since the most famous doctors (like doctor Phil) usually have the highest net worth, we have decided to use this information for our list. Unfortunately, the thread wasn’t too popular, and there were only two doctors there.
Still, Quora turned out to be a very valuable source. We visited the thread about the highest paying post-graduate medical specialties in India. There, most medical practitioners who have discussed the topic agreed that radiology is by far the best paid post-graduate specialty, so we decided to list at least several radiologists. We have found them on the Credi Health website. We filtered the list to find the most experienced ones, since the website doesn’t offer any criteria that deals with doctors’ earnings. Then we have singled out the two most experienced professionals, both of whom are the directors of respected radiology institutions. If you would like to find more information about the lucrative medical specialties, check out the Insider Monkey’s list of the Highest Paying Jobs for Doctors.
After listing seven doctors our search has hit another dead end. Then out of nowhere we have found the Times of India article that lists five best doctors in the country. Since the article is a little bit older, we needed to check whether each one of these doctors still practices medicine. The article also gives some price estimates so we used them to rank these doctors on our list.
After listing twelve doctors there were two more to go. Then we found an interesting article on the Myan Care website that shares the story about the five most famous Indian doctors of all times. Apart from Dr. Dwarkanath Kotnis, the famous doctor from Sino-Japanese war, who treated wounded civilians and Chinese soldiers and Dr. B. C. Roy, the founder of IMA and the modern Indian medicine, there were also three doctors who still run their practices and earn millions of dollars on an annual basis. That is how we have finally finished our quest for finding the information about the highest paid doctors in India in 2017.
14. Dr. M. G. Bhat
Listed in India Times article;
As one of the most popular surgeons in Bangalore, Dr. M. G Bhat was earning Rs 50,000 per operation in 2006, according to India Times. His patients were waiting at least 20 days to be operated by one of the most respected general surgeons and laparoscopy experts. Dr. Bhat runs his surgery clinic in the luxury part of Bangalore.
13. Dr. Ashok Rajgopal
Listed in India Times article;
Dr. Ashok Rajgopal is one of the leading orthopedic surgeons in Delhi. According to India Times in 2006 he has been working at the Fortis Hospital and earning from Rs. 10,000 to Rs. 12,000 per operation. Apart from Delhi, he also travels to other countries to give surgeries and share his expertise. He has been to France, China, Australia, etc. During the eighties, he was one of the pioneers of arthroscopy, and he also treated two presidents of India, Kocheril Raman Narayanan, and A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.
12. Dr. Sudhansu Bhattacharyya
Listed in India Times article;
According to India Times, Dr. Sudhansu Bhattacharyya was earning at least Rs 3 lakh per operation. He is one of the most popular cardiac surgeons in the country. His clinic in South Mumbai was regularly visited by the city celebrities, including P.C. Alexander, the Governor of Maharashtra, and Rakesh Rohan, a famous movie producer. On some days he conducts six cardiac operations and the waiting room in the clinic is always full. During the nineties, Bhattacharyya was the highest tax-paying doctor in India.
11. Dr. S Natarajan
Listed in India Times article;
As one of the leading eye-surgeons in India and the world, Dr. S Natrajan is one of the highest paid doctors in the country. According to India Times, his earnings in 2006 were around Rs 45 lakh per month. That is a huge contrast comparing to a Rs 4,200 monthly salary, S Natrajan was earning while working at a Bombay Hospital. Today he runs his eye-hospital and treats many foreigners, celebrities, and famous politicians.
10. Dr. Rakesh Kumar Mathur
Listed on the Credi Health platform;
The Credit website lists Rakesh Kumar Mathur as the most experienced radiologist in India. He works in the Max Super Specialty Hospital and as a Chairman of the Radiology Institute in Delhi. Since radiologists are the best paid medical practitioners in India, Dr. Mathur easily found the place on our list with 34 years of experience in Radiodiagnosis and the fellowship in MRI.
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9. Dr. Harsh Mahajan
Listed on the Credi Health platform;
As a pioneer of radiology and imaging technology, Harsh Mahajan is one of the most respected experts in this field. We added him to our list of the highest paid doctors in India in 2017 as one of the most popular radiologists in India. Harsh Mahajan runs his radiology clinic and works as an honorary radiologist of Narendra Modi, the president of India. He is also the president of several radiologist organizations and research centers.
8. Dr. Sreehari
Listed on the Quora thread;
Dr. Sreehari is a famous anesthesiologist who promotes the new type of anesthetic based on the hypnotherapy. He advocates that this type of aesthetics can’t cause complications and is completely safe for patients with various preconditions. Dr. Seerhari, one of the highest paid doctors in India in 2017, thinks that this new form of anesthesia can be used for various surgical treatments from dental surgeries to tumor localizations and removals. Although his ideas still haven’t been widely acclaimed, Dr. Seerhari is one of the highest paid anesthesiologists in India.
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7. Dr. Naresh Trehan
Listed on the Quora thread and in India Times article;
Trehan often says for himself that he is a highest tax paying doctor in India. Although we haven’t checked these claims, it is obvious that he is among the best-paid doctors in the country. He performs more than 300 surgeries every month at the Escorts Heart Institute and Research Center in the Indian capital, where he works as an Executive Director and a cardiac surgeon.
6. Dr. Balamurali Ambati
Listed in the article on Myan Care website;
Number 6 on our list of highest paid doctors in India in 2017 is Dr. Balamurali Ambati, a gifted young ophthalmologist, who is also known as the youngest doctor in the world since he finished medical school in the United States when he was only 17. Ambati lives in both India and the United States, where he works as a professor of Ophthalmology and as the Head of Cornel Research at the University of Utah.
5. Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty
Listed in the article on Myan Care website;
The main mission of Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty is to provide affordable healthcare services to the masses. That is the reason why he has opened a special type of health care center in Bangalore in 2001. His hospital charges their services to wealthier customers and then uses the surplus money to fund the treatments for the poor. It is famous for its expert surgery treatments, and currently, it is the hospital that conducts the highest number of cardiac surgeries in India.
4. Dr. Deepak Chopra
Listed on the article on Myan Care website;
Dr. Deepak Chopra is on the third spot on our list of highest paid doctors in India in 2017. He is an endocrinologist, who is much more famous for his alternative medicine teaching. As a New Age celebrity, Deepak Chopra’s teaching became very popular in the United States and across the world. He founded the Maharishi Ayurveda Health Center and spread the ideas about the mind’s influence on aging. Many respected medicine scholars criticize Chopra’s ideas and teachings, but he is one of the richest and the highest earning doctors from India.
3. Dr. Shamsheer Vayalil
Ranking on Forbes list of India’s 100 Richest People: #98;
Many great Indian doctors have moved to UAE to start their business, and Shamsheer Vayalil is one of them. His company runs a large network of hospitals in India and the Middle East. Before he moved to the United Arab Emirates, he studied medicine and specialized in radiology in the southern province of Kerala. Vayalil’s current net worth is $1.27 billion.
2. Dr. Azad Moopen
Ranking on Forbes list of India’s 100 Richest People: #97;
As the richest Indian physicist, Dr. Azad Moopen is a big philanthropist, who develops affordable healthcare institutions across South and Southeast Asia. According to Forbes, his current net worth is $1.28 billion, and he takes the 97th place on their list of richest people in India. As a well-known philanthropist, Moopen has received many awards from the Indian Government and various non-profit organizations.
1. Dr. B.R. Shetty
Ranking on Forbes list of India’s 100 Richest People: #47;
Dr. B.R. Shetty is the definite winner of our list of the highest paid doctors in India in 2017. He runs and manages an Abu Dhabi based healthcare and pharmaceutical companies called NMC Healthcare and UAE Exchange. He moved to the United Arab Emirates during the seventies after getting the pharmaceutical education in India. His companies are also well-known on the Indian subcontinent and in many other Asian countries. Last year B.R. Shetty’s net worth was $2.5 billion and he takes the 47th place on the Forbes’s India’s 100 Richest People list.
