MSP payment · 2018
British Columbia Doctors' MSP Payments 2018
Salaries paid in the fiscal year ending in 2018, published in 2018 (the list often called the Doctors' MSP Payments). 11,448 people. Fiscal years ending March 31 (2025 is April 2024 to March 2025). Gross payments, before the practice costs practitioners pay from them: not salaries.
People on the list
11,448
+2.6% vs 2017
Median payment
$204,254
−3.2% vs 2017
Total payments
$3.0B
Employers
1
Top 100 highest paid in 2018
| # | Name | Gross payments | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leah Arin Wittenberg | $3,360,966 | −$13,359 (−0.4%) |
| 2 | David Andrew Albiani | $3,358,269 | +$109,540 (+3.4%) |
| 3 | Dharminder Singh Dhanda | $3,167,241 | −$450,657 (−12.5%) |
| 4 | Steve Daniel Levasseur | $3,027,399 | +$559,923 (+22.7%) |
| 5 | Andrew William Kirker | $2,988,281 | −$18,642 (−0.6%) |
| 6 | Hugh MacPherson Parsons | $2,813,199 | −$249,495 (−8.1%) |
| 7 | Lica Chui | $2,711,783 | +$216,819 (+8.7%) |
| 8 | Teddi Lynn Orenstein | $2,701,848 | +$1,326,438 (+96.4%) |
| 9 | Simon Rock Lam | $2,686,320 | −$84,957 (−3.1%) |
| 10 | Derek Vivek Godinho | $2,601,410 | +$46,077 (+1.8%) |
| 11 | Patrick Eugene Ma | $2,595,478 | +$97,847 (+3.9%) |
| 12 | Peter Mark Hopp | $2,562,858 | +$223,669 (+9.6%) |
| 13 | Gabriel Chu | $2,515,209 | +$191,064 (+8.2%) |
| 14 | Eduardo Vitor Navajas | $2,443,959 | +$317,029 (+14.9%) |
| 15 | Michael Thomas Walter Butler | $2,370,775 | +$307,793 (+14.9%) |
| 16 | Hugo F. S. Sutton | $2,318,276 | +$177,923 (+8.3%) |
| 17 | Hussein Hollands | $2,237,905 | +$284,277 (+14.6%) |
| 18 | Malvinder Singh Hoonjan | $2,172,504 | +$487,280 (+28.9%) |
| 19 | Andrew Brian Merkur | $2,157,852 | −$47,700 (−2.2%) |
| 20 | Saul Hillel Isserow | $2,090,675 | +$216,800 (+11.6%) |
| 21 | Ravinder Dennis Bhui | $2,075,600 | +$126,615 (+6.5%) |
| 22 | Daniel Currie Warder | $2,063,420 | +$519,893 (+33.7%) |
| 23 | Tirath Gosal-Sadhra | $2,057,547 | +$18,092 (+0.9%) |
| 24 | Kurt Taro Tsuyuki | $1,977,773 | +$239,589 (+13.8%) |
| 25 | Zakaria Tadrous | $1,908,290 | +$92,772 (+5.1%) |
| 26 | David Alan Heinrichs | $1,880,487 | −$187,641 (−9.1%) |
| 27 | Sajal Jain | $1,822,854 | −$443,458 (−19.6%) |
| 28 | Francis Chi Hung Law | $1,780,103 | −$1,455 (−0.1%) |
| 29 | Elizabeth Joan Hay | $1,768,258 | +$74,382 (+4.4%) |
| 30 | Jahangir Hajimohammed Charania | $1,767,537 | +$143,278 (+8.8%) |
| 31 | Wouter De Bruin | $1,749,862 | +$3,293 (+0.2%) |
| 32 | Murray John Erasmus | $1,728,764 | −$32,869 (−1.9%) |
| 33 | Kevin Michael Ramsey | $1,724,129 | −$83,177 (−4.6%) |
| 34 | Pierre Faber | $1,674,826 | +$97,380 (+6.2%) |
| 35 | Yau Woon Edward Yu | $1,670,960 | −$110,417 (−6.2%) |
| 36 | James Martin McCarthy | $1,660,529 | −$49,442 (−2.9%) |
| 37 | Peter Zakrzewski | $1,631,412 | +$141,687 (+9.5%) |
| 38 | Cory Lorn Ramstead | $1,608,039 | +$127,681 (+8.6%) |
| 39 | Barend Nathan Zack | $1,587,733 | +$132,682 (+9.1%) |
| 40 | David Rex Socrates Neima | $1,570,973 | −$159,625 (−9.2%) |
| 41 | Nader Hassan Elmayergi | $1,566,878 | +$338,789 (+27.6%) |
| 42 | Gregory M. Polyakov | $1,564,819 | −$123,300 (−7.3%) |
| 43 | Aditya Seth | $1,534,287 | +$57,375 (+3.9%) |
| 44 | Manjeet Mann | $1,530,914 | +$59,662 (+4.1%) |
| 45 | Tung Minh Diep | $1,525,332 | +$183,328 (+13.7%) |
| 46 | Jeffrey Alan Blicker | $1,524,688 | +$117,209 (+8.3%) |
| 47 | Bryce John Cowan | $1,522,632 | −$22,376 (−1.4%) |
| 48 | Naser Sayeh | $1,485,165 | −$71,157 (−4.6%) |
| 49 | Victor De Sousa Pegado | $1,482,193 | +$140,561 (+10.5%) |
| 50 | Andrew Han Yu | $1,469,528 | −$49,335 (−3.2%) |
| 51 | Andrew Dennis Lukaris | $1,458,505 | +$82,606 (+6.0%) |
| 52 | Leo Ka Ho Mok | $1,434,404 | new |
| 53 | Peter Jelfimow | $1,418,327 | +$66,385 (+4.9%) |
| 54 | Paul Douglas Denton | $1,404,713 | +$345,839 (+32.7%) |
| 55 | Roberto L. Piemontesi | $1,396,317 | +$294,232 (+26.7%) |
| 56 | Charalambos Andreou | $1,389,059 | +$41,008 (+3.0%) |
| 57 | Winston Tsui | $1,380,588 | +$54,994 (+4.1%) |
| 58 | Norman Hau Hwang | $1,380,496 | +$266,426 (+23.9%) |
| 59 | Brian Alan Nelson | $1,366,015 | +$241,002 (+21.4%) |
| 60 | A. Lambert Maberley | $1,350,031 | −$161,013 (−10.7%) |
| 61 | Christopher Sandor Pollock | $1,346,521 | +$22,118 (+1.7%) |
| 62 | Stanley Glenn Shortt | $1,346,087 | −$155,378 (−10.3%) |
| 63 | Michael Joseph Boyd | $1,342,533 | +$38,868 (+3.0%) |
| 64 | Albert Wai Wah Chan | $1,333,703 | +$73,377 (+5.8%) |
| 65 | Richard Chi-Wing Chan | $1,328,870 | −$138,019 (−9.4%) |
| 66 | Darren Behn | $1,326,704 | −$43,137 (−3.1%) |
| 67 | Olivia Mayin Dam | $1,320,944 | +$179,789 (+15.8%) |
| 68 | Michael Berman | $1,314,526 | +$701 (+0.1%) |
| 69 | Roger Karl Philipp | $1,311,646 | +$162,634 (+14.2%) |
| 70 | James Alexander Loh | $1,310,823 | +$384,101 (+41.4%) |
| 71 | Mohammad Bilal Iqbal | $1,287,682 | new |
| 72 | William H. Johnston | $1,285,632 | +$68,115 (+5.6%) |
| 73 | Rajesh Rai Mainra | $1,283,064 | +$86,519 (+7.2%) |
| 74 | William H. Ross | $1,277,685 | −$47,988 (−3.6%) |
| 75 | Avash Jeet Singh | $1,269,335 | +$238,711 (+23.2%) |
| 76 | Christopher Goddard | $1,267,465 | −$233,821 (−15.6%) |
| 77 | John Arthur Warner | $1,266,394 | −$600 (−0.0%) |
| 78 | Ronald George Cridland | $1,265,310 | +$4,587 (+0.4%) |
| 79 | Kei Kwong Stanley Tung | $1,242,627 | +$195,087 (+18.6%) |
| 80 | Carolyn Kim Anderson | $1,238,495 | −$229,047 (−15.6%) |
| 81 | Simon Paul Holland | $1,227,111 | +$37,285 (+3.1%) |
| 82 | Brett Gregory Heilbron | $1,226,001 | −$94,278 (−7.1%) |
| 83 | Navraj Singh Heran | $1,224,517 | −$126,262 (−9.3%) |
| 84 | Gary Bernard Bloomberg | $1,223,162 | +$65,251 (+5.6%) |
| 85 | Thomas A. Demco | $1,222,645 | −$71,846 (−5.6%) |
| 86 | Donald W. Anderson | $1,205,244 | −$1,050 (−0.1%) |
| 87 | Priya Gupta | $1,198,748 | −$36,673 (−3.0%) |
| 88 | David A. L. Maberley | $1,197,830 | −$21,492 (−1.8%) |
| 89 | John Paul Lemaitre | $1,197,047 | +$118,546 (+11.0%) |
| 90 | Abuobeida Abdelaal Hamour | $1,193,362 | +$9,694 (+0.8%) |
| 91 | Razi Azhar Khan | $1,189,918 | +$1,775 (+0.1%) |
| 92 | Farzin Forooghian | $1,186,254 | +$98,085 (+9.0%) |
| 93 | David Alexander Wood | $1,185,043 | −$106,841 (−8.3%) |
| 94 | Keyvan Hadad | $1,182,390 | +$76,287 (+6.9%) |
| 95 | Iman Hemmati | $1,180,742 | +$166,554 (+16.4%) |
| 96 | Aron Tischler | $1,179,238 | −$38,896 (−3.2%) |
| 97 | Tharwat Abd Elwhab Fera | $1,169,083 | +$102,178 (+9.6%) |
| 98 | Randy Alan Walker | $1,168,015 | −$20,002 (−1.7%) |
| 99 | George. Vrabec | $1,150,708 | new |
| 100 | Harjinder Singh Dhaliwal | $1,146,337 | +$108,596 (+10.5%) |
Questions and answers
How many people were on the 2018 Doctors' MSP Payments?
11,448 people paid $25,000 or more in 2018, +2.6% on 2017 (11,157 people).
Who was the highest paid on the 2018 list?
Leah Arin Wittenberg, at Medical Services Plan, with a salary of $3,360,966.
What was the median payment on the 2018 list?
$204,254, −3.2% on 2017. It is the median of people paid $25,000 or more, not of every public employee.
When was the 2018 Doctors' MSP Payments released?
In 2018. Each list covers the salaries paid in one year and is published after it ends.
What is “gross payments”?
Gross payments for insured services in the fiscal year, as the Medical Services Commission publishes them, before the practice costs (staff, rent, equipment) practitioners pay from them: not a salary or take-home pay. How the lists work
Why is someone not on the list?
Only people paid $25,000 or more in the year are listed, for insured services MSP paid for. Someone paid less that year, or working elsewhere, does not appear.