But some private doctors say that in Harare, the number is at least 200.
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The government last year required all private doctors to register TB patients, but few are complying.
Through the agency, she says, teenagers can be directed to public health centers and private doctors in their area.
Private doctors complained of a breakdown in the supply of the JE vaccine, the monopoly of a local trading company.
Fessler offers other examples of VSP's good deeds: VSP offers its eye-care services to its subscribers through 25, 000 private doctors, one-third of whom practice in medically underserved communities.
Dr Narendra Gupta, of the health charity, Prayas, a local partner of Oxfam, is one of many activists convinced that some private doctors are engaging in blatant malpractice.
"For the uptake to be huge, we need to be able to get the word out to private sector doctors and to patients that these are the tests they should be using and that we are discounting them, " Dr. Pai said.
After several decades of private insurance, doctors have come to rationalize a little fudging of diagnoses if that helps the patient with his insurance.
All were what you would call bread-and-butter physicians: busy, full-time, private-practice doctors who work from seven in the morning to seven at night and sometimes later, their waiting rooms teeming and their desks stacked with medical charts to review.
The Ecole's architectural commissions illustrated this link: private townhouses for doctors, a coal merchant and a brewer, for example, as well as the construction or (re)decoration of a printing works, grain store, furrier's shop, department stores and, significantly, a church and three banks.
Opening most of the NHS in England to private firms could alienate doctors and render the reforms "a complete waste of time", a GP who helped draft the plans has warned.
Opponents also include doctors worried about private firms muscling into hospital care, and unions who are against labour-market reforms.
It is responsible for ensuring all doctors - GPs, hospital doctors, those working in the NHS and private sectors - are properly qualified and preventing any 'rogue' doctors from treating patients.
He spares no expense on his bikes, his coaches, his teammates, his doctors and even a private jet that saves wear and tear.
In November, about 20, 000 doctors in government and private hospitals in Bihar went on strike in protest at the killing of a local surgeon.
And then there is the new generation of salaried staff physicians who want no part of the 80 hour work weeks that used to be standard fare when doctors ran their own private practices.
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Private insurance policies vary, and some doctors may perform the test as part of a physical examination.
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Some public hospital doctors are allowed to treat private patients in the hospital.
Obamacare-required cuts to physician fees so severe that by 2030, Medicare will be paying doctors 60 percent less than private health insurance plans.
At a time when baby boomers are going to burst the britches on Medicare, consider that Medicare only pays doctors 81% of what private insurance does.
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Doctors added Labour's hazy private plans to their familiar grievances over workload, bureaucratic burdens, and the calumnies heaped on them by politicians and the press.
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But ObamaCare is supposed to reduce costs, in part by putting about half of the newly insured in Medicaid, which pays doctors about 50 percent of what private insurance would pay.
Medicaid pays hospitals and doctors less than 60 percent of what private insurers pay.
Adding more people would only compel hospitals, doctors and others to increase charges to private insurers and employers to make up the difference, they warned.
"It puts doctors in the uncomfortable position of playing private eye, " said Dr. Lance Longo, medical director of Addiction Psychiatry at Aurora Behavioral Health Services in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
The initially radical bill, which would give family doctors more power to commission services and allow private provision to expand, enraged health workers.
The administration and congressional Democrats spent much time earlier this year cultivating alliances with drug makers, doctors, hospitals and trying to win over private insurers.
And this is despite the fact that Medicare has substantially greater market power than the fragmented private insurers do, to dictate prices to hospitals and doctors.
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Paul Danao, head of business development for American Imaging Management, part of insurer WellPoint, says self-referring doctors counter the price cuts by Medicare and private payers by trying to make it up on volume.
Paul Danao, head of business development for American Imaging Management, part of insurer WellPoint (nyse: WLP - news - people ), says self-referring doctors counter the price cuts by Medicare and private payers by trying to make it up on volume.
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