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Did you watch the show? That's all explained and is not typical. House has a very specialized practice dealing in absurd rare cases that no one can figure out. There was even an entire season arc about money and profits.
Wasn’t there also a multi season arc where they made House teach a class and take on interns so that they had other “reasons” to keep his department
How does employing House make the hospital money?
It doesn't directly, his department is known to be a money pit. But having him at their hospital is kinda a point of prestige for the hospital; kinda like reputation padding. In a way, you can look at the budget for his department as a marketing expense for the hospital.
They get to claim they have a world famous diagnostician on staff who can figure out what's wrong with the most hopeless causes.
It'd be kinda like having a really prestigious professor at your university.
It's a teaching hospital, so they don't (entirely) rely on the regular patient-funded system common in the USA.
House's reputation can totally help with funding.