Ontario’s Ministry of Health has not said how many physicians got letters flagging them as having billing patterns ‘higher than those typically observed.’
Alberta’s government announced in January its plans for a program in which physicians would help triage patients following Prashant Sreekumar’s high-profile death at Edmonton’s Grey Nuns Community Hospital.
Every time I think that I can reach some sort of detente, the healthcare bureaucrats in this province will do something so egregiously stupid that we’re back to square one.
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s new budget introduces a slew of tax measures for small businesses, but doctors’ groups are calling it a ‘missed opportunity.’
The letters flag unusually high billing activity, but acknowledge that ‘billing data alone may not fully capture the circumstances of an individual physician’s practice.’
His most controversial stance was calling on doctors to stop their pressure tactics while the medical federations were in the midst of negotiations with the government over their compensation.
