OVERHAUL NEEDED: Why the Ministry of Health needs to modernize its controls of physician billings

OHIP billing system is antiquated and needs to be updated, as the monitoring costs were developed in the 1980s, writes Peter Watson. A recent report by the Ontario Auditor General revealed new information involving physician billings. However, some of the issues identified as problems were highlighted in a previous auditor’s report nearly 10 years ago. […]