The province will make their gross fee-for-service payments to physicians public within the next 60 days. The move would effectively create a sunshine list, with doctor's names and payments to be posted online for the public to see, similar to lists already published for high-paid public service employees. Alberta's sunshine list will include the gross payments to doctors but also "items such as the number of patients served," Buick wrote. AMA President Dr. Christine P. Molnar says the sunshine list won't capture the overhead costs doctors have to pay. Doctors pay for staff, clinics, liability insurance and equipment out of their fee-for-service billings, costs that are not accounted for in their billings.

Source: CBC News September 11, 2020 13:00 UTC