As the fight over physician pay escalates, Alberta Health Minister Tyler Shandro wants individual physicians to be legally required to publicly disclose their billings. The amendments to the proposed bill would compel doctors to disclose "amounts payable" they receive for publicly funded health services. The move would effectively create a sunshine list for Alberta practitioners, ensuring doctor's names and pay are posted online for the public to see, the same way high-paid public service employees are. He said Albertans should "know the facts" about how well Alberta doctors are compensated compared to their Canadian counterparts. Doctors pay for staff, clinics and equipment out of their fee-for-service billings, costs that are not accounted for in their billings.

Source: CBC News July 28, 2020 16:18 UTC