The province’s privacy commission has ordered the health ministry to release the names of doctors along with their OHIP billings, in the interests of transparency and accountability. Higgins has ordered the health ministry to release the information to the Star by July 8. Doctors are worried that if their billings are publicly released, Ontarians will falsely equate billings to actual income. The Star is also seeking access to health ministry data, showing what fee codes individual physicians have used when receiving fee-for-service payments. The decision comes two years after the Star began requesting physician-identified billings from the health ministry, and brings the province more in line with other jurisdictions that are opting to disclose public funds paid to doctors.

Source: thestar June 03, 2016 09:01 UTC