They are among 30,167 physicians whose names, medical specialties and OHIP payments are contained in the searchable database, which can be found on thestar.com. Fee-for-service payments are not the same as take-home pay, because doctors pay for their own overhead expenses — staff salaries, offices, equipment and supplies — out of their OHIP billings. The database lists payments that doctors can claim for more than 7,000 publicly insured services contained in the OHIP schedule of benefits. Under a reinterpretation of Ontario’s Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, the commission found that doctors’ billings are business information. Click here to search The Star’s database of Ontario doctors’ billings

Source: thestar November 28, 2019 10:00 UTC