It includes doctors who are on salary, but the payments for fee-for-service doctors have always been kept secret. Billings originally considered personal informationThe government initially refused to release the billings, citing personal privacy concerns. The doctors took the province to court to fight the release of information, in a case that dragged on for years. It's a remarkable change from 2016, when doctors pushed the province not to release their information. Through access-to-information legislation, the CBC obtained 282 pages of letters, almost all from doctors who objected to having their billing information released.

Source: CBC News June 16, 2020 19:07 UTC