The Ontario Medical Association is seeking to overturn a landmark decision by the province’s privacy commissioner to release the names of top-billing doctors. A.B.,” also argues that he was never informed about the case by the privacy commissioner even though he is among the top billers. The physician whose total annual OHIP payments ranked at number 100 received more than $1.4 million. The three parties filed applications this week with the province’s divisional court to quash the ruling made June 1 by the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario. Past privacy commissioner Ann Cavoukian has described Higgins’ decision as “highly significant” because it departs from previous commission orders, which deemed physician-identified billings to be personal information.

Source: thestar June 30, 2016 09:56 UTC