Ontario doctors face wage cuts, clawbacks in government proposal

Posted by Kendall Harmon

The Ontario government wants to cut hundreds of millions of dollars in payments to its doctors through fee cuts, fee clawbacks and the elimination of funding for some health-care services, medical groups said Sunday amid an escalating conflict over physician compensation in the province....

“They’re basically trying to trash the medical profession, for reasons that don’t make a lot of sense,” said Ray Foley, executive director of the Ontario Association of Radiologists. “We think it’s going to be devastating. It’s not going to cause an erosion of patient care, it’s going to create a chasm in patient care.”

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Posted May 8, 2012 at 5:00 am [Printer Friendly] [Print w/ comments]



1. upnorfjoel wrote:

Recommended reading for the AMA as they sip on their Obamacare Kool-Aid.

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