Ontario’s auditor general says the province is not properly monitoring the billing practices of doctors, noting several cases in which physicians have billed for more than 24 hours in one day or for all 365 days of the year.
Provincial auditor Shelley Spence presented the findings in an annual report, which found that the Ministry of Health system that doctors are using to bill the Ontario Health Insurance Plan for services provided to patients has limited functionality for flagging high-risk submissions.
She outlined the problems she identified in an Oversight of Physician Billing audit, which was one of six performance audits published in the comprehensive report on Dec. 2….