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The Ontario Government Wants to Maintain a Freeze on the $11 Billion it Currently Spends Overall on Doctors
[Tom Closson's commentary from the Toronto Star] The rationale for fee reductions, which particularly affect ophthalmologists, radiologists, cardiologists and nephrologists, is to modernize the payments for the work they do, primarily by addressing how technology has improved their productivity.
An example of this productivity gain is that technology changes for ophthalmologists doing cataract procedures have reduced the procedure time from two hours to 15 minutes — yet ophthalmologists still receive a fee of approximately $400 per procedure.
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