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In 2005 and 2006, the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care drastically overhauled their process for auditing physicians’ OHIP billing. The revised process, called the Payment Integrity program, is still in effect and is intended to ensure that physicians bill OHIP properly for their services.
Recently I’ve been following the story of Dr. Alfred Nkut, a Sudbury area family physician currently on trial for defrauding the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care of an alleged $800,000 in OHIP over-billings. Despite billing OHIP claims as early …
Working with a company like JCL Medical for outsourcing OHIP claims processing does have a cost, but is it a cost in the usual sense? Read up on the unexpected benefits our clients receive.
A picture is worth a thousand words in all facets of life. But the value of images in the field of medicine is immeasurable. Until very recently, there hasn’t been a satisfactory way of organizing, annotating, saving, and sharing medical images across the profession.
Our physicians frequently have questions about how OHIP’s cut-off for claims submission works, and this blog post addresses that issue. Back in the day of paper claims and diskette submissions, OHIP needed several days to run each physician’s diskette through …