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Dr. Foluso Ayomitunde Olusegun Ola has also been ordered to pay the maximum fine of $35,000—despite it being ‘far less’ than the amount that was overbilled.

Why are they really trying to push this thing so far?

Tracy Kitch’s conviction in September marked the second time she had been convicted of illegally billing personal expenses to the Halifax-based IWK Health Centre, Atlantic Canada’s largest children’s hospital.

The ruling found that while Dr. Ma technically failed to comply with specific OHIP billing rules, it was unreasonable to ignore the extraordinary circumstances of the COVID-19 public health crisis.

Brenda Locke says the shortage of family doctors has hit Surrey especially hard and it is moving to provide solutions to open the clinics by 2026.

The tentative deal would scrap performance-related penalties and a colour-coded system to assess patients’ vulnerability, and would provide an additional $435 million in the compensation package for family doctors.

A spokesperson with the college said it could not comment on the matter.

The study, published in JAMA Network Open, suggests that pantoprazole prophylaxis in invasively ventilated patients offers both clinical benefits and economic value for the healthcare system.