Physician billing highest in Ontario, lowest in Quebec

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Parkinsonism in Ontario: physician utilization.

BACKGROUND Patients with Parkinsonism have a progressive disorder requiring substantial expertise to manage effectively. METHODS Over a six-year period we evaluated physician utilization and related costs for a large, unselected cohort of 15,304 Parkinsonian patients from the general population, comparing them to 30,608 age- and sex-matched controls within a universal health care system in On...

Multispecialty physician networks in Ontario

BACKGROUND Large multispecialty physician group practices, with a central role for primary care practitioners, have been shown to achieve high-quality, low-cost care for patients with chronic disease. We assessed the extent to which informal multispecialty physician networks in Ontario could be identified by using health administrative data to exploit natural linkages among patients, physicians...

Physician allocation system in Quebec inhibits recruitment.

Some evidentiary considerations for physician billing.

In a criminal prosecution for medical billing fraud alleging up-coding and overbilling, the government's evidence may encompass the practice's entire billings and draw inferences from them. In addition, fraud may be demonstrated through statistical analysis comparing a physician's billings relative to other providers of the same specialty. The Federal Rules of Evidence govern the admissibility ...