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Health Minister Adrian Dix announced that, effective October 1, the NDP government will fully ban what is known as extra billing' by doctors. Extra billing is defined as additional fees charged by a physician or a clinic for a publicly-funded health procedure that is medically necessary, or when a patient pays out...
Health Minister Adrian Dix has announced that effective October 1, the NDP government will fully ban what is known as extra billing by doctors.
Extra billing is defined as additional fees charged by a physician or a clinic for a publicly funded health care procedure that is medically necessary, or when a patient pays out of their own pocket for such a procedure in a private facility.
Dix said that when the federal government audited three private clinics last year, it estimated that extra billing in B.C. amounted to $15.9 million.
But as Steve Burgess has noted, there are plenty of other previously free things that we now how to pay for.