Ontario Set To Slash Health Services To Save $83 Million
TORONTO — Ineffective fertility tests, repetitive pre-operative
assessments and medically unnecessary ear-wax removal procedures are
among the services that will be scrapped in Ontario this fall in an effort to cut health-care costs, moves the government estimates will save $83 million a year.
assessments and medically unnecessary ear-wax removal procedures are
among the services that will be scrapped in Ontario this fall in an effort to cut health-care costs, moves the government estimates will save $83 million a year.
The
changes announced Thursday stem from the first phase of recommendations
by a group that looked into restricting inappropriate or overused
physician services.
The committee, made up of members from the government and the Ontario Medical Association (OMA),
was created following an arbitration decision that resulted in a new
physician contract. It was tasked with recommending changes that could
result in $460 million in savings.