Ontario's health minister says the Ontario government and Ministry of Health will shut down any clinic charging for services covered by OHIP, as a clinic in Ottawa's south end is under scrutiny for charging a $400 membership fee to access a nurse practitioner.
CTV News Ottawa first reported last week that the South Keys Health Center is charging clients a membership fee for access to a nurse practitioner, not a doctor. The health minister says the ministry is now investigating the clinic, although the clinic says the fee is legal.
"Nurse practitioners are the ones seeing you. They can do prescriptions, they can do a lot of health information, they can send you to a specialist." "I've made it very clear, OHIP funded services must be covered by OHIP, cannot be charged. We opened an investigation and started asking questions last Thursday when we heard about this and we will shutdown that practice if it is occurring."
"Even one person is too many, but a recent study shows more than 2.2 million people do not have a family doctor. Addressing Ontario's doctor shortage is one of the pillars of our Prescription for Ontario: Doctors' 5-Point Plan for Better Health Care." On Tuesday, CTV News Ottawa reported two Ottawa doctors discovered their bios on the South Keys Health Center website, despite never working there or having any contact with the walk-in clinic. Dr. Sonam Maghera of the Ottawa Orthopaedic Centre on Woodroffe Avenue said she was alerted to the posting by calls from patients asking if she had changed her practice location.
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