Ontario investigating fee\u002Dfor\u002Daccess nurse practitioner walk\u002Din clinic in Ottawa
TORONTO — Ontario is investigating a walk-in clinic in Ottawa that is reportedly charging patients $400 a year for access, Health Minister Sylvia Jones said Wednesday, though the clinic says the fee is legal.
It is illegal to charge a fee for access to doctors or other services covered by the Ontario Health Insurance Plan, but nurse practitioners don’t fall under the same banner since their services are not covered by OHIP. Liberal health critic Adil Shamji said that, even if the letter of the law was not being violated in the Ottawa case, the spirit of comprehensive, universal and accessible health care was.
If a clinic is functioning as primary care, it should be governed and funded as such, Interim Liberal Leader John Fraser said.
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