The ancillary costs charged otherwise?

Catherine Montambeault

Sunday, 21 January 2018 19:27

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Sunday, 21 January 2018 20:23

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Medical clinics would have increased the administrative fee that they charge their patients to compensate for the abolition of incidental fees, deplores a community-based organization.

When the ancillary fees were abolished in January 2017, the Clinique communautaire Pointe-Saint-Charles has launched a surveillance registry online so that the patients can complain of any billing practice that would be contrary to the new regulation.

Complaints

Since, 90 complaints have been registered. Several patients revealed they had to pay more for their doctors fill out forms or get a copy of their medical record.

Although the fresh accessories seem to have disappeared, the organization finds, therefore, ” shifting the billing “.

“There are also several patients who have told us they have had to pay exorbitant amounts – up to $ 500 for preventive examinations for the eyes, so that they don’t even know if it was really needed,” says the community organizer Stéphane Defoy.

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Gaétan Barrette, minister of Health

For his part, the minister of Health Gaétan Barrette has indicated that the administrative costs are not their responsibility.

It ” invites the whole of the population that is potentially in the face of illegal fees in the report to the College of physicians and to the Régie de l’assurance maladie du Québec “.

► For the registry of monitoring of the incidental costs, you can consult the ccpsc.qc.ca/en/register.