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The province now adds insult to injury for Ontario’s doctors.

While doctors in hospital literally risk their lives to fight a killer coronavirus with inadequate protective gear, other doctors holding the fort for all other patients have discovered they won’t get paid this month.

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They may not get paid until June.

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Doctors who see patients “virtually” during the lock-down — no face-to-face check-ups — were given a new billing code by OHIP (Ontario Health Insurance Plan).

Physicians are paid on a fee-for-service model, and every health service has to have a code attached to it for payment.

In mid-March, the OHIP website asked doctors to wait a bit before sending their billing while OHIP retooled the system to accept the new code.

So doctors waited until the end of the month to send their invoices.