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The most expensive doctor in Ontario, an eye specialist, billed the province for $6.6 million last year.

We don’t know his or her name or where he or she practices, but we know how much that work costs taxpayers each year thanks to a release Friday by the Ontario government of the billing information of the province’s most expensive doctors.

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Over the 2014 to 2015 time period, more than 500 doctors billed the province for more than $1 million in fees. They represent just two per cent of all doctors, but cost $677 million a year, or over six per cent of the more than $11-billion Ontario spends each year on physician compensation.

And many of them charge much more than $1 million, the government’s release shows. Thirty-six billed more than $2 million.

The release intends to debunk a recent ad campaign from the Ontario Medical Association (OMA) arguingthe province’s efforts to rein in certain types of doctors’ fees is hurting patient care. It’s all part of a years-long dispute over doctor fees that’s pitted MDs against the province in a war over patients’ (and voters) hearts and minds.