The province’s auditor general is concerned about the amount of money being paid to doctors in New Brunswick.
Kim MacPherson says only 53% of medicare payments to doctors were audited, though medicare expenditures were more than 533 million dollars last year.
She says in some cases, doctors bill both medicare and Work Safe NB for the same service. She says there are no ramifications for overcharging medicare even though the Health Department has the power to revoke a doctor’s billing privileges.
MacPherson says she has not determined if anyone has committed fraud and all doctor billing should be audited.
She says if all rules were followed the province could recoup more than 3 million dollars a year.
