Ontario government plans to recoup COVID-19 loans to province's doctors
The Ontario government laid out plans to recoup the money in a memo issued to the Ontario Medical Association on Friday. The province said it is "critical" to recover more than $521 million in outstanding loan payments from the COVID-19 Advance Payment Program in order to fund other priorities.
"These funds are critical for important priorities like expanding access to team-based primary care, home care, mental health services and shortening wait times for key surgeries and procedures." "The ministry has conducted an analysis against providers’ recent billings and is extremely confident in the ability for those who still owe to repay any outstanding loans," it said in the memo.
"As Ontario and the rest of the world continues to a post-pandemic transition, we have seen billings return to normal and are confident in the ability in those who owe to repay outstanding loans," Hannah Jensen, spokeswoman for Health Minister Sylvia Jones, said in an emailed statement. But the loan recovery process was quickly paused as the third wave of the pandemic wreaked havoc in Ontario that month. After collecting the first round of instalments, the province temporarily stopped deducting pay from doctors in May 2021 "until further notice."
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