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Summary:  The record at issue in this appeal, created in response to a request by a journalist, sets out the total dollar amounts paid annually to the top 100 OHIP billers, their names and their medical specialties, for the years 2008-2012.  The ministry disclosed the dollar amounts and most of the specialties, but withheld the physicians’ names and some of the specialties under the personal privacy exemption at section 21(1) of the Act.  One of the parties to the appeal also raised the third party information exemption at section 17(1) of the Act.  The appellant claims that the public interest override in section 23 applies.  In this order, the adjudicator finds that: (1) the record does not contain personal information, and as a consequence, section 21(1) does not apply; (2) section 17(1) also does not apply; and (3) there is a compelling public interest in the disclosure of the record that would clearly outweigh the purposes of these exemptions if they applied.  The ministry is ordered to disclose the record in its entirety to the appellant.