What we are seeing is some very poor quality medical opinions at a very high price being paid for by Ontario’s car accident victims who have no say on how their recovery benefits are being used to line the pockets of insurer doctors. Treating physicians are compensated with far fewer dollars to clean up the harm done to their patients with their own much more reasonably priced medical reports. As you can see from some of the links below, some physicians are becoming very wealthy by overcharging for medical reports that are without value and when MVA victims cancel assessments with these same IME providers, they are again being overcharged.
FAIR submission to CPSO Uninsured Services Billing and Block Fees draft policy May 1 2017