Rural doctors exempt from overhead billing as Shandro rolls back changes

Alberta’s health ministry says it is rolling back changes to how rural doctors are paid. Minister Tyler Shandro said the province will inject more money into a rural-remote northern program that provides top-up payments to doctors in rural and remote communities. The program used to pay a flat amount plus a variable premium on fees doctors bill patients, but the$60,000 cap on the variable will now be lifted immediately, Shandro said. He said the changes will make it “the most generou