Private MRI clinics get reprieve while B.C. government clears wait lists

Private clinics offering MRI diagnostics will be allowed to bill patients directly for six more months while the provincial health care system ramps up its own MRI services.
Extra billing by doctors for medically necessary treatments is set to end Oct. 1 when the Medicare Protection Act comes into effect, with the notable exception of MRI imaging.
Private clinics can continue to bill patients for those diagnostic services until April1, 2019, to help clear lengthy wait lists for the procedure.
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