Counsellor overbills $360K for care of First Nations patients in Ontario – CBC
Health Canada investigation of Ontario counsellor treating Indigenous patients finds massive overbilling
Nov 25, 2016
Auditors got suspicious when invoices showed a mental-health professional working with Indigenous patients had billed Health Canada for more than 28.5 hours of counselling in a single 24-hour period.
After painstaking analysis of hundreds of invoices, Health Canada abruptly terminated its agreement with the woman late last year when auditors reported she had overbilled taxpayers for up to $360,255.
CBC News uncovered the latest case of overbilling in Health Canada’s programs for First Nations and Inuit people through documents obtained through the Access to Information Act.
The overpayment amount was buried in an obscure section of the Public Accounts of Canada, tabled in Parliament last month, without detail or explanation.
