• gramie@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    And the other side is also fucked up. I have a family member who has been a doctor in the US and Canada.

    In the US, each doctor had two full-time employees just working on that doctor’s billing. In Canada, his clinic of four doctors had one person working part-time doing the billing to our government health insurance.

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      8 months ago

      In Canada, his clinic of four doctors had one person working part-time doing the billing to our government health insurance.

      This needs context. Was his clinic in Canada understaffed, or did Canadian health insurance paperwork require considerably less time to process?

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        8 months ago

        His clinic in Canada didn’t need anything more than one person working half time to process all of its doctors’ paperwork to submit to the provincial health system.