[SeekAndFind]

RE: Slowly but surely salary caps on doctors plus cut backs in services such as disappearing private doctors in practice.

Can anyone tell me whether private practice is even allowed in Canada?

Is a doctor allowed to open his own clinic and charge patients for procedures he gives?

[SIRTRIS]

I use to live in Canada.

My long time private doctor was driven out of his practice because the government reduced his funding & associated fees (overhead) to run the practice. Walk-in clinics are now the new private doctors with long wait lines.

Procedures codes(payouts) approved by the “managed health care” panel. Canadians fought against any two-tier medical service, kinda like an opt-out thing with fees. Specialist are differently run with more flexibility.

Biggest issue still remaining are long wait lines. Those with money go to the US for fast and efficient service.

[Sam Gamgee]

It has been tried but no. A clinic opened in Vancouver, it got protest, and the BC government shut it down.

Theoretically, family doctors are private businesses. They pay office costs, pay salaries, ect... The difference is they charge back to Ministry of Health.