Red flags are going up over the Ontario Health Insurance Plan and what some doctors are billing the province.
A report in the Toronto Star highlights the 12 top billing doctors over the course of a year.
All are specialists and allegedly received payments of between $2 million and $7 million.
The report lays out allegations of very questionable claims that include a gynaecologist billing to see male patients, six specialists claiming to have worked to have worked between 356 and 364 days a year, another doctor claims to have seen 100 thousand patients and performed 300 scans as a diagnostic radiologist.
The province hasn't indicated what - if anything - its course of action will be.
There are a number of recommendations being made in the report that include seeking repayment, fraud referral to the OPP, and referral to the Physician Payment Review Board.
In November the Auditor General released a report raising red flags over physician billing.
It found the Ministry of Health isn't following up on many cases of possible inappropriate billings. Since 2013, the ministry hasn't actively tried to recover overpayments. It had recovered $19,000 in 2014 but nothing in 2014 or 2015. In previous years overpayment recoveries were well over a million dollars.
The Auditor General also found of 34 physicians who billed inappropriately 21 of them had previous instances of inappropriate billing.