Ontario is looking to target high-billing specialists as it proposes a new three-year budget for physician services that would also see more money for family doctors.
Doctors voted overwhelmingly earlier this year to reject a tentative agreement and have said they won't return to negotiations unless the government puts binding arbitration in place -- something the government won't agree to.
But the current plan for physician services spending expires March 31, so the government has handed the Ontario Medical Association a proposal for an interim plan.
It would cut any physician billings over $1 million by 10 per cent, and any billings over $2 million by 20 per cent.
The proposal would also cut the amount doctors could bill for certain procedures and tests that can be performed more quickly due to technological improvements.
Family doctors would be given an additional 1.4 per cent per year -- $185 million -- as compensation for specifying evening and weekend hours they must work.