Doctors’ Find Bolduc’s Caseload Suspicious

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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Figures unveiled by the Quebec Federation of General Practitioners have shown that Yves Bolduc’s caseload as a family physician, when he was an opposition member of the National Assembly, was 45 per cent higher than the provincial average.

According to the statistics, the education minister, Bolduc, started following nearly 1,600 so-called orphan patients, i.e. those who previously did not have a family doctor, at a Quebec City clinic in 2012 while he was in the Liberal opposition. According to the deal negotiated with family physicians when he was health minister, Bolduc was entitled to a $100 bonus per orphan patient. Consequently, he received $160,000 in bonuses, in addition to another $55,000 in other bonuses for taking on “vulnerable patients,” i.e. those suffering from serious chronic illnesses.

Therefore, Bolduc overall received a total sum of $215,000 in bonuses alone, excluding the bills he was paid by the Régie de l’assurance-maladie du Québec for each medical act he performed on patients. A Montreal family physician, Clifford Albert, alleged that “he knew how the system worked to make the most money.” Whereas a spokesperson for the federation of general practitioners, Jean-Pierre Dion, pointed out that the Quebec family physicians follow an average of 1,100 patients, and that they work an average of 50 hours a week, “but a good number of them also practise in parallel in the hospital milieu.” Bolduc said he worked 22 to 27 hours treating patients in addition to his job as an MNA.

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