However, questions remain as to whether Dr.  Ayokunle Fagbemigun will never be ordered to repay the full amount owed by OHIP, Ontario Public Health Insurance, for four years, with an Ontario political party calling for immediate action.
“This is public money that is being drained from OHIP.  “The Ontario Greens are urging the provincial government to act immediately using the specific tools at their disposal, especially through the Board of Appeals and the Health Services Review,” the Ontario Green Party said in a statement Friday.
“Ontario’s healthcare system is already in place.  “The Ford government must act quickly to recover the funds lost through fraudulent proceedings,” the statement said.
It is not clear what steps OHIP is taking now to recover the money.  Department officials answered some questions but said they could not answer others during an ongoing investigation, although the investigation appeared to be completed by a decision of the Ontario Medical and Surgeons Disciplinary Tribunal issued Thursday.
“Dr.  “Fagbemigun stole from Ontario’s publicly funded healthcare system and harmed patients for his own financial gain,” the disciplinary committee wrote, imposing a fine of up to $ 35,000 and an estimated $ 72,000 in costs.
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The committee expressed its willingness to reimburse the public before the costs were decided – and said that if further action could be taken, it would be done through OHIP and the courts.
In 2019, the Ontario government gave the Health Services Appeals and Review Board the power to listen to OHIP requests for funding from doctors.
But, according to his secretary, all the cases he heard on this issue were in fact doctors who tried to recover funds from OHIP and none with OHIP who tried to recover funds from doctors.
The commission found that Fagbemigun billed about 42,000 tests and procedures from 2014 to 2018 that it could not do because it did not purchase the supplies.
Dr. Ayokunle Fagbemigun appears in this undated image.
It also sent real patients for tests they did not need, including taking medication on a nine-year-old and giving eight pregnancy tests to a woman who is not sexually active, and received referral fees from another body, the commission found.
Fagbemigun’s office is located in the Etobicoke-North area, with the Premier Doug Ford’s campaign office visible across the street.
No one was there when they visited CTV News or the Ford constituency office.  The call to the phone number hanging on the door sent a message saying: “Doug Ford’s mailbox, MPP, is full.”
In the office of Robin Martin, who was most recently the parliamentary assistant to the Secretary of Health, a staff member received a message – the last of many messages left by CTV News.
A spokesman for the prime minister’s office said elected officials were in the middle of a “post-election” period in which former Health Minister Christine Eliot was no longer running.
Patients came to the doctor’s office at regular intervals looking for their doctor, but could not see them.
“I should have seen him today.  “We do not know what is happening,” said Iris Omo.
She and a companion turned to try other doctors in the building.