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Podcast: This Matters
Episode: The big business of chronic pain treatment in Ontario: Inside the Star investigation of pain doctors and injections
Description: Ontario allows for doctors to bill for up to eight nerve blocks per patient, per day, without a limit on a frequency of those visits, an exclusive Toronto Star investigation looking into how chronic pain management has become big business in Ontario reveals. The tax-funded health system has paid more than $420 million for these kinds of nerve blocks since 2011. Star reporters Theresa Boyle and Jesse McLean were part of the investigating team who covered this and they join Saba Eitizaz on This Matters.