Ontario's auditor general has found that the province is not properly overseeing doctors' billings, including in a few cases of physicians billing for more than 24 hours in a day or working 365 days in a year.

Shelley Spence made the findings in her annual report released Tuesday, which contains a series of health-related audits that also found very few family doctors are participating in the province's Health Care Connect system — key to helping Ontario meet its goal of attaching everyone to primary care — and the government hasn't adequately planned its medical school expansion.

As part of the health audits, Spence found that the Ministry of Health system that doctors use to bill OHIP for services provided to patients has limited ability to flag high-risk billings.

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