Thank you, Madam Chair and witnesses.
I would like to address the rest of my questions to Mr. Potter.
Most insurance companies approve major treatments through advance submission of X-rays, rather than after the fact. I know you're not in the insurance business, but I might suggest that part of remedying the situation with verification might be to go through the advance verification, rather than sending auditors out to scour through patients' private medical information after the fact, and using the power of the federal government to do so.
The onus of treatment verification on the part of the contractor is still somewhat troubling, because that is something they should be doing anyhow as part of their contract, rather than the contractee having to expend resources to do what was already supposed to be in the contract.
At the end of your answer you stated that any moneys found owing by the providers or the pharmacies were repaid to the consolidated revenue fund. Do you have any idea how much that amounted to?