living in community
For the purpose of its incentives, FPSC considers patients living in group homes to be living in community.
Read more »For the purpose of its incentives, FPSC considers patients living in group homes to be living in community.
Read more »A service that is not a benefit as defined by the MSC.
Read more »A medical practitioner who is a certificant or a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada; and/or be so recognized by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia in that particular specialty.
Read more »Notify MSP that a referral has been made to you by including the MSP practitioner number of the referring physician in the “Referred by Field” on your FFS claim. On occasion, a MSP practitioner’s number is not available (e.g.: alternative payment practitioner), for these rare cases the following generic numbers have been established: 99957 – …
Read more »Referring practitioner: Notify MSP of a referral by including the MSP practitioner number of the physician being referred to in the“Referred to Field” on your fee for service (FFS) claim. If no FFS claim is being submitted, a claim record for a “no charge referral” may be submitted to MSP under fee item 03333 with …
Read more »For the purpose of its incentives when referring to assisted living, FPSC utilizes the ministry definition found here.
Read more »A request from one practitioner to another practitioner to render a service for a specific patient; typically the service is one or more of a consultation, a laboratory service, diagnostic test, specific surgical, or medical treatment.
Read more »For the purpose of FPSC incentives, a family physician is working as a “community longitudinal family physician” (CLFP) when they do all of the following: Assume the role of most responsible physician/provider (MRP) for a known panel of patients Confirm patient-physician relationship with their patients through a standardized conversation or “compact”, as outlined in 14070. …
Read more »The transfer of responsibility from one medical practitioner to another for the care of patient, temporarily or permanently. This is distinguished from a referral, and does not provide the basis for billing a consultation; the exception is that, when the complexity or severity of illness necessitates that accepting the transferal requires an initial chart review …
Read more »A person or organization other than the patient, his/her agent, or MSP that is requesting and/or assuming financial responsibility for a medical or medically-related service.
Read more »Notifying MSP of a referral is usually done by including the practitioner number of the physician to who the patient is being referred on your fee for service claim. If no fee for service claim is being submitted, a “no charge referral” is a claim submitted to MSP under fee item 03333 with a zero …
Read more »Care provided to a terminally ill patient during the final 6 months of life, where a decision has been made that there will be no aggressive treatment of the underlying disease, and care is directed to maintaining the comfort of the patient until death occurs.
Read more »For the purpose of its incentives, FPSC defines allied care providers (ACPs) “working within” a physician practice team as ACPs who work as part of an FP practice’s team to support the ongoing care of its patients. The costs of an ACP “working within” the practice team may be paid either by the physician practice …
Read more »For the purposes of its incentives, FPSC defines allied care providers (ACPs) “employed by” a physician practice as ACPs who are employed by a physician practice and paid out of practice earnings to work directly within the practice team, with no cost recovery either directly or indirectly from a third party (e.g. health authority, division …
Read more »Allied care providers who are college-certified are governed by a provincial regulatory college or body. Specific FPSC incentives may require ACPs to be college-certified for the delegation of tasks, whereas other FPSC incentives may not require ACPs to be college-certified to undertake delegated tasks. Fee notes will clearly indicate whether the ACP must be college-certified …
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