We hope you join SGP in 2020. Please renew your membership now for ongoing website access and to support our work on your behalf. As a member of the SGP, you will have access to: Regular updates on the economic and political work of the organization; A motivated team of fellow-family doctors working towards improving …
Read more »Our office will be closed from December 21st, 2019 to January 5th, 2020 inclusive. If you have urgent concerns, please send us an email via sgp.office@doctorsofbc.ca before December 19th. For inquiries during the office closure, we appreciate your understanding for the delayed response. We will do our best to answer your inquiries as soon as …
Read more »Family doctors are invited to a GPSC led 90-minute webinar, focused on both MSP fees and GPSC incentives that support doctors to work in team-based care environments. Tuesday, Nov 26 at 6pm | Register Click here for more details. For additional information about how to bill while working in a team-based environment, please take a …
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Read more »Update: September 9, 2019 Due to a technical delay, the increases noted below are not currently activated in the MSP system. The GPSC anticipates this issue to be resolved soon. Current rates will apply until MSP distributes a broadcast message that indicates the rate increases. The new rates will be retroactive to April 1, 2019, …
Read more »Family doctors and their MOAs are encouraged to participate in upcoming four-part webinar series about GPSC incentive fees. Based on physician feedback, SGP and GPSC are expanding the availability of the series to all family doctors and their MOAs. The webinars were first presented to new-to-practice family doctors in winter 2018 and spring 2019. Led …
Read more »Effective May 1st, punch and shave biopsies which require sutures may now be billed under fees 13600 or 13601. A major tray fee is billable in addition. For punch and shave biopsies that do not require sutures, continue to bill as an age appropriate office visit fee 0100 series.
Read more »There is still space to register for the May 1st UBC CPD webinar for Family Physicians Saying Goodbye to the CL19: Supporting Care and Recovery of People Involved in MVAs. Register here Separate webinars are available for MOAs on May 10th and May 15th over the lunch hour. Register: https://ubccpd.ca/course/icbc-moa-webinar
Read more »SGP and BCCFP hosted a conference on April 5 and 6, entitled Family Doctors: Standing Up & Standing Out. It was a great event. We celebrated the unique skills and superpowers of family doctors. Attendees told us that they felt energized and inspired. We wanted to share our conference opening video: Ordinary family doctors are …
Read more »SGP Members can read this overview of ICBC changes. The new fees include 3 new assessment fees, and 2 new telephone management and conferencing fees. You can review all the fee details on the ICBC page of our Simplified Guide to Fees.
Read more »SGP is pleased to host a second online event for family doctors about the 2019 Physician Master Agreement (PMA). These events will help you to find out more about how the PMA will affect family doctors in BC. Dr. Trina Larsen Soles, Chair of the Statutory Negotiating Committee, and Mr. Paul Straszak, Chief Negotiator for …
Read more »Do you have the information that you need to vote on the 2019 tentative Physician Master Agreement? Dr. Trina Larsen Soles, Chair of the Statutory Negotiating Committee, and Mr. Paul Straszak, Chief Negotiator for Doctors of BC, will give a short presentation about the PMA and then we will open it up for your questions. …
Read more »In response to the overwhelming amount of interest in the billing webinar series for new-to-practice GPs earlier this year, the GPSC and SGP are pleased to present their three-part series again in the spring. Led by physician educators, each 90-minute webinar will be cumulative and content-specific. Here are the details about each webinar: Introduction to …
Read more »Family Doctors: Standing Up and Standing Out We are happy to be co-hosting a family medicine conference in Victoria with the BC College of Family Physicians (BCCFP) on April 5 and 6, 2019. Ordinary family doctors are extraordinary. We provide excellent clinical care and advocate for our patients in a fragmented health system. We walk beside …
Read more »A new fee note was added to the 0120 and the Mental Health management fees (14044/45/46/47/48) effective December 1, 2018: Documentation of the effect(s) of the condition on the patient and what advice or service was provided is required. This confirms the rules in the Preamble (C.10 Adequate Medical Records of a Benefit under MSP). …
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