We Heard You Loud and Clear – You Want Change
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Our PMA 2025 Priorities
…ing care to our patients. Patients before paperwork! Expand business and practice supports The rising costs of business and lack of support for primary care clinics is overwhelming family doctors. We are ready for team-based care but don’t feel supported to succeed. Family doctors want to efficiently run our clinics and implement new ways of providing care. We need to better resource physicians and family medicine clinics for the foundational role…
Media spotlight on our advocacy toolkit
Advocating for change! Our election advocacy toolkit is getting media attention. We’ve been featured in interviews on Global TV and CTV talking about priority issues for family doctors and patients alike. On CBC and CFAX 1070 radio, we shared our thoughts on the challenges in family medicine and the solutions we’re pushing for. Let’s keep building momentum and continue to speak out for a healthcare system that works for everyone. Download our too…
Sharing family doctor advice for flu season
…rs play a critical role during respiratory illness season, helping patients navigate flu season with comprehensive health advice, immunizations, and preventive healthcare. Dr. Zeineddin shared the best ways to stay healthy this flu season, including getting a flu shot and caring for yourself. Watch Dr. Zeineddin’s interview here!…
Why medical schools need more rural students
…nificantly improve care delivery and patient outcomes. Rewards of rural practice Practicing rural medicine comes with unique challenges. In small communities, anonymity is rare; everyone knows who you are—and that you’re a doctor. While this visibility can be challenging it creates a profound connection to the community. What sustains me in this demanding profession is the constant opportunity to learn and teach. Family medicine encompasses th…
Fee-for-Service Survey – What Did We Learn?
…ts complexity, mental health, and indirect work, alongside new codes for teaching, after-hours care, and team-based practice. Creating a simpler, more equitable system – with fewer codes, fairer payments, and transparent adjudication – was a consistent theme. Complexity and mental health need time; under fee-for-service we are not paid for time. This is a fundamental problem which needs addressing. We thank all members who took the time to provide…
Upcoming LFP Payment Model Billing Education: Clinic-based Webinar Series
…ding in late August. Please watch this recording before attending the webinars. There will be dedicated time at the beginning of the September 18 webinar (Clinic-based Time Codes) to review any questions around the recording. As space is limited, registration is open only to family physicians and residents. For those interested in viewing the webinar recordings after the sessions, they will be shared on the Doctors of BC YouTube channel and in the…
LFP payment model attracts family doctors from UK to BC
…payment model supports continuous, relationship-based patient care and aligns with the shared goal of longitudinal primary care and fair compensation. Their story shows how competitive practice models such as LFP are helping attract and retain a much-needed primary care physician to BC. We are excited to welcome them to our province….
Business Cost Premium Registration and Retro Pay
…r by July 31, 2022 are eligible to resubmit billing claims to receive retroactive BCP payment back to April 1, 2021. Doctors who register on August 1, 2022 or after are eligible to resubmit billing claims to receive retroactive BCP payment back to April 1, 2022. Check out the BCP page on the Doctors of BC website for information including eligibility criteria, registration, and application forms. How to resubmit to claim retroactive BCP payment: B…
COVID-19 Sick Note Requests
…nd take sick days, they do not require a note from their physician to get back to work or school or return to daycare or childcare. BC Family Doctors believes sick notes place an unnecessary burden on the health care system at a time when physicians are addressing the biggest public health challenge of our time. The provision of a sick note, similar to completion of an insurance form, is not considered a medically necessary service. Patients can b…
Fee-for-Service: Using good billing practices to lower your audit risk
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Stabilization Funding Announcement
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Constructing New Pedways in 2024
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Join a Doctors of BC committee
…he function of the MSC is to facilitate, in the manner provided for in the Act, reasonable access, throughout British Columbia, to quality medical care, health care and diagnostic facility services for residents of British Columbia under the Medical Services Plan. For further information and to apply for the opportunity, please click here. (Log in required.) 2. WorkSafeBC Liaison Committee One family physician is needed to serve on the WorkSafeBC…
New Fee: Emergency Medicine Reassessment
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Advocacy
…ly Doctors advocates for the fundamental role of family doctors to be seen, heard and valued. We speak to the issues important to you. It’s part of our commitment to stand up for the unique value of family doctors in this province. ACT NOW OUR PMA 2025 PRIORITIES STRATEGIC PLAN OUR VIEWS Our advocacy takes many forms: Representing family doctors at negotiations Working with government and our partner physician organizations Convening think tanks a…
Fee-For-Service Tools & Resources
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More residents choosing family practice under new payment model
…Medicine Residents’ Intentions to Practice in Longitudinal Primary Care, is part of an unpublished manuscript held at UBC and will be referenced in an upcoming Medical Post article. To access the study, contact the study authors, Kristie Chau, Spencer Cheyne, Philip Green, Matthew Lum, Kristen Wiemken and Evelyn Cornelissen here….