2022-2025 WorkSafeBC Agreement
…bonus when you send a Form 8 electronically within 2 business days of the date of service. You can receive payment for up to 18 Form 11s while WorkSafeBC is deliberating on the approval of a patient’s claim. Fee codes 19909 and 19910 have been replaced with new fee codes. (Rates vary depending on whether the form is submitted within or after 15 business days): Fee code 19978 – Pre-operative or Standardized Assessment Form Fee code 19977 – Opioid…
Business Cost Premium Expansion
…nt Model or the Alternative Payment Program (APP). Claims submitted with a date of service before April 1, 2025 will be automatically processed according to the original BCP payment rules. Claims submitted with a date of service on or after April 1, 2025 will be automatically processed according to the expanded BCP rules. For more information about the BCP changes, please review the information on the Doctors of BC website, including eligibility r…
2025 Annual General Meeting
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Fee change: Expanding Access to Vasectomies
…ional procedures. If you are submitting claims more than 90 days after the date of service (overage claims): Use Submission Code “A”. You do not need to add a claim note record. When submitting a new claim for vasectomy bonus 13655, ensure it matches the date of service and PHN of the 08345 vasectomy claim. The deadline for submitting overage claims is October 18, 2025. More needs to be done We’re committed to ensuring every patient in BC can acce…
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…amily doctor. Our Billing Alerts and Billing Questions Team provide up-to-date information and answer billing questions to ensure accurate and efficient billing. Our website and email newsletters provide the latest updates in the BC medical arena, with a unique lens on family medicine. Our free Locum & Job Listing Service is the #1 Google search result for family practice locums in BC, helping you recruit for your practice. How do I join? Becomi…
COVID-19 Resources for Doctors
…heir teams with: COVID NEWS BANNERS: Pathways is creating VERY BRIEF up to date news banners with active links that are being pushed to every Division’s homepage COVID PATIENT AND PHYSICIAN RESOURCES: The Pathways Resource Committee has been meeting frequently and entering practical Physician Tools and Patient Info NEW SPECIALTY OF COVID CARE: Physicians have been asking for a Central Repository of COVID Assessment Centres. Pathways has entered cl…
More Than “Just a Family Doctor”
…share news written by or about family physicians to keep our members up to date on topics impacting our professional lives. Originally published in: CMAJ Blogs By Dr. Christine Hanna Christine Hanna is a family and emergency physician, the medical director/chief of the Division of emergency medicine at Quinte Health Care, and an assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Queen’s University. Whether you are a medical trainee, allie…
What are We Really Telling Our Medical Students?
…share news written by or about family physicians to keep our members up to date on topics impacting our professional lives. By Drs. Jane Philpott, Tony Sanfilippo, and Karen Schultz In an ideal world, medical students would go into the [CaRMS] match feeling that all areas of medicine are equally valued, and their choice would be based solely on interest and aptitude. Unfortunately, it is increasingly clear that students are exposed during medical…
How Medicine’s Gender Power Gap Sets Up Women for Unequal Pay and Less Prestigious Jobs
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My Doctor Dumped Me. Here’s Why That’s So Common
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To all those struggling.
…two, or three, sometimes four weeks. Often the notes got re-written. A new date set. Extensions in time. Healing slowing down the 24 hours of a clock, to intervals that weren’t sufficient to heal a broken mind. Covid anxiety breaking those who had been holding themselves together with tape but now found with people panic buying, that they could no longer find any. All toilet paper, and pieces that could stick oneself together being pilfered. Snatc…
How to encourage more family doctors
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I Care as a Mother
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Doctors disappointed by lack of support for family physicians in B.C. budget
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Biosimilar Patient Support Fees (Insulin)
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BC Green Party calls for overhaul of funding for family doctors
…British Columbians without a family doctor. “The billing model is very outdated and does not provide the stability needed for good medical care,“ Furstenau said Wednesday. “Doctors are basically running a small business instead of putting their focus into caring for their community members.” Watch and read the full story here here . Originally published and broadcast on Global News. News articles do not necessarily represent the views of BC Famil…
‘In crisis’: Award-winning B.C. family doctor mulls giving up bursting practice
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Notice of Results 2022-2023
…rict 10 Thompson Dr Grant Del Begio District 11 Cariboo No applicants to date District 12 Peace River Dr Magda Du Plessis District 13 Okanagan Dr Celestine Esume District 14 West Kootenay Dr Brian Moulson District 15 East Kootenay Dr Ashley Bakker District 16 Surrey/White Rock Dr Sujatha Nilavar First 5 years of Practice Dr Irfan Rajani Chair of the Economics Committee Dr Karen Forgie Representative to the Statutory Negotiating Committee Dr Ma…
Fee-for-Service: Using good billing practices to lower your audit risk
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