
New Fees: MAiD
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Preamble to Fees
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Panel Payment
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Fee-for-Service: Using good billing practices to lower your audit risk
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New Fee: Assessment for COVID-19 Therapeutics
…the assessment must be entered in both the billing claim and the patient’s chart. iii) Payable in addition to any visit or consult fee on the same day if medically required, provided the visit does not take place during a time interval that overlaps. Start and end times of the visit must be entered in the billing claim and the patient’s chart. Tip: If a patient is assessed for COVID-19 therapeutics (as per guidelines) and the assessment determines…

Fee-for-Service: Amendments to Obstetric Fees 14105 and 14005
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Fee-for-Service: New Fee for Family Conferences
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Just one more question
…edule with requests to fit in yet another patient who can’t wait. Hours of charting at the end of the day at home, hours of missed time with my family. And here’s the hardest part. Being asked multiple times a day by my dear patients if they can ask just one more question at the end of their visit. I know what’s coming. I’m already running behind. But I can’t stop it. ”I just have a quick question. You see, my [insert family member or friend here]…

5 Tips to Avoid Teleplan Rejections for In-Office Care
…or refused. It is important to remember that you are ultimately responsible for any billings submitted under your practitioner number, even if you receive support from an MOA or billing service. Ensure that whatever you bill to MSP has an adequate and corresponding patient record in your chart. When in doubt about anything on your remittance statement, MSP has practitioner assistance available by phone. Vancouver: (604) 456-6950 Elsewhere in B.C.:…

Fee-for-Service: Improved Substance Use Care Fees
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New Fee: Body Mass Index Surgical Assist Surcharge
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LFP Payment Model: Tips to lower your audit risk
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New Fee: Emergency Medicine Reassessment
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2022-2025 WorkSafeBC Agreement
…e as well as specialist physicians. Upon request, WorkSafeBC will consider approving one additional 19953 fee code (up to two codes total), where physicians need to spend a significant amount of time complying with WorkSafeBC’s chart note requests All WorksafeBC rates have been updated in the Simplified Fee Guide. WorkSafeBC billing resources can be found in Practice Tools. Questions? Connect with our physician billing experts at billing@bcfamilyd…

B.C. has more family doctors with new payment model, but issues still need addressing
…to keep track of countless billing codes. Now I have time to do proactive chart reviews, reminding patients about upcoming screenings and check-ups before they come in. I can also bill for indirect patient care activities, like talking to families or teachers and school counselors, people who with key information to help my patient. More than 4,000 family physicians are using the new payment system, marking a big change in our healthcare system….

New Fees for CCFP-EM: Advice and Patient Follow-up
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Fee-For-Service: Long-Term Care Updates
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Shape policy: Represent us on CHEP
…to grapple with complex challenges and develop needed policy positions to chart a course for a better healthcare system? If you said ‘yes’, then we encourage you to put your name forward to be our BC Family Doctors’ representative on the Council on Health Economics and Policy (CHEP). This Doctors of BC committee assesses and develops fiscal, resource and program policies and position statements on a variety of issues. Positions open: • One BC Fam…

New Fee: Trauma-informed gynecologic care in the ER
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Fee-for-Service: Labour and Birth Billing
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