B.C.'s new physician compensation model will be revealed this fall.
The B.C. government announced last month it's working on a new physician compensation model, expected to be unveiled later this year.Will the changes have an impact on how patients receive care? Glacier Media interviewed a number of experts for this story to shed light on the current fee-for service model and what's being developed.
"By a significant factor,” she said, referring to data from the College of Family Physicians of Canada. A 2016 analysis also shows that when incentive payments were used to compensate doctors for complex patient care, there was no improvement on primary access or continuity. “The underlying issue is that all primary-care infrastructure is funded via physician payments,” she said. “That is equivalent to saying... if we were to graduate teachers and say, ‘Hey, here, we're gonna give you a chunk of money, per lesson, per student, go out and start a school.’ That is fee for service.”
Locum physicians act as a substitute for family doctors in areas that are either underserved or require someone to fill in. He says there are two payment models he has come across: fee for service and the alternative payment plan , though fee for service is the most common.
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