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Billing Tips / BY: Keith J. White, MD January/February 2015
... of all fees.  —Keith J. White, MD Chair, Patterns of Practice Committee Billing Tips Submitting claims for a ...
Letters / BY: Lorne Brandt, MD, January/February 2015
... town, and me. In our personal care home we had a practice of reviewing medications with the charge nurse every ... or changed. The neighboring town did not have this practice. Not surprisingly, the average number of drugs taken ...
Letters / BY: Mike Marshall, MD, January/February 2015
... just as the overall decline in full-service family practice began when we were told we did not qualify for ...
Letters / BY: Shelley Ross, MD January/February 2015
... catastrophic hemorrhage of general practitioners from the practice of obstetrics when there was a political decision ... targets a variety of GPs, including those who are new to practice and want a bit of a confidence boost and ongoing ... from the MC4BC program to apply ( http://gpscbc.ca/family-practice-incentive/maternity-care-bc ). —Shelley Ross, MD ...
President's Comment / BY: Bill Cavers, MD January/February 2015
... expectation of success. A committee called the General Practice Services Committee (GPSC). Over the last 14 years ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Cathy Clelland, MD January/February 2015
... There is enhanced access for appointments. 5.    The practice includes well-supported information technology, ... health care provider satisfaction, knowledge, skills, and practice behaviors; broader range of services; better access, ... are four main issues: 1.    Clarification of scope of practice and roles 2.    Information sharing 3.    ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Gabrielle Lynch-Staunton, BFA, BEd January/February 2015
... case. In the 1920s medical specialties emerged and medical practice began to shift from home to office and hospital. ... and Surgeons of Canada in 1931. Since the 1950s general practice has become a specialty in its own right. As medicine ...
Billing Tips / BY: Keith J. White, MD March 2015
... with a written order [also referred to as a Patterns of Practice Order] made under Section 37(1)(e) to adopt an appropriate pattern of practice or billing. De-enrollment does not mean a physician ... you have been audited before and have signed a Patterns of Practice Order, it is critically important that you comply ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD March 2015
... more level-headed colleagues might have mentioned that the practice of dictating discharge summaries was actually good ...
Letters / BY: Rick Potter-Cogan, MB BCh BAO March 2015
... article promoting a living and local method of family practice review and quality improvement [ BCMJ ... Re: Measuring and improving quality of care in family practice ...