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Editorials / BY: David J. Esler, MD, CCFP(EM) May 2022
... you are never going to see a new privately built family practice in Victoria again.” Nonetheless, recruiting ... Dr Velikovsky and her husband is expected to “build a practice panel from the more elderly and complex patients of ... While such patients have always been part of general practice, they require considerable expertise, patience, and ...
Billing Tips / BY: Janet Evans, MD, CFPC, FCFP December 2022
... this subject continues to pose a problem, the Patterns of Practice Committee decided to revisit the topic. While ... as time-consuming, it is an important requirement of practice. In the process of a billing audit, the physician ... detailed service provision requirements, such as General Practice Services Committee fee items for family physicians, ...
Editorials / BY: David B. Chapman, MBChB June 2022
... there is no incentive for family physicians to work in a practice that provides full-service longitudinal care. First, ... family physicians for the work they did outside of their practice—for example, committee work for the association. ... compensating us for the added costs of running an office practice, over and above what family physicians who don’t ...
Editorials / BY: David B. Chapman, MBChB July/August 2022
... in certain disciplines are also leaving private practice for settings that do not involve them running an ... In my community, there are no psychiatrists in private practice. They all work in the hospital or mental health ...
Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB June 2021
... on private health insurance and physicians’ dual practice will face a judicial review by the BC Court of ...
Editorials, COVID-19 / BY: David R. Richardson, MD July/August 2021
... just a few minutes earlier. Why are we so tired? In family practice we spend a fair bit of time and effort with minimal ...
Billing Tips / BY: Janet Evans, MD, CFPC, FCFP July/August 2021
... this subject continues to pose a problem, the Patterns of Practice Committee decided to rerun the article. The ... province. While the enrolment, auditing, and patterns of practice of referring practitioners remain under the MPA, the ... sought. —Janet Evans, MD, CFPC, FCFP Chair, Patterns of Practice Committee Billing Tips Laboratory Services Act: What ...
Billing Tips / BY: Janet Evans, MD, CFPC, FCFP September 2021
... this subject continues to pose a problem, the Patterns of Practice Committee decided to rerun the article. In the ... —Janet Evans, MD, CFPC, FCFP Chair, Patterns of Practice Committee Billing Tips Laboratory Services Act: ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD October 2021
... due to my wife’s illness and my sudden absence from my practice. Initially my patients were told I was away for ...
Editorials, COVID-19 / BY: David B. Chapman, MBChB January/February 2021
... by our current reality. The number of positive cases in my practice and those of my colleagues has risen steadily in ...