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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 ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Thomas S. Watson, MD, DPhil March 2021
... analyses have stopped short of supporting any change in practice and if ultrasound’s use as a primary diagnostic ... on patients and supports its continued consideration for practice guidelines and provider training. Competing ... authors have stopped short of recommending changes in practice, and chest X-ray remains the recommended study in ...
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: ...
Billing Tips / BY: Nick Szpakowicz, MD April 2020
... in audits related to your specialty and/or scope of practice. If you are called, the audit will be scheduled ... Committee (AIC) requests an on-site audit of a medical practice, an attempt is made to match the medical inspector with the type of practice being audited. Having a peer physician conduct the ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Judy Dercksen, MD January/February 2019
... attend mental health and addiction counseling. The General Practice Services Committee’s Practice Support Program and website have also improved ... workshops, and telephone coaching. The Divisions of Family Practice website includes a number of resources and ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Paul Dhillon, MBBChBAO, LRCP&SI, EMDM, CCFP, DRCOG, DTM&H(Lon), FRGS March 2019
... Medicine. There is a disparity between the pass rates of practice-eligible candidates and residency-trained ... to preparation for the CCFP exam. Current residents and practice-eligible candidates were surveyed nationally to ...
Beyond Medicine, Interviews / BY: David R. Richardson, MD July/August 2019
... time—I was the first chair of our division of family practice, then I got involved with Shared Care and helped get ... councils and so on. And then the divisions of family practice started up locally just around about the time the ... finish. It was so different for us. You could go do family practice and then go back and specialize later. That ...
Billing Tips / BY: Lorne Verhulst, MD July/August 2018
... attempts to match the medical inspector with the type of practice undergoing the audit. Having a peer physician ... the profession or generally designated by the Patterns of Practice Committee (POPC). Be supportive of the policies and ... . —Lorne Verhulst, MD Chair, Patterns of Practice Committee Billing Tips Why become a medical ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Gabrielle Lynch-Staunton, BFA, BEd December 2018
... his strategic orientation did not go unnoticed. Medical practice Haughton chose emergency medicine deliberately. Few ... taking calls a few nights a week and managing a busy practice. He gradually discovered he enjoyed working night ... BC Children’s Hospital emergency department. Artistic practice The top floor of Haughton’s New Westminster home ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: David Unger, MD December 2018
... “Safe prescribing of opioids and sedatives” practice standard,[ 1 ] published this year, strives to ... were removed and it is now a standard only. (Best practice musts and must nots .) Language was strengthened to ...