In response to the overwhelming amount of interest in the billing webinar series for new-to-practice GPs earlier this year, the GPSC and SGP are pleased to present their three-part series again in the spring.
For this series, a new-to-practice GP is:
Emailed directly to BC family physicians this week, the latest issue of the GPSC’s quarterly newsletter, GP Update, is now available online.
The winter 2019 issue features news on:
Read the winter 2019 issue of the GPSC newsletter.
The GPSC has made changes to some of its fees to enable delegation, simplify billing, and clarify requirements.
These changes are part of the GPSC’s continued efforts to support full-service family doctors to improve access to care and services.
On January 15, dozens of participants joined the Introductions to Basic MSP Billing for Family Practice webinar –the first in a three-part series for new-to-practice and new-to-BC GPs. With the fulsome discussions and engagement, the 90-minute webinar went longer than anticipated.
The GPSC has revised some of its incentive fees to better support physicians working in teams. Doctors may now delegate non-face-to-face planning tasks to College-certified allied care providers (ACP) working within a GP practice.
Previously, the College-certified allied care provider had to be employed by (or, employed within) the physician practice.
This change affects the following four GPSC incentives; please click on link below for the latest billing guide:
The Personal Health Risk Assessment (Prevention) (G14066) has been amended to align with the GPSC planning fees. Effective January 1, 2019, physicians are no longer required to bill a visit fee in addition to the G14066 fee. A visit fee may still be billed in addition if medically required and does not take place concurrently with the face-to-face planning included under the G14066.
To reflect s recent change to MSP fee 0120, the GPSC added the following note to its mental health management fees:
This confirms the rules in the MSC Preamble (C.10 Adequate Medical Records of a Benefit under MSP).
GPs are reminded to submit the GPSC Portal (G14070) or GPSC Locum Portal fee (G14071) at the start of the new year.
Submitting G14070/71 enables GPs to bill the following fee codes:
• G14075 GP Frailty Complex Care Planning and Management Fee.
• G14076 GP Patient Telephone Management Fee.
• G14077 GP Allied Care Provider Conferencing Fee.
• G14078 GP Email/Text/Telephone Medical Advice Relay Fee.
• G14029 GP Allied Care Provider Practice Code.
To avoid billing refusal, GPs will need to bill G14070/71 as follows:
The GPSC is partnering with the SGP to host a webinar series for new-to-practice GPs about billing GPSC incentive fees in its continued efforts to support GPs to bill GPSC fees.
Inspired by the Vancouver Division’s offering and based on physician feedback, the three-part series will be available to physicians who are new to practice. For this series, a new-to-practice GP is:
Family doctors tell us that GPSC fees are more aligned and simpler after the GPSC made changes to some of its fees last year. The changes focused on ensuring billing rules are consistent and easier to understand.
But, doctors tell us that there is more we can do to support them, particularly with billing some fees that might be complicated.