Fees

Panel management is a process of proactively managing a defined population of patients, using EMR data to identify and respond to patients’ chronic and preventative care needs. To help doctors and their teams implement and sustain panel management, the GPSC has developed the Phases of Panel Management – a framework that helps doctors and their teams introduce and implement new tools and clinic processes to enable planned proactive care.

To support practice teams undertaking the Phases of Panel Management, the following GPSC supports are available:

The GPSC is asking family doctors who currently use or have used the GPSC fees to complete a short survey to make sure the fees support doctors in their practice.

Physician responses will help the GPSC develop billing education supports that will aim to provide better understanding of how to appropriately bill GPSC incentives in practice.

Click here to start the survey, which will take about 15 minutes to complete. Participation is voluntary and anonymous.

The GPSC is developing a new Panel Development Incentive to compensate doctors for the time and effort required to improve the accuracy and quality of patient data. This incentive will enhance supports for panel management, which include in-practice coaching and EMR-based panel management tools.

As of June 1, 2018, two new fees to compensate physicians for treatment of patients with opioid use disorder came into effect:

Many GPs are working in practice teams to increase capacity for themselves and their practices. To support this approach, and in response to physician feedback through the GPSC visioning consultations, the GPSC has simplified and aligned some of its incentive fees.

The GPSC incentives continue to change in response to physician feedback collected during the visioning consultations, and to support the strategic objectives of the patient medical home model. The majority of the changes came into effect as of October 1, 2017. Additional changes to GPSC incentives will come into effect as of January 1, 2018.

The following table summarizes the changes to GPSC incentives to better support physicians in their practices: (Revised: November 30, 2017)