Important updates about FPSC supports for inpatient care, following up on the information communicated in the June 7 FPSC Special Update.
Short-Term FPSC Transition Funding for Inpatient Care
- In response to feedback from divisions of family practice, FPSC is providing temporary transitional funding from now until December 2024.
- This time-limited funding consolidates and replaces the bridge and stabilization funding and the additional transition funding supports that were previously announced for October to December.
- This funding must be used to maintain, not increase, physician compensation from divisions. It should be used, if needed, to support on-call availability, unassigned inpatient care networking, physician recruitment, or other activities not currently covered by the LFP Payment Model.
FPSC On-Call/Availability
- On-Call/Availability Funding for Inpatient Care: Paused until January 2025.
- On-Call/Availability Funding for Long-Term Care: Remains available from July 1, 2024.
- Physicians providing on-call availability for long-term care and inpatient care at the same time may receive the long-term care on-call payment and inpatient care transition funding until December 31, 2024.
- There is no change to the MOCAP maternity availability payments.
What you need to do:
- For more information about Transition Funding for Inpatient Care, visit FPSC's Inpatient Care page.
- Visit the Doctors of BC website (login required) for the LFP Payment Model inpatient calculator, and the BC Family Doctors website (login required) for the simplified fee guide, FAQs, and additional useful tools.
Next steps:
Over the next few months, divisions of family practice will be supported to work with their members and with health authorities to evolve inpatient delivery models as needed for January 2025 onwards in response to funding changes.
FPSC will continue to engage with you and with the divisions as these supports evolve.
Doctors of BC, BC Family Doctors, and the Ministry of Health will discuss and address longer-term supports and approaches to issues raised by community family physicians providing inpatient care.
More information:
For more information, please see the funding parameters on the FPSC website, or contact fp.billing@doctorsofbc.ca.
Coming soon: Details on Long-Term Care Initiative MRP payment
FPSC will be sharing more information shortly about the new LTCI Most Responsible Provider (MRP) payment for family physicians who provide ongoing longitudinal care to patients in long-term care facilities and are participating in the FPSC Long-Term Care Initiative (LTCI), but are not eligible for the Longitudinal Family Physician (LFP) payment model.