Over the past 2 years the Patterns of Practice Committee (POPC) stepped up its educational efforts by writing articles for the BCMJ to address important topics such as billing by locums,... Read More
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From time to time you will see requests for medical inspectors or audit hearing panel members, and you may wonder why anyone would want to be a medical inspector and audit their peers. Inspectors... Read More
It has come to the attention of the Patterns of Practice Committee that specialists may be billing fee items 10001, 10002, 10003, or 10004 and not documenting correctly, or misinterpreting how to... Read More
Fee item 13005 (advice about a patient in community care) applies to residential, intermediate, and extended care patients and also includes patients receiving home nursing care, home support, or... Read More
The roll-out of the GPSC Residential Care Initiative represents a major advance in delivering high-quality care to residential care residents in British Columbia. One of the expectations of the... Read More