Effective 15 September 2009, GPs may bill for an annual bonus amount of $125 for clinical guidelines–based management of patients with chronic pulmonary disease (COPD). In addition to the COPD CDM incentive (G14053), physicians may also bill for up to four telephone/e-mail follow-up management fees (G14073) for these patients over the following 12 months.

Eligible GPs include those physicians: 
• With a valid BC MSP practitioner number (registered specialty 00), except those who have billed any specialty consultation fee in the previous 12 months.
• Whose majority professional activity is in full-service family practice as described in the introduction.
• Who have provided the patient the majority of their longitudinal general practice care over the preceding year, and have provided the requisite level of guideline-based care.

Visit www.bcma.org/gpsc-gp-services-committee-incentive-update [9] for more information.