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Billing Tips / BY: Janet Evans, MD, CFPC, FCFP July/August 2021
... this subject continues to pose a problem, the Patterns of Practice Committee decided to rerun the article. The ... province. While the enrolment, auditing, and patterns of practice of referring practitioners remain under the MPA, the ... sought. —Janet Evans, MD, CFPC, FCFP Chair, Patterns of Practice Committee Billing Tips Laboratory Services Act: What ...
Billing Tips / BY: Janet Evans, MD, CFPC, FCFP September 2021
... this subject continues to pose a problem, the Patterns of Practice Committee decided to rerun the article. In the ... —Janet Evans, MD, CFPC, FCFP Chair, Patterns of Practice Committee Billing Tips Laboratory Services Act: ...
Beyond Medicine, Interviews / BY: David R. Richardson, MD January/February 2021
... we don’t have any general psychiatrists in private practice anymore, because, I think, they got paid so poorly. ... as an incentive for people to be psychiatrists in private practice, that would probably do it. That’s not going to ... work were hiked. It caused an exodus from outpatient practice that is still causing problems for us today. So ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond (Aki-kwe), JD, LLM, SJD March 2021
... therefore application—of what they mean in a practice setting. Essentially, the review found that the ... groups. Solutions: mindsets and tools Antiracism is the practice of actively identifying, challenging, preventing, ... and privilege embedded in their own understanding and practice. It requires curiosity and a commitment to lifelong ...
Billing Tips / BY: Nick Szpakowicz, MD April 2020
... in audits related to your specialty and/or scope of practice. If you are called, the audit will be scheduled ... Committee (AIC) requests an on-site audit of a medical practice, an attempt is made to match the medical inspector with the type of practice being audited. Having a peer physician conduct the ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Judy Dercksen, MD January/February 2019
... attend mental health and addiction counseling. The General Practice Services Committee’s Practice Support Program and website have also improved ... workshops, and telephone coaching. The Divisions of Family Practice website includes a number of resources and ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Paul Dhillon, MBBChBAO, LRCP&SI, EMDM, CCFP, DRCOG, DTM&H(Lon), FRGS March 2019
... Medicine. There is a disparity between the pass rates of practice-eligible candidates and residency-trained ... to preparation for the CCFP exam. Current residents and practice-eligible candidates were surveyed nationally to ...
Beyond Medicine, Interviews / BY: David R. Richardson, MD July/August 2019
... time—I was the first chair of our division of family practice, then I got involved with Shared Care and helped get ... councils and so on. And then the divisions of family practice started up locally just around about the time the ... finish. It was so different for us. You could go do family practice and then go back and specialize later. That ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: David Unger, MD December 2018
... “Safe prescribing of opioids and sedatives” practice standard,[ 1 ] published this year, strives to ... were removed and it is now a standard only. (Best practice musts and must nots .) Language was strengthened to ...
Billing Tips / BY: Lorne Verhulst, MD April 2018
In 2014 the Patterns of Practice Committee published the following information about ... like to avoid.  —Lorne Verhulst, MD Chair, Patterns of Practice Committee Billing Tips Audit red flag: Treating a ...