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Billing Tips / BY: Keith J. White, MD January/February 2015
... on these fee items will not be paid. Always refer to the  Doctors of BC Guide to Fees  and its Preamble for interpretations of ...
Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB April 2015
... care, and over 6 years since the launch of the action, the BC government informed the plaintiffs that “thousands of ... is not the first false start. The laws being challenged in BC Supreme Court force BC patients to wait and suffer in ... action, do not represent the views of mainstream doctors, over 80% of whom supported the Chaoulli v. Quebec ...
Premise / BY: T. Chan, MHsc, MD, October 2015
... 7 ] Wait times measurement methodology and challenges The BC Surgical Patient Registry (SPR) was created in 2008. The ... benchmark times has decreased.[ 11 ] A comparison of BC's performance in relation to provincial targets and ... of 20 OECD countries suggested that higher availability of doctors and number of acute care beds was significantly ...
News March 2015
Are you a physician practising in BC? Are you or your spouse having or adopting a baby or ... Program, one of the negotiated benefits administered by Doctors of BC. In addition to pregnancy benefits for female physicians, ...
President's Comment / BY: Bill Cavers, MD May 2015
... complete. I have been extremely proud to represent all doctors in this province—doctors who are dedicated to their patients and determined to ... some of those in other provinces. I am also thrilled that BC physicians are leaders in the uptake of electronic medical ...
News July/August 2015
... long-term staff to your practice outweigh those costs. Doctors of BC offers a comprehensive health and dental benefits plan for ... . If you have any questions, please contact one of the Doctors of BC plan administrators: Darlene Laird (604 ...
Billing Tips / BY: Keith J. White, MD December 2015
... and notifies the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC and Doctors of BC of the recovery action. A copy of the audit report is also ...
Editorials / BY: Susan E. Haigh, MD May 2015
... becoming the norm rather than the exception, not just in doctors’ offices, but in the public arena—in classrooms, ... ago (Statistics Canada, 2014). Fortunately, as of 2012 BC had the lowest prevalence of obesity in Canada, but not by ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: John Hamilton, MD, July/August 2015
... a partnership between the provincial government and Doctors of BC. Although each of the three committees has its own unique ... Working Group  —Sarah Fielden, PhD Evaluation Lead, Doctors of BC Family Practice Services Committee The power of ...
President's Comment / BY: Charles Webb, MBChB September 2015
To be effective leaders in health care we, as doctors, must ensure that we lead the profession in a time of ... a legal responsibility to act in the best interests of doctors as a whole, but who are elected to act as ... asking for your feedback on a recently released Doctors of BC consultation paper. This paper looks at a number of ...