FULL SERVICE FAMILY PRACTICE FUNDING. 5.1 The General Practice Services Committee will be used to further collaborate with General Practitioners to encourage and enhance full service family practice and benefit patients through increases to the existing $ 275.9 million annual funding level for full service family practitioners, as follows:
(a) an additional $0.85 million per year effective April 1, 2019. The funds identified in this section 5.1 are to be allocated by the General Practice Services Committee to support its work in maintaining, enhancing and expanding the programs that support the delivery of primary care services to British Columbians by, among other things, offsetting utilization pressures on its programs, supporting integrated and collaborative initiatives including change management, identifying and treating patients and communities with unmet needs, providing incentives for General Practitioners to provide full service family practice, enhancing risk assessment and reduction, improving capacity in primary care, enhancing comprehensive and continuous care and improving coordination and quality of care to family practice patients in British Columbia, with allocations to include, but not be limited to, the areas identified in section 5.2.
5.2 The General Practice Services Committee will use the funds available to it pursuant to section 5.1 for the following purposes, among others:
(a) to fund financial incentive programs for the support of full service family practice, including:
(i) improved identification and management of:
(A) mental health conditions;
(B) chronic disease;
(C) complex co-morbidities;
(D) maternity care;
(E) the frail elderly;
(F) the co-ordination of care of patients in hospital or residential care; and
(G) patients requiring end of life care; and
(ii) increased multi-disciplinary care between General Practitioners and other healthcare providers;
(b) to fund, in whole or in part, full service family practice support programs such as Divisions of Family Practice and the Practice Support Program; and
(c) to improve disease prevention.
5.3 In addition to the funds identified in section 5.1, the Government will provide the following funding to be allocated by the General Practice Services Committee to the development of new fees or compensation to support full service family practice:
(a) an additional $12.75 million per year effective April 1, 2019;
(b) an additional $18.00 million per year effective April 1, 2020; and
(c) an additional $18.00 million per year ...
FULL SERVICE FAMILY PRACTICE FUNDING. 5.1 The General Practice Services Committee will be used to further collaborate with General Practitioners to encourage and enhance full service family practice and benefit patients through increases to the existing $190.5 million annual funding level for full service family practitioners, as follows:
(a) $10 million made available effective April 1, 2012;
(b) an additional $8 million made available effective April 1, 2013. The funds identified in this section 5.1 are to be allocated by the General Practice Services Committee to support its work in maintaining, enhancing and expanding the programs that support the delivery of primary care services to British Columbians by, among other things, supporting integrated and collaborative initiatives including change management, identifying and treating patients and communities with unmet needs, providing incentives for General Practitioners to provide full service family practice, enhancing risk assessment and reduction, improving capacity in primary care, enhancing comprehensive and continuous care and improving coordination and quality of care to family practice patients in British Columbia, with allocations to include, but not be limited to, the areas identified in section 5.2.
5.2 The General Practice Services Committee will use the funds available to it pursuant to section 5.1 for the following purposes, among others:
(a) to fund financial incentive programs for the support of full service family practice, including:
(i) improved identification and management of:
(A) mental health conditions;
(B) chronic disease;
(C) complex co-morbidities;
(D) maternity care;
(E) the frail elderly;
(F) the co-ordination of care of patients in hospital or residential care; and
(G) patients requiring end of life care; and
(ii) increased multi-disciplinary care between General Practitioners and other healthcare providers;
FULL SERVICE FAMILY PRACTICE FUNDING. (a) The vehicle of the re-constituted GPSC will be used to further collaborate with General Practitioners to encourage and enhance full service family practice and benefit patients through increases to the existing $10 million annual funding level for full service family practitioners, as follows:
(i) effective April 1, 2006, $60 million (inclusive of $5 million for a Maternity Care Network Initiative Payment);
(ii) effective April 1, 2007, an additional $20 million;
(iii) effective April 1, 2008, an additional $25.5 million; and
(iv) effective April 1, 2009, an additional $31 million; such increases to be allocated by the GPSC to the areas identified in sections 7.4(a) and 7.5, or to any other areas that may be determined by the GPSC.
(b) The parties agree that no further funds will be available or provided pursuant to Article 6.6 of the 2004 Subsidiary Agreement for General Practitioners.
FULL SERVICE FAMILY PRACTICE FUNDING. 5.1 The General Practice Services Committee will be used to further collaborate with General Practitioners to encourage and enhance full service family practice and benefit patients through increases to the existing $10 million annual funding level for full service family practitioners, as follows:
(a) $55 million made available effective April 1, 2006;
(b) an additional $20 million made available effective April 1, 2007;
(c) an additional $25.5 million to be made available effective April 1, 2008; and
(d) an additional $31 million to be made available effective April 1, 2009, such increases to be allocated by the General Practice Services Committee to the areas identified in sections 5.2(a), 5.3 and 5.4 or to any other areas that may be determined by the General Practice Services Committee.
(a) The priorities for the allocation of the funds referred to in section 5.1(a) up to March 31, 2007 will be as follows:
(i) General Practitioners who:
(A) as of April 1, 2006, have provided care and billed the 13050 CDM Incentive Payment for at least ten patients with diabetes or congestive heart failure; or
(B) in the 12 months preceding April 1, 2006 have performed at least five deliveries; have received a one time payment of $2500. This payment was to be funded first from the unexpended portion of the full service family practice fund referred to in Article 6.1 of the 2002 Subsidiary Agreement for General Practitioners (approximately $4.7 million) and the balance from the funds referred to in section 5.1(a);
(ii) General Practitioners who:
(A) as of June 30, 2006, have provided care and billed the 13050 CDM Incentive Payment or the new incentive payment referred to in section 5.2(a)(iii) for at least ten patients with diabetes, congestive heart failure or hypertension; or
(B) in the 12 months preceding June 30, 2006 have performed at least five deliveries; have received a one time payment of $7500 (approximately $25 million expenditure);
(iii) effective April 1, 2006, the 13050 CDM Incentive Payment was increased to an annual amount of $125 per patient. In addition, a new incentive payment was implemented effective April 1, 2006, in the annual amount of $50 per patient, for the guideline based chronic care of hypertension where this is not covered in treating diabetes or congestive heart failure, which will be paid in accordance with guidelines and criteria set out by the General Practice Services Committee;
(iv) effective April 1, 2006, a facility patient confere...
