Incentives News

January 26, 2021

A new GPSC one-time payment with a minimum of $1000 will support eligible family doctors who manage high risk patients during the current COVID-19 and influenza season. The GPSC is providing a total of $6-million for the payments, using unallocated funding from 2020, to...

December 18, 2020

To support interprofessional care during COVID-19, until further notice, doctors can submit 14029 for chronic disease management visits provided via telehealth by an allied care provider. The change is effective June 1, 2020 and doctors may bill 14029 retroactively....

November 23, 2020

Updated Dec 18, 2020 Initially approved by GPSC in 2019, new rules for family physicians billing codes 14070 and 14071 take effect January 1, 2021. Changes include a new definition for Community Longitudinal Family Physician (CLFP) in the GPSC Preamble. Physicians need to...

August 25, 2020

Family doctors are invited to join a six-part webinar series about billing GPSC fees to: Increase confidence when billing GPSC incentives. Better understand correct billing. Better understand fee rules. Ensure comprehensive billing for all services. All family physicians...

July 29, 2020

To support COVID-19 risk mitigation, temporary changes have been made to fee item 00039 (Management of Maintenance Opioid Agonist Treatment (OAT) for Opioid Use Disorder). These changes will allow physicians to bill an appropriate visit fee in addition to fee item 00039...

Jan 10, 2019