Archived information: 2019 Community Longitudinal Family Physician Payment
Please note: The following is 2019 CLFP Payment information, please click here for 2020 CLFP Payment information.
The Community Longitudinal Family Physician (CLFP) Payment recognizes community-based family physicians who work under fee-for-service and who care for a panel of patients for providing long-term, relationship-based care.
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Longitudinal care includes providing patients with ongoing medical care, maintaining patients’ medical records, and coordinating referrals to other health care providers when needed. The CLFP Payment recognizes the additional, non-clinical responsibilities required to provide ongoing, coordinated care for which fee-for-service physicians are not compensated.
An eligible physician will receive a total payment amount of no less than $3,000 and up to $12,000, with exact payment amount per individual physician based on the number and complexity of Majority Source of Care (MSOC) patients associated with the physician in the MSP database.
The CLFP Payment may be subject to business arrangements pertaining to how MSP payments paid to particular payee numbers are split between physicians and clinic owners. In these cases, physicians and clinic owners are encouraged to come to a mutual agreement on how existing business arrangements apply to the CLFP Payment.
The CLFP Payment is an ongoing annual payment. Details for future CLFP Payments have not yet been determined.
For more information, refer to the Community Longitudinal Family Physician Payment FAQs or contact gpsc.billing@doctorsofbc.ca.
Eligibility
Fee-for-service, community-based family physicians are eligible for the 2019 CLFP Payment if they:
- Have submitted and met the requirements for GPSC Portal Code (G14070) in 2019, prior to June 19, 2019, to signify that the physician was providing full-service family practice services to patients and confirming physician-patient relationship with existing patients through a standardized conversation or “family physician-patient compact" in 2019.
- Have 50 or more Majority Source of Care (MSOC) patients in 2018 based on family physician visits provided under fee-for-service.
Family physicians who meet the requirements of GPSC Portal Code (G14070) should submit G14070 on an annual basis to ensure they are considered for future CLFP Payments. The submission of G14070 signifies that a physician is:
- Providing full-service family practice services to patients, and will continue to do so for the duration of that calendar year.
- Confirming physician-patient relationship with existing patients through a standardized conversation or the “family physician – patient compact.”
Family physicians are encouraged to post the family physician – patient compact in their examination rooms and to have conversations with patients to confirm physician-patient relationships. See here for suggested approaches for enhancing relational continuity between family physicians (and their teams) and patients.