Family medicine

The rostering grant is an annual payment to fee-for-service family physicians who provide longitudinal family medicine (i.e., bill ME=CARE) to help them with overhead costs. The payment is $20 per rostered patient, up to 2,000 patients ($40,000). For example, a physician who has a roster of 1,310 patients will receive $26,200 annually. The payment is available as long as the physician has worked any portion of the previous fiscal year and is still working in a ME=CARE practice as of March 31 of each year. For the first year (2023–24), the grant will be paid out in two instalments, with the first payment coming in fall 2023.

The grant is also available to APP family physicians for the first six months of this year (at the rate of $10 per patient), to bridge the transition to the LFM payment model.

The enhanced compensation in the LFM payment model includes funding for overhead support.

The contract also includes new funding to help rural specialists manage the costs associated with running their practice.

Specialists

See the new Rural Practice Support Program will help cover their overhead costs.