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- A new study says Ontario's access bonus system — meant to make doctors more available outside of regular hours — is rewarding doctors who are less available.
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Jan 4, 2019 · An incentive payment called the “access bonus,” designed to encourage better access to family medicine and discourage patients from seeking care outside their family doctor’s office, may be inadvertently benefiting family doctors with lower levels of access in Ontario, according to a new study by researchers at ICES and St. Michael’s ...
Apr 2, 2019 · Incentive payments aimed at improving access to primary health care in Ontario are rewarding the wrong people, going disproportionately to doctors whose patients are more likely to visit...
- Elizabeth Payne
Physicians practicing in Ontario may be eligible for additional incentives and benefits through a number of provincial incentive programs. In addition to the provincial programs, there may be regional incentives available to physicians setting up practice in a specific community.
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We found that the access bonus flowed disproportionately to physicians outside large cities and to those whose patients made fewer primary care visits, received less after-hours care, made more emergency department visits, and had higher adjusted ambulatory costs.
Apr 1, 2019 · Ontario’s access bonus was ostensibly designed to incentivize access with the enrolling physician and contain ambulatory costs.
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What is Ontario's access bonus?
Oct 1, 2021 · The access bonus is available to Ontario family practices that operate within a blended capitation model of care. In this model, patients are enrolled to a family physician and most physician earnings come from an annual per-patient payment, adjusted for patient age and sex.
