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Apr 3, 2019 · 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.
Jan 4, 2019 · The study published today in the April issue of Health Affairs, showed that the “access bonus,” is being paid more often to family doctors in rural Ontario communities who have healthier patients, who made fewer primary care visits and received less after-hours care.
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
Oct 25, 2024 · Nearly 3,800 eligible nursing, medical laboratory technology and paramedic students are training as part of the current Ontario Learn and Stay Grant. After completing medical school, physicians will enter postgraduate studies, known as residency programs, and earn a salary as a postgraduate learner.
Apr 1, 2019 · We used linked population-based administrative databases in Ontario, Canada, to examine a substantial payment called the “access bonus” designed to incentivize primary care access and to minimize...
- Richard H. Glazier, Michael E. Green, Eliot Frymire, Alex Kopp, William Hogg, Kamila Premji, Tara Ki...
- 2019
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.
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Primary care bonus payments and patient-reported access in urban Ontario: a cross-sectional study. Background — Rurality strongly correlates with higher pay-for-performance access bonuses, despite higher emergency department use and fewer primary care services than in urban settings.
