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Oct 18, 2022 · The provincial government and the Ontario Medical Association have agreed to decrease payments to doctors for one-off virtual appointments — a move meant to stem the tide of virtual-only...
The provincial government and the Ontario Medical Association have agreed to decrease payments to doctors for one-off virtual appointments — a move meant to stem the tide of virtual-only clinics and encourage doctors to provide comprehensive ongoing care to patients.
Oct 18, 2022 · The Ontario Medical Association calls the rise of virtual medicine during the pandemic a success story. So why have they agreed to cut payments to doctors for one-off virtual visits?
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Until December, when a new billing framework came into effect in Ontario and lowered what health-care professionals can get paid for some virtual appointments,Lowe saw patients on KixCare, a virtual, app-based health-care service for children and teens. KixCare, Lowe argues, offers a way to address health inequities by making doctors more accessibl...
When the pandemic began, doctors across the country rapidly shifted their practices to phone and video calls, rather than in-person appointments. For many patients, it was a welcome change. A recent Western University study found that the shift reduced barriers to accessing care, particularly for people who rely on public transit, and others who ma...
An Ontario-based study published last month in the Canadian Medical Association Journal reported that even though in-person appointments with primary-care physicians dropped by 79 per cent in the first year of the pandemic, visits to hospital ERs did not increase due to an increase in virtual appointments. "We did not find evidence that enrolled pa...
A cross-country surveyled by Kiran gathered information from Canadians last September and October about their experiences accessing health care, and their thoughts on virtual health care. When asked how willing they would be to pay for services offered by new, virtual health-care services that they would otherwise get for free, more than half of re...
Lowe says that it shouldn't be a surprise that patients who rely on a virtual service like KixCare because they don't have a family doctor would use the emergency room more frequently. "The patients who had care with their doctor are, in general, in a better medical situation because they have the luxury of having a doctor," she told Goldman. But f...
The new virtual care model is only applicable to service dates on or after December 1, 2022. For virtual services rendered prior to December 1, 2022, providers may continue to bill using the temporary COVID-19 K-codes and/or through the Ontario Virtual Care Program.
CPSO’s Virtual Care policy sets out expectations for Ontario doctors, with additional guidance in the Virtual Care: Advice to the Profession companion document. You can contact CPSO's Patient & Public Help Centre if you have questions about virtual care that you received:
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This document is focused specifically on clinically appropriate use of virtual care, which involves the clinical decision-making process concerning when and which modalities of virtual care should be used when delivering virtual primary care services.
