What is the Medical On-Call Availability Program?
The Medical On-Call Availability Program (MOCAP) was created in 2002 to provide a contractual framework that ensures the availability of physicians to respond to emergency situations for patients throughout the province. The current approximate value of the program is $135 million per annum, province wide.
The framework of the program is described in Appendix G of the Physician Master Agreement. Currently, the levels of MOCAP are:
- On Site/On Call: $357,500 for 24/7/52
- Level 1: $247,500 for 24/7/52
- Level 2: $181,500 for 24/7/52
- Level 3: $77,000 for 24/7/52
- Doctor of the Day: $400 per 24-hour period or $146,000 for 365 days
- Call Back: $250 per incident, billed on a case-by-case basis
MOCAP agreements are based on template contracts as laid out in the Physician Master Agreement.
Doctors of BC and the government participated in a review of MOCAP and produced a report in December 2018.