Facility-based Care

We continue to build on the foundation of the LFP Payment Model, which has covered clinic-based longitudinal care, to develop a comprehensive payment model encompassing the full scope of what family doctors do. This includes care they provide outside of their offices or clinics. Incorporating some facility-based care into the LFP Payment Model allows longitudinal physicians to bill under the LFP Payment Model for care in the current settings (office and home) and facility-based pregnancy and newborn care in hospital, inpatient, long-term and palliative care.

The principles of the LFP Payment Model remain constant:

• Equitable compensation across all services.
• The simplicity of administration–a simple payment mechanism to access and administer.
• Maintain physicians’ professional agency and clinical judgement.
• Physician health and well-being.
• Health equity—so that all British Columbians can access the same high-quality care wherever they live.

The LFP Payment Model for facility-based care includes three key elements that are consistent with the LFP Payment Model for clinic-based care:

• Time codes
• Interaction codes
• Rural Retention Program premium.

Rural retention premiums apply to all time and interaction codes in the payment model.

To access billing information on LFP for facility-based care, visit BC Family Doctors’ simplified LFP guide (login required).

For information or additional questions, please reach out to the FPSC Billing Support team at: FP.Billing@doctorsofbc.ca.