Longitudinal Family Physician Payment Model

The Longitudinal Family Physician (LFP) Payment Model was developed by the BC Ministry of Health in consultation with Doctors of BC and BC Family Doctors. It was launched in 2023 in response to an urgent need to retain and attract family physicians by making longitudinal family practice sustainable and rewarding.

The payment model is a key foundational building block to help us create a high-performing primary care system and is a step toward helping to make longitudinal family practice stable, sustainable, and rewarding so that more British Columbians will be able to access care from a family doctor. It is grounded in a commitment to increase patient access to community-based, longitudinal family medicine care, and expand primary care capacity across British Columbia. To reflect the comprehensive and continuous nature of family medicine, it is a blended payment model that compensates physicians for time, interactions, and their overall patient panel.