BC has a lower expands on the types of payments listed in the NPDB percentage of alternative clinical payments than all to include both clinical and non-clinical payments other provinces and territories, with the exception of under APPs and FFS by specialty. [...] As shown in Table 2, Another important difference between our data the proportion of total APP payments (clinical and sources and the NPDB is the absence of payments to non-clinical) decreased by -0.5% (from 20.3% of total laboratory and imaging specialists under FFS clinical physician payments in 2005/06 to 19.8% in 2011/12). [...] Because payments to labora- tory and imaging specialists are included in our data, The proportions in Table 2 include both clinical and the sum of FFS clinical payments is larger than that non-clinical services; whereas, those referenced from reported by CIHI, and the proportion of alterna- the NPDB in Table 1 are limited to clinical services tive clinical payments out of total clinical payments o. [...] APP REMUNERATION TRENDS IN BC 10 UBC CENTRE FOR HEALTH SERVICES AND POLICY RESEARCH Discussion Our findings show that total alternative payments With the lack of a conclusive model of physician remained stable between 2005/06 and 2011/12 remuneration in the academic literature, the results within BC, in contrast to most other Canadian of this study are important to inform policy decision provinces. [...] APP REMUNERATION TRENDS IN BC 11 UBC CENTRE FOR HEALTH SERVICES AND POLICY RESEARCH Conclusion There is stability in alternative payments to physicians in BC across the different medical specialties and types of alternative payments.
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