Social Policy in Ontario

Healthy incentives: Health-care bonuses by province

Posted on January 31, 2010 in Health Debates

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• $40 bonus for each diabetic patient managed according to diabetes-care guidelines (Nova Scotia).
• $2,000 for continuing education on adopting electronic health records (Nova Scotia).
• 25% premium for treating patients evenings or weekends (Nova Scotia).
• $500 bonus per year for signing up 15-49 patients on provincial diabetes registry, additional $500 for 50 or more (Ontario).
• $350 bonus for attaching a vulnerable/complex patient to practice (Ontario).
• $350 for taking on to practice an unattached mother within two weeks of birth, and also caring for newborn (Ontario).
• $2,000 annual bonus for making at least 24 house calls to six or more patients (Ontario).
• $5,000 annual bonus for delivering babies for five or more patients (Ontario).
• $2,000 bonus for providing palliative care to four or more patients (Ontario).
• $125 incentive for each diabetes or congestive-heart-failure patient managed according to guidelines (B.C.).
• $2,100 bonus per quarter for GPs who are part of network of doctors available to do deliveries (B.C.)
• $258 bonus for each baby delivered by a GP (B.C.)
• $315 for management of patients with two or more serious chronic illnesses (B.C.)
• $100 for completing cardiovascular risk assessment of patient (B.C.)
• $100 for developing care plan for mentally ill patients (B.C.)

Compiled by Tom Blackwell, National Post

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