Step 1: Submit Expression of Interest
Family physicians, residents, and medical students who are interested in participating in or learning more about the Blended Capitation Program are kindly asked to submit an Expression of Interest.
We truly appreciate your interest and look forward to supporting you as you explore what the program has to offer!
To submit your expression of interest, please click here.
Step 2: Meeting to Learn More About the Program (Recommended)
Once the Program has received your expression of interest, you will be invited to meet with a member of our team. This meeting will provide an opportunity to learn more about the Blended Capitation Program and to have any questions you may have addressed. While participation in this meeting is not mandatory, we strongly encourage you to attend.
Step 3: Complete Practice Profile Form
Physicians who have submitted an expression of interest will be invited to complete a practice profile used by the Family Practice Renewal Program (FPRP) Blended Capitation Program to inform eligibility, readiness, and customized support for interested physicians. The practice profile gathers information about you and your practice that will be essential to building the support you need to be successful. If there are follow-up questions relating to your practice profile, the FPRP will contact you directly.
Step 4: Meeting to Discuss Income Projections (Recommended)
The FPRP launched an advisory service to support physicians who wish to explore what moving to the Blended Capitation Model means for their individual practices. Services consist of a consultant (Barbara Molgaard Blake) with whom you can book a meeting to explore how you can use your EMR data to define your panel of patients, predict your future income, and answer any questions you may have on the Model. This information can help inform your decision on whether to move to Blended Capitation.
Please visit the booking website to book an appointment with the Blended Capitation Advisory Consultant (Barbara Molgaard Blake).
Step 5: Eligibility Status and Income Floor Calculations
Physicians who have already completed an expression of interest and subsequently submitted their practice profile to the FPRP can expect an update on their eligibility status within a few weeks. Once eligibility is confirmed, FPRP will send an email to each eligible physician to confirm the income floor with applicants and the Department of Health and Community Services prior to issuing letters of agreement for enrollment in the new payment model. The email sent by FPRP will contain a link to an Income Floor Decision Form; please use the form to indicate your response to your calculation. You may choose to accept the calculation or request a review of your Income Floor.
If you indicate on the Income Decision Form that you would like a review of your Income Floor, you will be contacted by FPRP program staff to book a session to review your request and to prepare any relevant documentation for submission for reconsideration. A session with the Blended Capitation Advisor is mandatory prior to having any review of your Income Floor completed.
Your agreement to the income floor calculation will be required prior to issuance of a letter agreement for enrollment in the new payment model (Step 7).
Step 6: Meeting to Review Key Components of Schedule R and the Blended Capitation Model (Recommended)
Once income decisions have been received from all physicians within your blended capitation group, your group will be invited to meet with a Blended Capitation Program Specialist. This meeting will provide an opportunity to review key components of the Blended Capitation Model (BCM) and to address any questions you may have.
While attendance is not mandatory, we strongly encourage your participation.
Step 7: Letter Agreement Review and Execution
The acceptance date into the Blended Capitation Program is the date the signed Letter Agreement for each physician in a group are received by FPRP. All of the initial members of a group will have the same acceptance date. Please note that an acceptance date may not be the date that a physician signed their individual letter agreement.
When Blended Capitation Groups (BCGs) are issued letter agreements for review and execution, they have six months for at least three physicians within the group to submit their signed letter agreements and initialed appendices to FPRP. After six months the letter agreements will be void.
Step 8: Grants and Stipends Released
Grants and stipends will be authorized for payment once all physicians within a BCG submit their sign letter agreements.
On the acceptance date of a newly-established Group, each member of the Group will be entitled to receive:
On the acceptance date of an individual physician who is joining an established Group, the physician will be entitled to receive from the Government a transition grant of $11,250. The $10,000 Start-Up Grant is not available to physicians joining an established Group i.e., a Group that has been billing under the BCM for 18 months or longer.
For questions, please contact the Blended Capitation Program at bcp@nlma.nl.ca