Comprehensive Care Model

• Designed for solo primary care physicians
• Patient enrolment is strongly encouraged
• Regular office hours plus one 3-hr session of extended hours (weekday evenings and/or weekends)
• Sign agreement to join

How you get paid:

• fee-for-service plus some incentives and bonuses for services to enrolled patients

Family Health Groups

• 3 or more physicians practising together – not necessarily in the same office space but in close proximity
• Patient enrolment is strongly encouraged
• Regular office hours and 3-5 sessions of extended hours (weekday evenings and/or weekends) based on number of group physicians. Patient volume may require additional sessions. Each after-hours session must be a minimum of 3 hours in duration
• Nurse-staffed, after-hours Telephone Health Advisory Service provides advice to enrolled patients
• Sign agreement to join

How you get paid:

• fee-for-service plus some incentives and bonuses for services to enrolled patients 

Family Health Networks

• 3 or more physicians working together as a group – not necessarily in the same office space but in close proximity
• Physicians commit to enrol patients
• Regular office hours and 3-5 sessions of extended hours (weekday evenings and/or weekends) based on number of physicians. Patient volume may require additional sessions.  Each after-hours session must be a minimum of 3 hours in duration
• Nurse-staffed, after-hours Telephone Health Advisory Service provides advice to enrolled patients
• Sign governance and Family Health Network agreements to join
• Family Health Networks can apply to the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care for funding to add allied health professionals if they are successful in their application for a Family Health Team

How you get paid:

• blended capitation model i.e.: age and sex adjusted base rate remuneration plus bonuses and incentives

Family Health Organizations

• 3 or more physicians work together as a group – not necessarily in the same office space but in close proximity
• Physicians commit to enrol patients
• Regular office hours and 3-5 sessions of extended hours (weekday evenings and/or weekends) based on number of physicians. Patient volume may require additional sessions. Each after-hours session must be a minimum of 3 hours in duration
• Nurse-staffed, after-hours Telephone Health Advisory Service provides advice to enrolled patients
• Sign governance and Family Health Organization agreements to join
• Family Health Organizations can apply to the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care for funding to add allied health professionals if they are successful in their application for a Family Health Team

How you get paid:

• blended capitation model i.e.: complement-based remuneration plus bonuses and incentives 

Family Health Teams

• Work in interdisciplinary teams
• Patient enrolment is strongly encouraged
• Regular and extended hours
• Become a member of a primary care group affiliated with an existing Family Health Team to join

How you get paid:

• blended capitation model or
• complement-based remuneration plus bonuses and incentives or
• blended salary model

Rural-Northern Physician Group Agreement

• Serves rural and northern communities with a complement of 1-7 physicians
• Regular hours and 1-5 sessions of extended hours (weekday evenings and/or weekends) based on the size of the RNPGA
• Nurse-staffed, after-hours Telephone Health Advisory Service provides advice to enrolled patients
• Sign agreement to join
• Rural and Northern Physician Groups can apply to the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care for funding to add allied health professionals if they are successful in their application to become a Family Health Team

How you get paid:

• complement-based remuneration plus bonuses and incentives
  

Community Health Centres

• Interdisciplinary teams serve hard-to-serve communities and populations that may have trouble securing health services
• Centres focus on addressing the underlying conditions that affect people’s health, such as social determinants of health, poor diet and literacy
• Regular and extended hours
• Physicians are salaried employees of the Community Health Centre

How you get paid:

•  salaried model