Specialist rates apply to physicians working in UCCs

April 1, 2014

As you may know, general practitioners who spend 80% or more of their clinical time in an emergency department with 24-hours onsite coverage can bill specialist rates for his/her services for the Workers’ Compensation Board (WCB) of Alberta.

This has now been extended to include general practitioners who spend 80% of their clinical time in Urgent Care Centres (UCCs) with onsite coverage for the hours of operation.

If you qualify, you should inform your billing person to change your skill code to FTER for services provided in the UCC. This skill code will apply to both regular Alberta Health Care Insurance Plan and WCB patients.

To be eligible for the FTER skill code, you must complete WCB form HC-417.

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