- Most commonly used ARP in Alberta.
- Full-time and part-time physician participation is allowed.
- Physicians determine when and how program services will be delivered.
Model Elements
Funding & Payments
- Clinical ARPs provide funding to physicians to deliver defined program services to a defined patient population at a defined site.
- Medically insured services outside the scope of the clinical ARP must be billed fee-for-service (FFS).
Program Services
- Each program needs to define the basket of service that will be in-scope for the practice. For example, a practice may decide low risk maternity and delivery are out-of-scope.
- Program services include both direct and indirect patient care.
- Program services do not include physician on-call availability. Only the actual time physicians spend delivering program services while on-call is funded.
- Program services include any out-of-province (medical reciprocal) patients.