{"id":3275392,"date":"2024-09-13T13:05:28","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T16:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/?p=3275392"},"modified":"2024-10-15T13:50:22","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T16:50:22","slug":"chsr-news-september-13th-2024-higgs-government-announces-new-physician-payment-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/general\/chsr-news-september-13th-2024-higgs-government-announces-new-physician-payment-model","title":{"rendered":"CHSR News &#8211; September 13th, 2024 &#8211; Higgs Government Announces New Physician Payment Model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Provincial Government announced a new compensation model for healthcare physicians on Thursday that seeks to combat growing wait-lists and make New Brunswick a more attractive destination for doctors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The new investment, which is a commitment of 18.6 million dollars in funding this year and 20 million next year, surrounds a new provider and patient registry; physicians who maintain their information on the new registry will be compensated using a pay scale that encourages them to take on more patients.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Johnny James reports on what this means for healthcare in the province.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5780\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/NEWS\/2024-09-13-CHSR%20NEWS-%20Provincial%20Government%20Announces%20New%20Compensation%20Model%20For%20Doctors.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('5780','http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/NEWS\/2024-09-13-CHSR%20NEWS-%20Provincial%20Government%20Announces%20New%20Compensation%20Model%20For%20Doctors.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_audio.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"23px\" height=\"24px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/NEWS\/2024-09-13-CHSR%20NEWS-%20Provincial%20Government%20Announces%20New%20Compensation%20Model%20For%20Doctors.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=3275392-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/NEWS\/2024-09-13-CHSR%20NEWS-%20Provincial%20Government%20Announces%20New%20Compensation%20Model%20For%20Doctors.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"2024-09-13-CHSR%20NEWS-%20Provincial%20Government%20Announces%20New%20Compensation%20Model%20For%20Doctors.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/feed\/podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/subscribe-to-podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Provincial Government announced a new compensation model for healthcare physicians on Thursday that seeks to combat growing wait-lists and make New Brunswick a more attractive destination for doctors. The new investment, which is a commitment of 18.6 million dollars in funding this year and 20 million next year, surrounds a new provider and patient<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"excerpt-more blog-excerpt\" href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/general\/chsr-news-september-13th-2024-higgs-government-announces-new-physician-payment-model\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5782\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/NEWS\/2024-09-13-CHSR%20NEWS-%20Provincial%20Government%20Announces%20New%20Compensation%20Model%20For%20Doctors.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('5782','http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/NEWS\/2024-09-13-CHSR%20NEWS-%20Provincial%20Government%20Announces%20New%20Compensation%20Model%20For%20Doctors.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_audio.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"23px\" height=\"24px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/NEWS\/2024-09-13-CHSR%20NEWS-%20Provincial%20Government%20Announces%20New%20Compensation%20Model%20For%20Doctors.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=3275392-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/NEWS\/2024-09-13-CHSR%20NEWS-%20Provincial%20Government%20Announces%20New%20Compensation%20Model%20For%20Doctors.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"2024-09-13-CHSR%20NEWS-%20Provincial%20Government%20Announces%20New%20Compensation%20Model%20For%20Doctors.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/feed\/podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/subscribe-to-podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":3275684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12140,1,13495],"tags":[13510,13542,293,3234,590],"class_list":["post-3275392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chsr-news","category-general","category-ljinews","tag-blaine-higgs","tag-doctors","tag-fredericton","tag-healthcare","tag-new-brunswick"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/MG_6286-scaled.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3275392"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3275606,"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275392\/revisions\/3275606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3275684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3275392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3275392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3275392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}