Doctors of BC Family want more payment for publicly funded Wasteromi to deal with Vishal Backlog
If you want to get male sterilization in BC, you are facing two options: sit on a weightlist for months, or pay $ 2,000 to go to a private clinic.
Advocates of BC family doctors say that the province should increase the amount that doctors are able to charge the medical service scheme (MSP) for the procedure so that more doctors are encouraged to offer the patient to offer the procedure without any cost.
Chief Medical Officer of BC family doctors, Dr. Renee Fernandez says that there has been a “significant decline” in the number of physicians providing public sterilization care.
She says that the province’s fee model is partially to blame and does not coordinate with the standard of care.
“This process has become more expensive to provide, yet compensation has not kept with providing services we need in our offices.”
While some public clinics produce weightlists for Wasctomy, almost immediately, some private clinics in the BC serve thousands of patients per year and charge about $ $ 2,000 for a process that public insurance reimburses doctors on the base line of only $ 100.
Heavy demand for Wasctomy
A male sterilization is a surgical permanent sterilization process that cuts the habitat defense, a tube distributed to the sperm, Dr. According to Camilla Jeffrees-Chung, a family physicians who are accompanied by their own practice, which also works at the Willow Breeding Health Center in women and male reproductive care.
Dr. Vilo Clinic, Medical Director of Vancouver. Renee Hall says he is surprised by Vasctomy’s huge demand.
Non-profit, dedicated to promoting similar access to reproductive health care, began to provide publicly funded in-funded vasctomy in 2021.
That year, doctors at the Willow Clinic performed 165 Wasctomy. By 2024, he performed 1,230.
“It turns out that the stumble that we stumble was a massive access problem in British Columbia that a male sterilization – and our number has gone up and up.”
“Now we are at a point where our weightlist is so full that we had to close it,” the hall said.
The list is overshadowed by 500 people.
“We do our work through it, and as soon as we open it again, it is filled again.”
Jeffrees-Chowung has observed that patients come from all over the province to get sterilization in the willow: Island, Osios, North BC said it speaks for lack of access outside Vancouver.
“Just this week, I had someone from the Kitimat trip to sterilize a man. I think it could be the farthest.”
Dr. Jonathan is as follows, who run a private male sterilization clinic in Sydney, told the CBC that he leads to the male sterilization processes on the Southern Vancouver Island.
“When I was doing procedures on the medical service scheme, I was doing another job to subsidize it,” Follow said. “The male sterilization business did not pay for itself.”
the currentMore young men are getting vasctomy. Why?
Ian Clements have given themselves an unusual 30th birthday: a male sterilization. He is one of the increasing number of young men going under the knife because they do not want children, pointing to the causes of economy or climate change.
Out of the MSP in late December and now charge a fee of $ 850 for a 10 -minute process.
“I began to Wasctomy in 1991; fee code was $ 98. It is now $ 104. So in 30 years, it has increased six percent. It is getting that kind of rubbish family doctors from the medical service scheme.”
Billing MSP problem, doctors say
The province’s Medical Services Scheme (MSP) currently reimburses doctors about $ 103.81 per male sterilization.
“There is no way that we can do that without damaging the clinic,” the hall said, adding the fee is less than a doctor, there will be a bill to remove two benign moles.
Family doctors who perform Wasctomy can receive a “male sterilization bonus” top-up payment of $ 45.45 per patient; Doctors can also charge a tray fee and a advisory fee based on their practice.
The BC Health Ministry told the CBC that the cost of the fee for Wasctomy has been in line with the cost-living adjustment. 2022 doctor master agreementWhich controls compensation for doctors.
The ministry says that the fee for Wasctomy has increased by about five percent in 2015 from $ 98.91, now to $ 103.81, and the top-up payment for family physicians has almost doubled since 2023.
But the current fee is still not a good enough encouragement for family doctors to perform Wasctomy, according to Fernandez, who said that doctors in Alberta get about $ 80 more.
According to Alberta’s Ministry of Primary and Preventive Health Services, Alberta currently charges a fee of $ 187.72 for this process.
Fernandez said that there were 200 doctors in BC who had provided a high amount of Wasctomy 20 years ago.
Now, there are only about 100 physicians who currently provide the MSP-Christian-funded that in the province, and only 45 per year of them perform more than 25 vestits.
“There are one or two clinics on the island; there are one or two in the lower mainland, and one in the northern BC, effectively, publicly funded three access points in the entire province for sterilization.”
Lack of public providers means that many patients are turning to private clinics.
Private clinic sees thousands of patients annually
Follows, who have performed 18,000 Wasctomy in their careers, are retiring in late August. The clinic was given the CEO and founder of the men’s health-focused poll clinic and the founder. Is being taken by Neil Pollock.
His clinic charges a $ 2,000 for a male sterilization. Pollock defended the price of the process.
“We charge a fee that corresponds to our broad experience.”
The possibility of a clinic is the largest provider of Wasctomy in BC; Pollock says that he and his team have carried out more than 50,000 Vasctomy in 25 years.
Pollock franchise her men’s sexual health business models with franchisees in Alberta, New Breanswick and Australia.
He said that he sees his clinic as a complement rather than competing with the public system.
“We are able to serve the great demand for sterilization very quickly and effectively, and that is why we are able to do thousands of in a year,” Pollock said, “said,” said, “he said,” he said, “he supports high salary for publicly funded doctors.
Doctors say gender equity is important
At the Willow Clinic, the hall said that the lack of access to male sterilization changes women and people that can become pregnant.
BC created prescription controls including oral hormone tablets (“the pill”), transplant and intrauterine equipment (IUDS), Easily accessible through MSP In 2023.
“If the government has invested in providing free birth control to reduce and investment at this time and to reduce the unexpected pregnancy, then why will you not make the male sterilization more accessible if you have a permanent solution?”
