Fees and payment methods

All family medicine codes include work in: private offices, CLSC, hospitals or wards, home care, nursing homes, chronic/long-term care facilities, and walk-in/urgent care clinics.

• If your work is primarily in physical medicine and rehabilitation, choose code 27.
• If your work is primarily in geriatrics or palliative medicine, choose code 29.
• If your work is restricted to occupational medicine, choose code 51.
• If your work is restricted to minor cosmetic procedures, choose code 37.

All family medicine codes include work in: private offices, CLSC, hospitals or wards, home care, nursing homes, chronic/long-term care facilities, and walk-in/urgent care clinics.

• If your work is primarily in the emergency department, choose code 82.

All family medicine codes include work in: private offices, CLSC, hospitals or wards, home care, nursing homes, chronic/long-term care facilities, and walk-in/urgent care clinics.

All family medicine codes include work in: private offices, CLSC, hospitals or wards, home care, nursing homes, chronic/long-term care facilities, and walk-in/urgent care clinics.

Residents and fellows registered in a postgraduate medical education program, international medical graduates registered in a program to obtain a licence for independent practice, and fellows and physicians pursuing a structured university affiliated program.

• Includes extra resident shifts but will not include CMPA assistance with medico-legal difficulties arising from independent practice of medicine outside the program.

Extracurricular (outside of a postgraduate training program) practice of medicine by residents and fellows registered in a full-time postgraduate medical education program.

• Generally includes eligibility for CMPA assistance with medico-legal difficulties arising from independent practice of medicine outside of the program whether remunerated or not.
• Residents and fellows who moonlight must hold licensure or registration acceptable to the regulatory authority (College) in the jurisdiction where the moonlighting takes place.
• Residents and fellows who limit their clinical activities to moonlighting (e.g. locum) for more than 14 consecutive days must change to a practising physician code.

• Excludes the U.S., all U.S. territories, and all other countries where the U.S. legal system is applied.
• There is a minimum period of one month and a maximum period of 12 months.
• Members must confirm eligibility for assistance with the CMPA prior to leaving Canada.

• Exclusive to members who only maintain a clinical teaching role within Canada.
• You must not be in practice, make clinical decisions, write prescriptions, or undertake medical administrative work.
• You may have contact with patients only for the purpose of clinical teaching, but without involvement in patient care.

• Generally includes eligibility for CMPA assistance where medical input is used but will generally not include eligibility for CMPA assistance in matters related to non-medical acts performed in administrative roles, such as human resource matters or contractual issues.

•  If your work is primarily in palliative medicine, geriatrics, or long-term care, choose code 29.

• Includes work in long-term care.

• Includes assistance at surgery, pre/postoperative care.
• Must not include CCU, ICU, NICU work, or emergency department shifts or consultation as part of specialist services.
• Must not include labour and delivery, independent surgical practice, or fracture care.
• This code is not appropriate for specialists or family physicians who also have a practice or work at a walk-in family-practice clinic.
• This code is not appropriate for residents and fellows.

• Includes shifts in the emergency department of a psychiatric hospital.

• Includes infertility treatments.

• If your primary work is a subspecialty, choose the code of your subspecialty.

• If your work is primarily in emergency medicine, choose code 82.
• If your work is primarily in developmental pediatrics, choose code 30.

• Includes postoperative orders as part of surgical assistance duties only.
• If your work is on the ward, choose code 31.

• Appropriate for physicians whose practice is restricted to minor cosmetic procedures that are consistent with their specialty training and that they can perform in an office setting under local anesthetic.
• If your work is restricted to office gynecology or obstetrics, choose code 39.

• Includes cosmetic procedures restricted to the head and the neck.

• If your work is restricted to office gynecology or obstetrics, choose code 39.