Pilot project on new doctor pay model failing to get buy-in

An NDP government plan to entice family doctors to spend more time with their patients by adopting a new payment model has so far proved to be failure.
To date, a clinic in Sylvan Lake is the only physician group in Alberta to have signed up to test the new compensation system.
The government had previously vowed to have five pilot projects up and running around the province by February 2017, followed by another 10 this spring.
“Definitely we were hoping for more. We had five clinics initi