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Northern & Isolation Travel Assistance Outreach Program (NITAOP)

The Northern Isolation Travel Assistance Outreach Program (NITAOP) provides funding for approved physicians who visit rural and isolated communities to provide medical services.

The Program

  • Provides a travel time honorarium for approved visiting specialists and general practitioners.
  • Health authorities submit an annual request for visiting physicians to the Ministry of Health.

 

Eligibility for General Practitioners

  • General practitioners are eligible for funding to visit eligible RSA communities where a general practitioner is not available within 105 km of the community.
  • A maximum of 48 visits per community per year may be approved.

 

Eligibility for Visiting Specialists

  • Eligibility for each requested specialty service sought is assessed individually.
  • Specialists are eligible for funding to visit eligible RSA communities where a specialist of the same specialty is not available within 105 km of the community.
  • A maximum of 24 visits per specialty for each community per year may be approved.
  • Specialty services eligible for funding (when not supported by other outreach programs) include:

ENT
Cardiology
Dermatology
Internal Medicine (including sub-specialty services)
General Surgery
Methadone Program
Neurology
Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Ophthalmology
Oncology
Orthopaedic Surgery
Paediatrics
Plastic Surgery
Physiatry
Psychiatry (including sub-specialty services)
Radiology
Urology

Travel Reimbursement

  • Reimbursement will be paid directly to approved visiting physicians by MSP upon receipt of their travel expense form and applicable original receipts for each visit.
  • Travel expense forms and receipts must be submitted before June 30 for the previous fiscal year.

 

Travel Time

  • Approved physicians are entitled to a travel time honorarium.
  • Travel time is calculated from the time the physician leaves his or her residence/office to the time he or she arrives in the community, and from the time the physician leaves the community to the time he or she arrives to their residence/office.
  • Travel time will be reimbursed per return trip as follows:

less than 2.5 hours = $250.00
2.5 to 4 hours = $500.00
4 to 10 hours = $1,000.00
Greater than 10 hours = $1,500.00

Making Requests

  • Health authorities must submit funding requests for the upcoming fiscal year to the Ministry of Health.
  • Funidng requests submitted by the health authorities for the upcoming fiscal year are reviewed by the JSC at the beginning of the calendar year.

 

For travel expenses and claims contact:

NITAOP Program

For payment information:

Health Insurance BC (HIBC)
TFP in BC: 1 866 456-6950
P: 604 456-6950
F: 250 405-3592

Complete Application for Expenses

For information contact:

Physician Compensation
Rural Practice Programs
Ministry of Health Services
3-2, 1515 Blanshard Street
Victoria, BC, V8W 3C8
P: 250 952-2754
F: 250 952-3486
hlth.ruralprograms@gov.bc.ca
www.health.gov.bc.ca/pcb/rural.html

Doctors of BC (formerly BC Medical Association)
#115 – 1665 West Broadway
Vancouver, BC, V6J 5A4
TFP in BC: 1 800 665-2262
P: 604 736-5551
benefits@doctorsofbc.ca
doctorsofbc.ca

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