Consultant Specialists of BC

About

Consultant Specialists of BC (cSBC) represents all BC specialists. cSBC is the only specialist organization engaged in high-level advocacy for access to specialist care.

Our work

• Advocating timely access to specialist care for British Columbians.
• New benefits: We have negotiated a competitive medical benefit package and also better rates for applying for Science Research Experimental Development (SRED) tax credits. SRED tax credits help support research many specialists are already participating in.
• We are developing public-facing messaging to explain the importance of specialist care and be more effective in changing government policy.
• Negotiating with government on broad issues affecting specialist practice including new payment models.
• Developing fair income and overhead datasets to help inform disparity assessment.

Our recent successes

• Advocating for and developing the implicit re-referral solution to the outdated referral rules.
• A successful media campaign highlighting the specialist waitlist crisis.
• Leading negotiations with government to reduce specialist consultative waitlists.
• Increased funding for overhead costs through expansion of the Business Cost Premium.
• The first increase in MOCAP since its inception, thanks to cSBC lobbying.
• Taking over management of the existing 10,000-series and 727xx-prefix codes from the Specialist Services Committee so that these codes can be actively managed and increased over time.
• Securing $15 million for a new fund for new specialist communication codes and complex care codes, leading to the development of the new "Text advice code", "Specialist Call Initiation code", and increases in the "Surgical surcharge caps" and other cSBC communication codes.

Challenges we can solve with 1,200 new members

• We need full-time communications and public relations professionals to carry our message to the public.
• Creating a five-year strategic plan.