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The majority of Canadian doctors provide care in private practice and apply for admitting privileges at one or more nearby hospitals. Most doctors provide care on a fee-for-service basis. In that arrangement the doctor is paid for each service provided to the patient, rather than earning a set salary or a set amount for each person under his or her care. The fee-for-service format is especially common among specialists and doctors who see patients outside of the hospital. The fee-for-service arrangement allows the physician to decide what care to provide independent of the influence of administrators or insurers. The licensed physician is reimbursed for his or her services through a provincial agency that negotiates a fee schedule with the provincial medical association.

Not all doctors are paid by the fee-for-service format; some are paid a fixed wage, either an hourly wage or a salary. Emergency room doctors, for example, are often paid on an hourly basis. Doctors in their residency (early years of specialty training) in teaching hospitals are generally paid on a salaried basis. In Québec, a small number of general practitioners choose salaried positions in community health and social clinics. In most provinces, specialist salaries are capped at a certain level of income.” (1)

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