A-2.2 - Act to promote access to family medicine and specialized medicine services

Section 11 Disposition versions

2024-05-23

11. Every general practitioner subject to an agreement entered into under section 19 of the Health Insurance Act (chapter A-29) must

(1)  add to the caseload of patients they provide medical care to only those persons registered in the information system mentioned in the sixth paragraph of section 2 of the Act respecting the Régie de l’assurance maladie du Québec (chapter R-5), which is designed to allow them to find a health and social services professional who agrees to provide medical care to them, except to take over for another physician in the cases referred to in section 10; and

(2)  make themselves available to insured persons, within the meaning of the Health Insurance Act, by means of the appointment booking system mentioned in the sixth paragraph of section 2 of the Act respecting the Régie de l’assurance maladie du Québec or another system whose supplier has entered into an agreement referred to in section 11.1 with the Minister.

The Government may, by regulation, prescribe the cases in which and conditions under which physicians may add to their caseload of patients a person other than a person registered in the system referred to in subparagraph 1 of the first paragraph. The Government may, likewise, determine to what extent physicians must make themselves available under subparagraph 2 of that paragraph. The Government may also determine, in such a regulation, the percentage of a physician’s hours of availability that must be offered from Monday to Friday, before 8:00 a.m. and after 7:00 p.m., as well as on Saturdays and Sundays and prescribe the requirements relating to the use of the information system or an appointment booking system and the information that must be entered into those systems.

2015, c. 25, s. 1; 2022, c. 16, s. 1.

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11. All general practitioners subject to an agreement entered into under section 19 of the Health Insurance Act (chapter A-29) must, to the extent prescribed by government regulation, make themselves available to insured persons within the meaning of that Act by using the medical appointment system mentioned in the sixth paragraph of section 2 of the Act respecting the Régie de l’assurance maladie du Québec (chapter R-5). To that end, all physicians must publish their hours of availability in the system and a certain percentage, determined by that regulation, of those hours must be from Monday to Friday, before 8:00 a.m. and after 7:00 p.m., as well as on Saturday and Sunday.

The regulation provided for in this section must determine, among other particulars, the requirements for using the system and the information that must be entered in it.

2015, c. 25, s. 1.