Hi Tim,
MPI is our provincial car insurance company. We bill them directly.
Invoices are faxed in and they send a cheque. There was a delay this summer
in faxing invoices but they currently have all invoices. I have been
emailing them to Chuck and he has been faxing them in. MPI clients are
assigned a maximum monthly budget and we are paid as long as we stay under
the budget. If we go over, they will make us re-invoice. Each client should
have the monthly max listed in their file. We use that to tell them how
much they qualify for from us in terms of total hours per month.
Self and Family Managed care is run through the provincial government with
funds paid directly to families. Families are given a bi-weekly budget at a
companion rate or personal care rate. Some get a combination of the two
rates. Most who come to us get the personal care rate of $21.40/hour. When
families receive SFMC, they do not have to pay GST on our services.
Families are required to maintain a bank account which the government
deposits funds for private care directly into. We typically do a direct
withdrawal from the SFMC account. In some cases for SFMC clients, we
withdraw the SFMC amount from one account and the balance owing from a
separate account. In other cases, families chose to top up the SFMC account
with their private funds. In all cases, there are semi-annual audits which
families have to submit HCA invoices to the Winnipeg Regional Health
Authority (WRHA), who administers the program. Some families request that
we break the amount of funds being withdrawn down in the notes section of
the invoice. We would have to look at how many hours are being charged to
SFMC (it would be a max of 55/week and in some cases less depending on the
number of hours the individual qualifies for), multiply that out and then
calculate the balance. For those clients I typically put a note on like
this:
SFMC account = 110 hours X $21.40/hour = $2354
Family account= (invoice total) - $2354 = $XXX
Let me know if you have any questions on this or if something isn't clear.
I'll work on getting you set up to the PAD system tonight and we can
discuss.
Thanks,
Lindsey
On Thu, Oct 6, 2022 at 11:28 AM Tim Thomas <tthomas@thekey.com> wrote:
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> Hope you are well. I am trying to help out with follow up on client
> issues in Winnipeg.
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> Can I ask you the story around MPI and Self Managed Care? How they are
> treated and what we need to be doing? Any other clarity would be helpful.
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> Lastly, would you be able to add me to your PAD platform?
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> Thanks very much.
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> *Tim Thomas*
> *Home Care Assistance (Montréal)*
> Tel: 514.726.7647
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