{"id":9026,"date":"2025-08-12T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=9026"},"modified":"2025-08-12T23:43:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T03:43:03","slug":"funding-changes-might-leave-bcs-long-covid-patients-in-the-lurch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/funding-changes-might-leave-bcs-long-covid-patients-in-the-lurch\/","title":{"rendered":"Funding Changes Might Leave BC\u2019s Long-COVID Patients in the Lurch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Upcoming changes to B.C.\u2019s Medical Services Plan could affect how thousands of long-COVID patients access care.<\/p>\n<p>Starting Sept. 1, MSP is capping all online group medical visits to just 20 patients, to \u201censure there can still be a one-on-one interaction between each patient and the attending physician,\u201d the Health Ministry told The Tyee.<\/p>\n<p>Most long-COVID care in B.C. is currently delivered through large online group telehealth sessions from the Bowen Island-based BC Centre for Long COVID, ME\/CFS, and Fibromyalgia, or <a href=\"https:\/\/bc-clmf.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BC-CLMF<\/a>, which currently has over 5,200 patients \u2014 with 25 more referred every day, Dr. Ric Arseneau told The Tyee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upcoming changes to B.C.\u2019s Medical Services Plan could affect how thousands of long-COVID patients access care.<\/p>\n<p>Starting Sept. 1, MSP is capping all online group medical visits to just 20 patients, to \u201censure there can still be a one-on-one interaction between each patient and the attending physician,\u201d the Health Ministry told The Tyee.<\/p>\n<p>Most long-COVID care in B.C. is currently delivered through large online group telehealth sessions from the Bowen Island-based BC Centre for Long COVID, ME\/CFS, and Fibromyalgia, or <a href=\"https:\/\/bc-clmf.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BC-CLMF<\/a>, which currently has over 5,200 patients \u2014 with 25 more referred every day, Dr. Ric Arseneau told The Tyee.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/funding-changes-might-leave-bcs-long-covid-patients-in-the-lurch\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Funding Changes Might Leave BC\u2019s Long-COVID Patients in the Lurch<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[83,96,18,11,937,14],"class_list":["post-9026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-long-covid","tag-long-covid-clinics","tag-sars-cov-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9027,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9026\/revisions\/9027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}