Billing guide for Canadian family physicians

What the Manitoba Physician's Manual is

The Manitoba Physician's Manual sets out how Manitoba Health pays physicians who bill fee-for-service. It is part of the Physician Services Agreement negotiated with Doctors Manitoba. The current version is on Manitoba Health's website (page CLMST-1).

The main parts this guide cites:

• Rules of Application. The rules that apply across the tariffs. The manual says: "These benefits cannot be correctly interpreted without reference to the Rules of Application." (page A-119)
• Schedule of Benefits. Each tariff, what it covers and its fee. Office and virtual visit tariffs for family medicine are in General Practice (11), which starts on page A-119. Other tariffs family physicians bill are in the General Schedule (B pages). Phone, fax and email work and immunizations are two examples.
• Claims Submission and Payment Procedures. How claims are sent to Manitoba Health and paid (pages CLMST-1 to CLMST-7).

Edition checked

We checked this guide against the Manitoba Physician's Manual, April 1, 2026 edition (with the October 1, 2026 update). The October 1, 2026 update changed two pages, B-38 and N-11. On page B-38 it added one fee: tariff 8694, the RSV antibody for children (single dose). It changed no other fee in this guide. Every page footer in the manual still reads April 1, 2026. That includes page B-38. So our tables show the manual date as 2026-04-01.

When a new manual comes out, we check every page again and update its Last checked date.

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