As part of our current Physician Services Agreement, physicians will receive a 2% increase on all fee-for-service and alternate funded remuneration. This across-the-board approach will help to ensure physician remuneration remains competitive with other provinces. This will help our continued retention and recruitment efforts and to offset the increasing costs of practice.

Your fees and remuneration should automatically increase on April 1, 2025. This builds on a 2% increase last year, as well as significant market adjustments and improvements for many surgical, medical, and family medicine specialists in the first year of the Agreement. An additional 2% increase is scheduled for April 1, 2026.

While this Agreement doesn’t expire for another two years, we have already started our work to prepare for negotiations:

• Over 1,000 members provided valuable feedback as part of our Annual Member Survey that is vital to early analysis and issue identification.
• Economic analysis is underway to compare Manitoba with other provinces.
• We attended a joint meeting with Medical Associations from all provinces to learn more about recent developments and anticipated challenges facing physicians across Canada.

Later this spring, we will be reaching out to form working groups to help guide our work, to ensure we are negotiating on the top issues and priorities for our members. We will also be seeking the views of the physicians of tomorrow, including both residents and students, to ensure the next Physician Services Agreement will help to retain them in our province.

As always, send your questions to our Practice Advice and Compensation experts by emailing practiceadvice@​doctorsmanitoba.​ca.