TC medical fee

[rotorspeed]

I know this has been covered but couldn't find exact answer on search. Evrytime you get a medical does Transport charge you the fee or is it only if you get the stcker?

[digits_]

Every time

[plausiblyannonymous]

Careful, they may or may not send you a bill. If they don't send it to you, they'll send it to the CRA without making and effort to contact you with your phone number or email on file.

[Cessna 180]

I've been waiting 8 months, no bill yet, nor is it even listed as renewed on the TC General Aviation Online account. Can't pay if they don't bill me!

[Redneck_pilot86]

I've never paid it. Sometimes it is stolen from my taxes. Sometimes it goes to collections, but they don't actually have any authority to collect and if you call them on it it goes away. I'm still waiting on an explanation as to what this fee is for. My doctor does all the paperwork.

[Caterpillar]

Where and how are you suppose to pay that fee? I never paid that fee since I got a medical...

[TSAM]

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[joshiscool26]

They wouldn't issue my last PPC until it was paid.

[Capt. Underpants]

They wouldn't issue my last PPC until it was paid.

TC doesn't issue PPCs.

[Redneck_pilot86]

I've been waiting 8 months, no bill yet, nor is it even listed as renewed on the TC General Aviation Online account. Can't pay if they don't bill me!

This happened once after 6 mths. I was applying for a new job and wanted to make sure everything was in order. Turned out they didn't receive my medical file from doctor. Called doctor, he claimed he did submit and then resubmitted, and I trust him over the goons at TC, especially Ontario region.

I've never paid it. Sometimes it is stolen from my taxes. Sometimes it goes to collections, but they don't actually have any authority to collect and if you call them on it it goes away. I'm still waiting on an explanation as to what this fee is for. My doctor does all the paperwork.

How's your credit rating if it's getting dinged by collections?

Credit rating is not affected by this fee. Twice over the years I've had this conversation:
Hello, we are calling from X agency regarding your debt to TC.
What happens if I don't pay you
We don't have any grounds for followup
Have a nice day.

And then the amount owing resets to zero. As I said, sometimes they withheld it on my income tax return but I'm not going to make it easy for them to steal my money under the guise of a service they haven't provided in 15 years.

[joshiscool26]

They wouldn't issue my last PPC until it was paid.

TC doesn't issue PPCs.

Ok let me re-phrase. They wouldn’t issue me my PPC sticker to let me fly past 90 days until it was paid.

[JasonE]

My medical from October isn't showing up yet on my TC login either. Waiting for the bill....

[TSAM]

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[pecessix]

I just received a mail from CRA about a debt I own to Transport Canada. I wonder what it could be...

I never received any bill this time. The previous years, I would get a bill via email.

[PostmasterGeneral]

I think if the fee was a legit amount and actually used for something reasonable, nobody would have a problem paying it. $55 every year for what amounts to some guy making one mouse click on a computer screen seems excessive.

[AirFrame]

Just because you don't know what TC does when you renew your medical, doesn't mean they're not doing something when you renew your medical.

[Redneck_pilot86]

Just because you don't know what TC does when you renew your medical, doesn't mean they're not doing something when you renew your medical.

What are they doing then? The fee didn't change when AIP amendments stopped being sent out.

[goldeneagle]

What are they doing then? The fee didn't change when AIP amendments stopped being sent out.

I can say with certainty they do more than 'a click of a mouse'. I have on two occaisions had letters of follow up from tc medical folks after my medical. Once it was for a blood pressure anaomoly, and was well explained. It's not about wether blood pressure is low or it's high, it's about 'did something drastic change since the last one 6 months ago ?'. In that particular case, answer was kinda funny, my regular doc was unavailable so I had booked a last minute medical at another place. When I got there, snow everywhere, no place to park, and I was running late. I ended up parking 4 blocks away and running to the office. First thing in thru the door they took my blood pressure and wrote down heart rate. Needless to say, numbers were nowhere near normal. The follow up on that one, I had to have BP taken a number of times on successive days by my regular doc.

Had another time some years later, wont get into details other than to say somebody definitely took some time looking at the reports, and decided on follow up.

[jakeandelwood]

Just because you don't know what TC does when you renew your medical, doesn't mean they're not doing something when you renew your medical.

What are they doing then? The fee didn't change when AIP amendments stopped being sent out.

I often wonder what the hell my taxes are going to, I still pay them though.

[digits_]

TC doesn't work for pilots. They work to protect the general public from said pilots. Yet pilots have to partially fund its operation. Not ideal, but it could be much worse.

[Beefitarian]

Worse? Like they have the doctors grab your nipple and tell you to whistle?

[leftoftrack]

Ive seen that Dr too

[Blackdog0301]

For anyone wondering about the time it's taking for medicals to get processed, they are incredibly behind on processing them. I did my medical in September, and only had the invoice emailed to me, and my account updated in mid-February. So 5 months in my case. I called the TC Aviation Medicine people and they apologized for the delay. Apparently it's country-wide.

[MOAB]

I spoke with TC asking about my bill.

Medical was last July, last week I called TC and they said they were only working on Jan 2019 at the time...

[prop2jet]

Once upon a time there was no fee sent out on completion of a medical. When the fee was introduced, the explanation given was cost recovery for the AIP amendments that were mailed out along with various other materials. Eventually the AIP was phased out and a bound printed copy of the AIM was introduced for purchase. They will probably tell you this is now cost recovery for processing the medical as the fee is tied to the medical. Do two medicals a year and you get dinged 110.

As to the delay in processing medicals, I heard there was a senior management change at TC Medical that had a huge impact on licencing review. I hear they are now fully staffed and the backlog is being dealt with.