ARCHIVED - Canada Health Act Annual Report 2004-2005

Nova Scotia

Registered Persons
	1999-2000	2000-2001	2001-2002	2002-2003	2004-2005
1. Number as of March 31st (#).	944,487	947,963	953,385	955,475	956,820

Insured Hospital Services Within Own Province or Territory
Public Facilities	1999-2000	2000-2001	2001-2002	2002-2003	2004-2005
2. Number (#): a. acute care b. chronic care c. rehabilitative car d. other e. total	35 N/A N/A N/A 35	35 N/A N/A N/A 35	35 N/A N/A N/A 35	35 N/A N/A N/A 35	35 N/A N/A N/A 35
3. Payments ($): ¹ a. acute care b. chronic care c. rehabilitative car d. other e. total	812,776,800 N/A N/A N/A 812,776,800	877,019,426 N/A N/A N/A 877,019,426	926,797,569 N/A N/A N/A 926,797,569	1,021,934,504 N/A N/A N/A 1,021,934,504	1,095,584,706 N/A N/A N/A 1,095,584,706
Private For-Profit Facilities	1999-2000	2000-2001	2001-2002	2002-2003	2004-2005
4. Number (#): a. surgical facilities b. diagnostic imaging facilities c. total	1 0 1	1 0 1	1 0 1	1 0 1	1 0 1
5. Number of insured hospital services provided (#): a. surgical facilities b. diagnostic imaging facilities c. total	120 0 0	109 0 0	81 0 0	83 0 0	38 0 38
6. Payments ($): a. surgical facilities b. diagnostic imaging facilities c. total	15,677 0 0	14,627 0 0	10,926 0 0	11,714 0 0	5,531 0 5,531

Insured Physician Services Within Own Province or Territory
	1999-2000	2000-2001	2001-2002	2002-2003	2004-2005
7. Number of participating physicians (#): a. general practitioners b. specialists c. other d. total	829 1,095 0 1,924	920 1,067 0 1,987	865 1,128 0 2,003	875 1,142 9 2,026	904 1,198 14 2,116
8. Number of opted-out physicians (#): a. general practitioners b. specialists c. other d. total	0 0 0 0	0 0 0 0	0 0 0 0	0 0 0 0	0 0 0 0
9. Number of not participating physicians (#): a. general practitioners b. specialists c. other d. total	0 0 0 0	0 0 0 0	0 0 0 0	0 0 0 0	0 0 0 0
10. Number of services provided through fee for service (#): a. general practitioners b. specialists c. other d. total	4,619,083 1,606,842 0 6,225,925	4,498,232 1,645,535 3,951 6,147,718	4,521,991 1,650,685 2,999 6,175,675	4,563,449 1,677,973 2,512 6,243,934	4,629,753 1,924,079 7,098 6,560,930
11. Total payments to physicians paid through fee for service ($): ² a. general practitioners b. specialists c. other d. total	104,587,110 112,250,617 0 216,837,727	102,332,556 117,891,477 175,890 220,399,923	102,555,964 118,414,434 162,779 221,133,176	113,507,874 127,688,914 165,984 241,362,772	120,455,816 133,964,947 250,201 254,670,965
12. Average payment per fee for service service ($): a. general practitioners b. specialists c. other d. all services	22.64 69.86 0.00 34.83	22.75 71.64 44.52 35.85	22.68 71.74 54.28 35.81	24.87 76.10 66.08 38.66	26.02 69.63 35.25 38.82
13. Number of services provided through all payment methods (#): ³ a. medical b. surgical c. diagnostic d. other e. total	5,908,054 317,871 1,514,011 0 7,739,936	5,457,153 985,321 1,121,296 291,352 6,147,718	5,462,682 1,009,997 1,124,792 308,326 7,905,797	6,458,299 1,096,509 1,144,383 324,081 9,023,272	6,572,716 1,117,739 1,191,588 317,419 9,199,462
14. Total payments to physicians paid through all payment methods ($): ², ³ a. medical b. surgical c. diagnostic d. other e. total	not avail. not avail. not avail. not avail. 350,091,235	239,036,017 77,328,861 25,385,064 7,287,248 349,037,190	244,049,190 80,867,051 26,262,276 8,015,345 359,193,862	270,161,897 91,426,158 28,530,589 8,210,021 398,328,665	293,468,260 96,065,557 37,191,400 7,275,169 434,000,386
15. Average payment per service, all payment methods ($): ³ a. medical b. surgical c. diagnostic d. other e. all services	not avail. not avail. not avail. not avail. 45.23	29.40 68.53 57.21 47.78 35.85	29.18 68.49 58.97 53.58 35.81	41.83 83.38 24.93 25.33 44.14	44.65 85.95 31.21 22.92 47.18

Insured Services Provided to Residents in Another Province or Territory
Hospitals	1999-2000	2000-2001	2001-2002	2002-2003	2004-2005
16. Total number of claims, in-patient (#).	2,382	2,520	2,050	2,300	2,368
17. Total number of claims, out-patient (#).	30,086	32,859	30,749	34,425	32,968
18. Total payments, in-patient ($).	10,499,281	9,961,995	8,536,691	12,685,659	15,859,930
19. Total payments, out-patient ($).	3,772,315	4,171,365	4,009,667	4,447,816	4,303,236
20. Average payment, in-patient ($).	4,407.75	3,953.17	4,115.45	5,515.50	6,697.61
21. Average payment, out-patient ($).	125.38	126.94	130.39	129.20	130.58
Physicians	1999-2000	2000-2001	2001-2002	2002-2003	2004-2005
22. Number of services (#).	not avail.	180,299	179,833	187,390	180,897
23. Total payments ($).	not avail.	4,766,189	5,078,794	5,562,125	5,747,516
24. Average payment per service ($).	not avail.	26.43	28.24	29.68	31.77

Insured Services Provided Outside Canada
Hospitals	1999-2000	2000-2001	2001-2002	2002-2003	2004-2005
25. Total number of claims, in-patient (#).	not avail.	not avail.	not avail.	not avail.	not avail.
26. Total number of claims, out-patient (#).	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
27. Total payments, in-patient ($).	1,053,577	735,834	1,000,023	938,092	623,896
28. Total payments, out-patient ($).	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
29. Average payment, in-patient ($).	not avail.	not avail.	not avail.	not avail.	not avail.
30. Average payment, out-patient ($).	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Physicians	1999-2000	2000-2001	2001-2002	2002-2003	2004-2005
31. Number of services (#).	not avail.	2,541	2,421	2,748	2,667
32. Total payments ($).	not avail.	98,461	109,484	121,780	120,977
33. Average payment per service ($).	not avail.	38.75	45.22	44.32	45.36

Insured Surgical-Dental Services Within Own Province or Territory
	1999-2000	2000-2001	2001-2002	2002-2003	2004-2005
34. Number of particpating dentists (#).	55	39	35	36	28
35. Number of services provided (#).	17,525	6,853	4,497	5,188	3,780
36. Total payments ($).	1,467,485	998,692	884,506	939,004	904,283
37. Average payment per service ($).	83.74	144.27	196.69	181.00	239.23

Endnotes

¹ $'s are paid to acute care facilities/DHAs only.

² Discrepancies may exist between data presented here and the Nova Scotia Annual Statistical Tables due to methodological differences.

³ Fee- for- service + alternate funded programs.

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Date modified:: 2006-03-29