Ottawa claws back $82M from health transfers to 8 provinces charging private fees

Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos says he’s clawing $82 million in federal well being transfers to the provinces for charging sufferers for providers that ought to have been coated by the general public purse.

Eight provinces will see reductions of their subsequent well being switch from the federal authorities over charges charged to sufferers in 2020 and 2021.

Most of the deductions are associated to charges for diagnostic providers corresponding to MRIs and CT scans.

The federal Liberal authorities enacted a brand new coverage on diagnostic providers in 2020 making certain charges for such checks have been coated by the Canada Health Act’s single-payer coverage.

The Canada Health Act permits the federal authorities to scale back well being transfers when provinces cost person charges for medically mandatory well being providers.

Duclos has additionally written to each province and territory to warn them about a rise in personal charges being charged for different providers, together with digital affected person visits.

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