Abortion, imaging fees part of $1.3 million health transfer deductions for N.B., N.S. | 24CA News

Ottawa says it’ll deduct greater than $1.27 million every from health-care transfers to Nova Scotia and New Brunswick to compensate for charges paid by sufferers in these provinces for medically vital companies.

The federal authorities says Nova Scotia will lose greater than $1.27 million for charges collected within the province for diagnostic assessments within the 2020-21 fiscal yr.

New Brunswick will lose the identical quantity as Nova Scotia for a similar cause, in addition to a further $64,850 for permitting sufferers to be charged for abortions or different insured companies at personal clinics.

Restrictions in New Brunswick prohibit authorities funding for abortions carried out exterior three permitted hospitals in two cities.

Federal Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos stated Friday that eight provinces face a complete of greater than $82 million in deductions except they implement a plan to finish the charges and the circumstances that led to them.

Newfoundland and Labrador and Prince Edward Island are the one provinces not on the record for claw backs.

This report by The Canadian Press was first printed March 11, 2023.