BC Medical Practitioner Expenditure Distribution by Specialty, 2005-2010

BC Health - Distribution of Practitioners by Expenditure Range and Fiscal Year, from MSP is a dataset from the Government of British Columbia. It shows the distribution of medical practitioners by expenditure range and specialty under the Fee-for-Service (MSP) payment model. The data covers five fiscal years from 2005-06 to 2009-10.

Use Cases

• Analyzing expenditure distribution trends across medical specialties based on the Fee-for-Service data.
• Modeling practitioner count by expenditure bracket over the five-year fiscal period.
• Comparing specialty-level billing patterns within the British Columbia Medical Services Plan (MSP).

Strengths

• Data covers five consecutive fiscal years (2005-06 to 2009-10), providing a multi-year view.
• Published by the authoritative Government of British Columbia under the OGL-CA-2.0 license.
• Platform metadata indicates last update was 2026-04-17 15:28:46.418953.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect temporal bias inherent to the 2005-2010 period.

Provenance

Source

Government of British Columbia

Collection Method

Likely contains administrative data from the Medical Services Plan (MSP) Fee-for-Service billing system.

Time Range

2005-06 to 2009 -10 fiscal years.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-17 15:28:46.418953; freshness should be verified.

Geography

British Columbia, Canada.