Fee-for-Service (MSP) data from the 2009-10 fiscal year provides counts of practitioners, services, and expenditures by practitioner specialty and Health Service Delivery Area. The dataset is published by the Government of British Columbia on the open_canada platform. It includes practitioner counts, service counts, and total expenditures.
Use Cases
- Analyze regional disparities in healthcare access based on practitioner counts by Health Service Delivery Area.
- Model healthcare expenditure patterns based on total expenditures by practitioner specialty.
- Assess service delivery volume based on the number of services provided.
- Benchmark specialty-specific resource utilization based on practitioner, service, and expenditure counts.
Strengths
- Data is sourced from the authoritative Fee-for-Service (MSP) billing system.
- Provides a breakdown by practitioner specialty and Health Service Delivery Area.
- Covers three distinct metrics: practitioner counts, service counts, and total expenditures.
Limitations
- Data is limited to the single fiscal year 2009-10.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- Government of British Columbia
- Collection Method
- Fee-for-Service (MSP) billing data.
- Time Range
- 2009-10 fiscal year
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-17 15:37:20.287571; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- British Columbia, Canada, by Health Service Delivery Area