Alberta Physician Fee-For-Service Utilization Indicators by Specialty

Select Utilization Indicators by Specialty Fee-For-Service Only provides statistics on physician services under the Alberta Health Care Insurance Plan. The dataset includes average payments, services, claims, patients, and days for fee-for-service specialties, excluding out-of-province and out-of-country care.

Use Cases

• Analyze Average Payments per specialty to identify high-cost service areas within the Alberta Health Care Insurance Plan.
• Compare Average Services and Average Claims across specialties to assess physician workload and billing patterns.
• Model the relationship between Average Patients and Average Days to understand patient volume and service duration.
• Benchmark specialty-level performance using the suite of Average indicators against provincial healthcare targets.

Strengths

• Data originates from the authoritative Government of Alberta healthcare system.
• Includes five distinct average metrics: payments, services, claims, patients, and days for analytical comparison.
• Dataset was updated in March 2026, indicating recent maintenance.

Limitations

• Specific row count, column count, and sample size are unknown, limiting assessment of statistical power.
• Data excludes services provided to Albertans out-of-province or out-of-country, creating a geographic coverage gap.
• The description lacks detail on temporal coverage (e.g., year range) for trend analysis.

Provenance

Source

Government of Alberta

Collection Method

Administrative data from the Alberta Health Care Insurance Plan (AHCIP) fee-for-service claims.

Time Range

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Freshness

2026-03-25

Geography

Alberta, Canada (excluding out-of-province/out-of-country services)