Alberta Physician Fee-For-Service Payments and Utilization by Specialty

Statistics on Fee-For-Service Payments, Services, and Patients by medical specialty under the Alberta Health Care Insurance Plan. The data excludes payments for services provided to Albertans while they are out of province or out of country. It is published by the Government of Alberta.

Use Cases

• Analyze payment amounts across medical specialties to identify spending trends.
• Compare service volumes by specialty to assess healthcare utilization patterns.
• Examine patient counts per specialty for workforce and capacity planning.

Strengths

• Data originates from the authoritative Government of Alberta.
• Focuses on a defined population: people registered with the Alberta Health Care Insurance Plan.
• Report was last updated in March 2026.

Limitations

• Excludes services provided to Albertans outside the province or country, limiting completeness for mobile populations.
• Available file formats are HTML and XLSX, which may require conversion for programmatic analysis.
• Specific row counts, column details, and sample data are unavailable for assessing scale and structure.

Provenance

Source

Government of Alberta

Collection Method

Administrative data from the Alberta Health Care Insurance Plan (AHCIP).

Time Range

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Freshness

Updated March 2026.

Geography

Alberta, Canada