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Sask. among provinces losing health transfer money for charging private fees
Not long after agreeing to a health-care funding deal with the federal government, the Saskatchewan government is seeing some money go the other way.
Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos announced Friday the federal government is clawing back $82 million in health transfers from eight provinces that the feds say charged patients for services that should have been covered by the provincial governments.
Saskatchewan is among the provinces that will experience reductions in their next health transfers from the federal government over fees charged to patients in 2020 and 2021. Most of the fees were charged for diagnostic services such as MRIs and CT scans.
Saskatchewan is getting $742,447 clawed back. Quebec is losing nearly $42 million in health transfers.