CIHI provides our stakeholders with trend analyses and short-term forecasts of health spending in Canada. CIHI’s analyses include overall health spending at national, provincial and territorial levels; details of health facility and regional health authority spending; and cost estimates for services provided to patients in hospitals. CIHI also tracks hospital financial performance and spending related to patient care.
Explore information on health spending, including reports, data tables and other key resources.
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Hospital spending
Take an in-depth look at hospital spending in Canada and discover emerging trends using data from the Canadian MIS Database (CMDB).
National health expenditure trends
An overview of Canadian health spending trends, featuring comparative expenditure data at provincial, territorial and international levels.
Prescribed drug spending in Canada, 2023
Take an in-depth look at prescribed drug spending in Canada in 2022 and learn about how different drug classes contribute to current trends in total public drug program spending.
Physicians
Physician data contributes to evidence-based planning and management of the health workforce. How many physicians are there in Canada? What are their average gross payments?
Patient Cost Estimator
Estimate the average cost of various hospital services, costs incurred by hospitals and the average cost of the average typical inpatient in an acute care facility.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) metadata
Comparing countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in the areas of population health, medical services and non-medical determinants of health.