Canada Health Act

Marginal note:Definitions

2 In this Act,

Act of 1977

Act of 1977[Repealed, 1995, c. 17, s. 34]

cash contribution

cash contribution means the cash contribution in respect of the Canada Health Transfer that may be provided to a province under sections 24.2 and 24.21 of the Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act; (contribution pécuniaire)

contribution

contribution[Repealed, 1995, c. 17, s. 34]

dentist

dentist means a person lawfully entitled to practise dentistry in the place in which the practice is carried on by that person; (dentiste)

extended health care services

extended health care services means the following services, as more particularly defined in the regulations, provided for residents of a province, namely,

• (a) nursing home intermediate care service,

• (b) adult residential care service,

• (c) home care service, and

• (d) ambulatory health care service; (services complémentaires de santé)

extra-billing

extra-billing means the billing for an insured health service rendered to an insured person by a medical practitioner or a dentist in an amount in addition to any amount paid or to be paid for that service by the health care insurance plan of a province; (surfacturation)

health care insurance plan

health care insurance plan means, in relation to a province, a plan or plans established by the law of the province to provide for insured health services; (régime d’assurance-santé)

health care practitioner

health care practitioner means a person lawfully entitled under the law of a province to provide health services in the place in which the services are provided by that person; (professionnel de la santé)

hospital

hospital includes any facility or portion thereof that provides hospital care, including acute, rehabilitative or chronic care, but does not include

• (a) a hospital or institution primarily for the mentally disordered, or

• (b) a facility or portion thereof that provides nursing home intermediate care service or adult residential care service, or comparable services for children; (hôpital)

hospital services

hospital services means any of the following services provided to in-patients or out-patients at a hospital, if the services are medically necessary for the purpose of maintaining health, preventing disease or diagnosing or treating an injury, illness or disability, namely,

• (a) accommodation and meals at the standard or public ward level and preferred accommodation if medically required,

• (b) nursing service,

• (c) laboratory, radiological and other diagnostic procedures, together with the necessary interpretations,

• (d) drugs, biologicals and related preparations when administered in the hospital,

• (e) use of operating room, case room and anaesthetic facilities, including necessary equipment and supplies,

• (f) medical and surgical equipment and supplies,

• (g) use of radiotherapy facilities,

• (h) use of physiotherapy facilities, and

• (i) services provided by persons who receive remuneration therefor from the hospital,

but does not include services that are excluded by the regulations; (services hospitaliers)

insured health services

insured health services means hospital services, physician services and surgical-dental services provided to insured persons, but does not include any health services that a person is entitled to and eligible for under any other Act of Parliament or under any Act of the legislature of a province that relates to workers’ or workmen’s compensation; (services de santé assurés)

insured person

insured person means, in relation to a province, a resident of the province other than

• (a) a member of the Canadian Forces,

• (b) [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 377]

• (c) a person serving a term of imprisonment in a penitentiary as defined in Part I of the Corrections and Conditional Release Act, or

• (d) a resident of the province who has not completed such minimum period of residence or waiting period, not exceeding three months, as may be required by the province for eligibility for or entitlement to insured health services; (assuré)

medical practitioner

medical practitioner means a person lawfully entitled to practise medicine in the place in which the practice is carried on by that person; (médecin)

Minister

Minister means the Minister of Health; (ministre)

physician services

physician services means any medically required services rendered by medical practitioners; (services médicaux)

resident

resident means, in relation to a province, a person lawfully entitled to be or to remain in Canada who makes his home and is ordinarily present in the province, but does not include a tourist, a transient or a visitor to the province; (habitant)

surgical-dental services

surgical-dental services means any medically or dentally required surgical-dental procedures performed by a dentist in a hospital, where a hospital is required for the proper performance of the procedures; (services de chirurgie dentaire)

user charge

user charge means any charge for an insured health service that is authorized or permitted by a provincial health care insurance plan that is not payable, directly or indirectly, by a provincial health care insurance plan, but does not include any charge imposed by extra-billing. (frais modérateurs)