Drug dispensing cost share in select public drug plans Canada 2021

Drug dispensing costs made up nearly 28 percent of total Rx drug costs in Newfoundland and Labrador's public drug plan in fiscal year 2020/21, a slight decrease from the previous year. This statistic depicts the share of drug dispensing costs in select public drug plans in Canada in fiscal years 2017/18 to 2020/21.

Dispensing costs as share of total Rx drug costs in select public drug plans in Canada from 2017/2018 to 2020/2021

Public drug plan	2017/18	2018/19	2019/20	2020/21
Alberta	23.3%	22.1%	21.6%	22.9%
British Columbia	20%	19.7%	20.8%	21.4%
Manitoba	19.7%	19.1%	19.2%	19.2%
New Brunswick	23%	23.3%	22.2%	20.9%
Newfoundland and Labrador	28.7%	29%	28.9%	27.8%
Nova Scotia	21.6%	22.1%	21.6%	23.4%
Ontario	19.1%	19.2%	18.3%	16.7%
Prince Edward Island	26.6%	26.8%	26.5%	26.3%
Saskatchewan	19.1%	18.5%	18.1%	17.4%
Yukon	-	6.1%	8%	6.9%

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Release date

2023

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Canada

Survey time period

fiscal years 2017/2018 to 2020/2021

Supplementary notes

This analysis only includes data for beneficiaries that met their deductible and received public reimbursement. Historical results reported reflect this new approach. Yukon is not reported due to limitations in the available data.

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