2017 to 2018 Fees Report

Patented Medicine Prices Review Board

The Honourable Ginette Petitpas Taylor
Minister of Health

ISSN: 2562-3958

Table of Contents

• Chairperson's message
  
  
• General fees information
  • General and financial information by fee category
    
    
• Endnotes

Chairperson’s Message

On behalf of the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board (PMPRB), I am pleased to present the 2017 to 2018 Report on Fees.

On June 22, 2017, the Service Fees Act ^{Footnote i} received royal assent, thereby repealing the User Fees Act ^{Footnote ii}.

The Service Fees Act introduces a modern legislative framework that enables cost-effective delivery of services and, through enhanced reporting to Parliament, improved transparency and oversight. The act provides for:

• a streamlined approach to consultation and the approval of new or modified fees
• a requirement for services to have service standards and reporting against these standards, along with a policy to remit fees to fee payers when standards are not met
• an automatic annual fee adjustment by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) to ensure that fees keep pace with inflation
• annual detailed reporting to Parliament in order to increase transparency

This 2017 to 2018 Fees Report is the first report to be prepared under the Service Fees Act. The report includes new information such as a detailed listing of all fees along with future year fee amounts. Additional fee information will be included starting next fiscal year, once the PMPRB fully transitions to the Service Fees Act regime.

I welcome the increased transparency and oversight that the Service Fees Act’s reporting regime embodies, and I am fully committed to transitioning my department to this modern framework.

Dr. Mitchell Levine
Chairperson

General fees information

The tables that follow provide information on each category of fees, including:

• the name of the fee category
• the date that the fee (or fee category) was introduced and last amended (if applicable)
• service standards
• performance results against these standards
• financial information regarding total costs, total revenues and remissions

General and financial information by fee category

General information

Fee category: Fees for processing requests filed under the Access to Information Act.

Fee-setting authority: Access to Information Act ^{Footnote iii}, paragraph 11

Year introduced: 1985

Year last amended: 2018

Service standard: A response is provided within 30 days following receipt of a request; the response time may be extended under section 9 of the Access to Information Act.

Performance results: The department responded within 30 days for 2 of the 3 cases. The remaining request was completed within 61 to 120 days.

Other information: Not applicable