Hospitalization Benefits Plan

Alberta Hospitalization Benefits describes health law for the province of Alberta, Canada. Chapter 3 of the Hospitals Act{{cite web |url=https://kings-printer.alberta.ca/documents/Acts/H12.pdf |title=Hospitals Act |author= |date= July 29, 2020 |website=Alberta Queen's Printer |publisher=Province of Alberta |access-date=September 10, 2022 |quote=}} is the Hospitalization Benefits Plan.

Origins include the 1919 Municipal Hospitals Act, national Health Services Act of 1944, and the provincial Lloydminster Hospital Act of 1947.Aunger A., Edmund. [https://books.google.com/books/ "Forging Alberta's Constitutional Framework"], editors Richard Connors and John M. Law, [https://www.ualberta.ca/~eaunger/pubs/OneLanguage2005.pdf "One Language and One Nationality", "The Forcible Constitution of a Unilingual Province In a Bilingual Country, 1870-2005"], published by University of Alberta Press, Edmonton, 2005, pp. 103-135. Retrieved March 19, 2007.Choudhry, Sujit. [http://lawjournal.mcgill.ca/documents/41.Choudhry.pdf "The Enforcement of the Canada Health Act"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706185506/http://lawjournal.mcgill.ca/documents/41.Choudhry.pdf |date=2011-07-06 }}, McGill Law Journal, Vol.41 No.2, Montreal, 1996, p. 462. Donations. Retrieved March 19, 2007.

Amongst other things the law defines:

• Insured services
• Entitlement to insured services
• Recovery of cost of services
• Payment for insured services
• Operating costs
• Debentures
• Group contracts
• Agreements
• Use of word "hospital"