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Comprehensive Healthcare Plans

Provide your plan members with healthcare coverage that goes one step further. Our basic group healthcare benefits are available for all eligible plan members and dependants, with no maximum age for eligibility. For groups with more than 35 plan members, you may also offer coverage to retirees.

Solutions That Fit Your Needs

  • Plans are available for eligible plan members, retirees and dependants
  • Plan members receive fast and consistent service
  • You may choose to add optional coverage

Our group healthcare coverage options include:

  • Ambulance services
  • Hospital and nursing care
  • Medical travel within Canada when a plan member is referred by a physician for medical treatment within Canada
  • Medical supplies and equipment, including:
  • breathing equipment
  • orthopedic equipment
  • prosthetic equipment
  • mobility aids
  • communication aids
  • diabetic supplies
  • optional medical supplies including incontinence supplies
  • Diagnostic services for diagnostic lab and X-ray services not covered by provincial health plans
  • Dental accident coverage

You may also choose to offer these optional benefits to your plan members:

  • Out-of-country medical care while traveling for business, vacation, or education purposes
  • Paramedical coverage – may include the following practitioners:
  • chiropractors
  • psychologists/social workers
  • physiotherapists
  • podiatrists (and chiropodists)
  • speech therapists
  • dietitians
  • osteopaths
  • naturopaths
  • acupuncturists
  • massage therapists
  • Visioncare – you may choose to cover:
  • eye exams only
  • eye exams, glasses and contact lenses
  • glasses and contact lenses only
  • laser eye surgery (plan members receive benefits equivalent to those offered for glasses or contact lenses)
  • Optional diabetic supplies
  • Other medical supplies including hospital beds, bed rails, trapeze bars, traction apparatus, pressure garments, food substitutes and pumps for tube feeding

Preferred Vision Services

Our healthcare plans include the added feature of the Preferred Vision Services (PVS) program, which provides a valuable discount on eyewear and accessories at registered locations across Canada.

The PVS program allows your plan members to purchase quality eyewear at savings of up to 20 per cent at registered PVS locations. These savings are available on:

  • frames
  • prescription lenses
  • contact lenses
  • lens extras such as scratch guard, tints, etc.
  • non-prescription eyewear and accessory items, at most PVS locations

For more information or to find a PVS location near you, call the PVS toll-free number at 1-800-668-6444 or visit the PVS website at www.pvs.ca

Find out more about healthcare costs covered by your government health plan.

Find out about the other health and dental coverage options available to you.

Contact Us

To find out more about our group benefits plans, contact a representative in one of our regional offices.

Related Links

Provincial Health Plan Coverage

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