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| Health and Dental Choice A
| Health Choice B
| Health Choice C
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Prescription drugs
| All 3 plans include:
- Pay Direct Drug card (except Quebec)
- No deductible
- Smoking cessation medication ($250 lifetime maximum)
| - 80% reimbursement
- $500 annual maximum
- Up to $5.00 paid towards dispensing fee on prescriptions
| - 80% reimbursement
- $1,300 annual maximum
- Full coverage of reasonable and customary dispensing fees up to the plan reimbursement
| - 80% reimbursement
- $2,600 annual maximum
- Full coverage of reasonable and customary dispensing fees up to the plan reimbursement
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Supplemental Health Care
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| Reimbursement
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| Hearing aids
| - $300 maximum every 5 years
| - $400 maximum every 5 years
| - $600 maximum every 5 years
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| Accidental dental
| - $2,000 per fracture or injury
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| Ambulance
| - Ground ambulance service
- No coverage for air ambulance
| - Ground ambulance service
- No coverage for air ambulance
| - Ground ambulance service
- Air ambulance $5,000 maximum per incident
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| In-home nursing1
| - $2,500 annual maximum and a $20,000 lifetime maximum combined with medical equipment and services
| - $5,000 annual maximum and a $25,000 lifetime maximum
| - $5,000 annual maximum and a $25,000 lifetime maximum
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Medical equipment and services
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| Medical equipment and services have a $2,500 annual maximum and a $20,000 lifetime maximum combined with in-home nursing
| Medical equipment and services have a $2,500 annual maximum
| Medical equipment and services have a $5,000 annual maximum
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Orthopedic shoes
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Blood glucose monitor
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Medically necessary wigs and hair pieces
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Wheelchairs, walkers and traction kits
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Hospital bed, oxygen
| - Reasonable and customary services and charges
| - $1,500 lifetime maximum for hospital beds
| - $1,500 lifetime maximum for hospital beds
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Casts, crutches
| - Reasonable and customary services and charges
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Prosthetic appliances (e.g. artificial limbs)
| - Reasonable and customary services and charges
| - Reasonable and customary services and charges
- Breast prosthesis: $200 annual maximum
| - Reasonable and customary services and charges
- Breast prosthesis: $200 annual maximum
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Vision Care
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| Vision care Includes coverage for:
- Prescription eye glasses
- Prescription contact lenses
- Prescription sunglasses
- Laser eye surgery
| - 100% reimbursement
- $150 maximum every 2 years, including $50 maximum per eye exam
| - 100% reimbursement
- $200 maximum every 2 years, including $50 maximum per eye exam
| - 100% reimbursement
- $300 maximum every 2 years, including $50 maximum per eye exam
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Paramedical Practitioners
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| Paramedical practitioners Include:- Chiropractors, including 1 x-ray examination per calendar year
- Registered massage therapists
- Naturopaths and acupuncturists
- Osteopaths, including 1 x-ray examination per calendar year
- Physiotherapists
- Podiatrists or chiropodists, including 1 x-ray examination per calendar year
- Speech language pathologists
- Psychologists and social workers
| - 80% reimbursement
- $25 maximum per visit
- Up to $250 per year, per practitioner
- Psychologist / social worker: $60 per visit up to $300 per year
| - 100% reimbursement
- No per visit maximum
- $300 per year for each practitioner and combined maximum up to $500 per calendar year
- Psychologist / social worker: $70 per visit up to 7 visits per year
| - 100% reimbursement
- No per visit maximum
- $300 per year for each practitioner and combined maximum up to $650 per calendar year
- Psychologist/ social worker: $75 per visit up to 10 visits per year
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Semi-private hospital room
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- $5,000 annual maximum
| - $175 daily maximum
- 85% reimbursement
- $5,000 annual maximum
- Convalescent hospital: $20 per day up to 180 days per incident
| - $200 daily maximum
- 85% reimbursement
- $5,000 annual maximum
- Convalescent hospital: $20 per day up to 180 days per incident
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| | Combined lifetime maximum for above expenses2 | - $250,000 lifetime maximum
| - $250,000 lifetime maximum
| - $300,000 lifetime maximum
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Emergency travel medical
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| - 100% reimbursement
- $1 million lifetime maximum
- Coverage provided for the first 60 days of a trip
- Covers travel outside of your province or territory or outside of Canada
- Available until the age of 80
- If you have a pre-existing medical condition where symptoms have appeared or required medical attention, hospitalization or treatment (this includes changes in medication or dosage), and existed during the 9 months before your trip, expenses related to this condition are not included
| - 100% reimbursement
- $1 million lifetime maximum
- Coverage provided for the first 60 days of a trip
- Covers travel outside of your province or territory or outside of Canada
- Available until the age of 80
- If you have a pre-existing medical condition where symptoms have appeared or required medical attention, hospitalization or treatment (this includes changes in medication or dosage), and existed during the 9 months before your trip, expenses related to this condition are not included
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Dental
To be eligible for dental coverage, everyone on the application must have had dental coverage through your group benefits plan. Also, there’s a 1-year waiting period before coverage begins for restorative services.
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| Preventive services include:
- Examinations and diagnosis
- Tests, x-rays, and lab exams
- White fillings
- Scaling and extractions
- Recall visits every 9 months
- Minor emergency treatment
| Included
- 80% reimbur
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- $700 annual maximum
| Optional
- 80% reimbursement
- $700 annual maximum combined with restorative
| Optional- 80% reimbursement
- Year 1: $750 annual maximum
- Year 2+: $1,000 annual maximum combined with restorative
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Restorative services include:
- Endodontics
- Periodontics
- Oral surgery
- Crowns
- Onlays
- Bridges
- Dentures (and repairs)
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| - 50% reimbursement
- $700 annual maximum combined with preventive
- 1 year waiting period before coverage begins
| - 50% reimbursement
- $1,000 annual maximum combined with preventive
- 1 year waiting period before coverage begins
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