Every 6 months, Telus Health Solutions, one of the largest “drug compensation claims” providers in the country, publish a list of the average dispensing fees for each pharmacy chain for the past 6 months. They operate “the largest private electronic insurance claims network for transporting and adjudicating drug claims and transporting dental claims in Canada”….
Every year, Sanofi Canada surveys a number of Canadians – both employers and employees – on how they feel about employee benefits coverage. The survey is quite informative, but here are a few items that I found interesting: Just 13% of employees say that they understand their benefits coverage extremely well, down from 19% in…
Every quarter, Manulife publishes a newsletter geared for employee benefits plan administrators and advisors. This quarter’s publication included something which caught my attention. As of this fall, for groups that have drug cards (which is the majority), when a plan member goes to the pharmacy to get a prescription filled, Manulife’s system will check to…
I received an interesting email announcement yesterday. “Katz Group Acquires ClaimSecure Inc.” For those of you who don’t know ClaimSecure (www.claimsecure.com), among other things, they’re one of Canada’s largest providers of administrative services only plans. They are also Empire Life’s pharmacy benefits manager. What this means is that ClaimSecure processes a large number and amount…
The last time I checked, we’re up to 22 Canadian insurance companies that provide employee benefits coverage. Keep in mind that Blue Cross operates 6 (yes, SIX) different companies across the country (Pacific Blue Cross, Medavie Blue Cross, Alberta Blue Cross, Manitoba Blue Cross, Blue Cross Life, and Saskatchewan Blue Cross). So, really, that list…
