Events taking place around the world today will unite cancer patients, survivors, caregivers, advocates, clinicians and others to celebrate World Cancer Day. Globally, more than eight million…
Digital health platform League has launched a full benefits platform called League Benefits. The platform has been designed to help organizations deliver personal spending accounts,…
More than half (55%) of Canadians are concerned about their inability to meet living expenses should they become impacted by a serious illness, according to…
Ontario is putting in place a number of new initiatives to help prevent or mitigate the risk of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among first responders, such as…
Financial Horizons Group has acquired Odyssey Insurance, a group benefits company headquartered in Quebec. The transaction, which closed on January 1, 2016, involved the purchase of…
Stay up to date on legislative changes that impact group benefits plans across the country with some key dates in 2016. January 3, 2016: Leave of absence…
A special group assigned to help deal with a massive backlog of appeals around employment insurance and other social security benefits isn’t winding down anytime…
KINGSTON, Ont. — Plan members with diabetes who work in Kingston may become part of a unique pilot project in the near future following a gathering…
GroupHEALTH Benefit Solutions has partnered with GMS Insurance to grow its advisor partner network. The partnership allows GMS Insurance to expand its portfolio by offering…
This past week, Canada joined with the provinces to look at bulk-purchasing prescription drugs. That prompted the Canadian Life and Health Insurance Association (CLHIA) to…
A meeting of health ministers has wrapped up in Vancouver, with what the federal government calls a “first step” toward improving Canada’s healthcare system. Federal…
While Canadian employers agree that coverage of prescription drugs is an important part of the national healthcare system, they have strong viewpoints and concerns about…
Xerox has partnered Evive Health to add more predictive analytics to its interactive suite of healthcare solutions, RightOpt, enabling employers to strengthen their well-being programs…
As talks about the future of Canada’s health-care agreements kicked off in Vancouver yesterday, federal Health Minister Jane Philpott announced that Ottawa is joining the…
First Health Care has launched YourNurse, a service that provides a single point of contact to help employees navigate their health benefits. Employees can access…
With drug prices on the rise, you’d think employers would be making plenty of changes to save costs for their benefits plans. Surprisingly, that’s not…
Indispensable and beneficial for some but unnecessary and expensive for others, paramedical services are an integral part of most group insurance plans in Canada. So…
The average cost increases for global employer-sponsored medical plans will be 9.1% in 2016, 5.5 percentage points higher than the global average projected, according to a new…
Stop-loss pools are under continued pressure to accommodate the ever-increasing number of claims for high-cost drugs. The explosion of claims for drugs to treat the…
Digital health technology is growing in popularity, as a new survey has found that almost half (47%) of adults in the UK would be happy…
Tremendous changes in both the pharmaceutical and healthcare landscapes mean that climbing drug costs are inevitable, warned Carlyn Volume–Smith, Alberta Blue Cross Benefits Services senior…
Obesity is a chronic medical condition and a major public health problem affecting one in four Canadian adults, according to the Public Health Agency of…
Thanks to advances in medical treatments over the past four decades, a study from the Public Health Agency of Canada shows that fewer people are…
Chronic illnesses, and the rising costs of treating them, are a growing concern for benefits plan sponsors. At the 2015 Calgary Drug Trends Summit, experts…
At the age of 35, Andrew Gosse was tired of living. A psoriasis patient for more than half his life, he told his wife, “This…