{"id":3688,"date":"2022-08-10T12:12:54","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T16:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anrfmontreal.ca\/?p=3688"},"modified":"2022-08-11T10:23:16","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T14:23:16","slug":"future-improvement-in-relation-to-the-pshcp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anrfmontreal.ca\/en\/future-improvement-in-relation-to-the-pshcp\/","title":{"rendered":"FUTURE IMPROVEMENT IN RELATION TO THE PSHCP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Improvements will come into effect on July 1st, 2023 when Canada Life replaces Sunlife as plan administrator.\u00a0 Here are the main improvements:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Increasing vision care from $275 every two years to $400 every two years.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Increasing amounts for massage, osteopath, naturopath, chiropodist\/podiatrist from $300 per year to $500 per year.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Increasing coverage for hearing aids from $1,000 per five years to $1,500 and introducing a new benefit to cover hearing aid batteries (up to $200 per year).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Removing the requirement for prescriptions for services like massage, physiotherapy, psychological services and speech therapy.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Removing the physiotherapy member-paid corridor and introducing a maximum of $1,500 per year for physiotherapy.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Improving acupuncture coverage by removing the restriction to have it performed by a physician and increasing that coverage from $300 per year to $500 per year.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Allowing foot care performed at community nursing stations to be covered under the podiatrist\/chiropodist benefit.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Improving the Emergency Benefit While Travelling by moving coverage from $500,000 to $1 million and increasing family assistance benefits.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Increasing the Hospital Level I coverage from $60 per day to $90 per day and increasing Levels II and III to $170 and $250 respectively.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Establishing important coverage for people living with diabetes, including increasing coverage up to $1,000 per 60 months for insulin jet injector devices, introducing coverage for diabetic monitors without the use of an insulin pump (up to $700 per 60 months), introducing coverage for Type II diabetes testing supplies such as flash glucose supplies and testing strips ($3,000 per year) and introducing coverage for continuous glucose monitor supplies for Type I diabetes ($3,000 per year).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Introducing coverage for injectable lubricants such as Synvisc to treat joint pain and arthritis at $600 per year.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>For further details, visit the National Federal Retirees website<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalretirees.ca\/en\/news-views\/news-listing\/august\/association-delivers-pshcp-deal-that-prioritizes-pensioners-demands\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Improvements will come into effect on July 1st, 2023 when Canada Life replaces Sunlife as plan administrator.\u00a0 Here are the main improvements: Increasing vision care from $275 every two years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 04:49:45","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anrfmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anrfmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anrfmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anrfmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anrfmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anrfmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anrfmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anrfmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anrfmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}