Out of Country Health Coverage

Service offers:

• limited health coverage of physician and hospital costs outside of Canada through the Alberta Health Care Insurance Plan (AHCIP)

Includes:

• insured physician services
• hospital services that would normally be covered by the AHCIP and that are provided in a general or auxiliary hospital

Services and expenses that the AHCIP does not cover include (but are not limited to):

• hospital services provided in a private health facility
• elective (non-emergency) treatment and surgery
• routine lab services received outside a hospital
• food, lodging, transportation, or other costs related to obtaining health services outside Alberta
• health services provided by health care providers other than physicians
• air or ground ambulance services
• mental health services not provided in a general hospital
• publicly funded services (through Alberta Health Services) such as home care, behavioural disorders, and addiction treatment
• prescription medication
• medical / surgical appliances, prosthetics
• experimental or research procedures, for example, clinical trials

If you get medical or hospital care when outside of Canada, you will be responsible for paying the difference between the amount charged and the amount the AHCIP reimburses you.

• Albertans registered with the Alberta Health Care Insurance Plan (AHCIP)

• application found on website
• submit forms within 365 days from date of service

Wait times vary.

Contact for details.

Contact for details.

• Financial Supports - Health Expense Assistance
• Government - Identification
• Newcomers to Canada - Healthcare Supports

Closed statutory holidays.