Coverage of Grey Area Services in Four Provincial/Territorial Health Insurance Programs
October 1, 2020
Coverage of Grey Area Services in Four Provincial/Territorial Health Insurance Programs
Provincial and territorial (PT) health systems in Canada provide comparable universal health coverage (UHC) for hospital, medical, diagnostic, and inpatient prescriptions to their populations. Some medical services fall on the boundary, however, in what could be called the “grey area” of UHC services. This rapid review describes how four PT governments—BC, NWT, ON, and PEI—provide their residents with the grey areas of medical transportation services, post-operative rehabilitation services, assistive reproductive technology services, and virtual physician visits.