A group benefits plan, and/or retirement savings plan, can be integrated with benefits paid by either your Provincial or the Federal arm of government. It is important to understand what these government benefits are and how they impact your employee benefits plan...
Article written by Kevin Routley While most employers are looking only at bottom line cost and keeping their overall rates in check, more often than not, they are missing the true drivers of benefit cost increases. As the City of Toronto’s Auditor...
Canada’s first major biosimilar drug appears to be having a rough start in the private group insurance industry. Meanwhile, it looks like much smoother sailing for public drug plans, which are going ahead with preferred listing status for Inflectra based on a price...
A Quebec employer recently boasted about its unconventional hiring policy – the company has never hired a “smoker” in its 30 years as a business, and its proud of this stance. News like this is mildly shocking in Canada, where the idea of health outcomes, personal...
The rise of ‘generic’ biologics should mean cost savings for employer drug plans Most of us are familiar with the difference between brand-name drugs and their generic equivalents. Basically, the generics are “bio-equivalent” to the brand names and are, for all...
