Employee Health Benefits Review Committee. A committee equally represented by LPA and LPSB members will be formed. The committee has the following goals: ▪ Review current benefit coverage, ▪ Consider available alternatives, and ▪ Make recommendations. The process will be completed within one year of ratification of the existing Working Agreements. Both parties agree that there will be no demonstrable decrease in group benefits. Any recommendations by the committee will have to be agreed upon by both the LPA and the LPSB Until the recommendations by the committee are agreed upon and in place the following shall apply. The Board will contribute one hundred percent (100%) of the premiums for major medical coverage with Green Shield Canada, including but not limited to semi-private hospital accommodation, vision care (two hundred and fifty dollars ($250.00) every thirty-six (36) months, Effective January 1, 2005- Vision care coverage will be three hundred dollars ($300.00) every twenty-four (24) months plus a twelve (12) month prescription change rider), and A generic drug card prescription plan, ($1.50 co-pay fee per prescription) (members who elected to remain on a $10.00 and $20.00 drug plan-single and family respectively-prior to October 1, 1985, may remain with such coverage). and It is understood that a $10.00(single) and $20.00 (family) deductible still applies to some major medical benefits other than the generic drug benefit. and Hearing aids (three hundred dollars ($300.00) every twenty-four (24) months), and Private duty home nursing, ten thousand dollars ($10,000) per disability), and Out-of-province coverage with limits of one million dollars ($1,000,000) for emergency health care benefits and fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for elective care benefits with no daily limit. In addition, the Green Shield Canada plan will be amended to provide for the coordination of payments for out-of-province claims and other major medical benefits as agreed upon and defined in the master policy. Specialists’ fee coverage for osteopath, naturopath, podiatrist, physiotherapist, or speech therapist, shall be $20.00 per visit for twenty
Employee Health Benefits Review Committee. A committee equally represented by LPA and LPSB members will be formed. The committee has the following goals: ▪ Review current benefit coverage, ▪ Consider available alternatives, and ▪ Make recommendations. The process will be completed within one year of ratification of the existing Working Agreements. Both parties agree that there will be no demonstrable decrease in group benefits. Any recommendations by the committee will have to be agreed upon by both the LPA and the LPSB Until the recommendations by the committee are agreed upon and in place the following shall apply.
