Questions and Answers well-nigh Health Intendance Coverage

This page outlines benefits administered by the Insured Benefits Branch of Manitoba Health and also provides information on eligibility and registration. Please click on any of the questions below:

Eligibility
  • Am I eligible for coverage?
  • I'm new to Manitoba. How exercise I utilize for coverage?
  • I'g new to Canada. How do I apply for coverage?
  • I lost my Manitoba Health Bill of fare. How do I supervene upon it?
  • How do I report changes to my registration data?
Hospital/Medical Coverage in Manitoba
  • What medical services are insured by Manitoba Health?
  • Which hospital services are insured?
  • What insured benefits are bachelor to personal care domicile residents?
  • What health services are not insured?
  • If I need an ambulance, is it covered by Manitoba Health?
  • Am I eligible for the Northern Patient Transportation Program?
Moving Temporarily (Domestic Students, Travel, Employment)
  • I will be travelling outside of Manitoba. What exercise I have to do to maintain my Manitoba Health coverage if I will be temporarily residing outside of Manitoba or Canada for an extended menstruum, and plan on returning to reside in Manitoba? (Example: Extended vacation or travel)
Out of Land Referrals
  • What if I require medical intendance that is not available in Manitoba or Canada?
Emergency Care or Medical Attending Outside of Manitoba or Canada
  • What if I accept to encounter a doctor while in another province?
  • Am I covered for emergency intendance exterior of Canada?
Moving Permanently
  • I'm moving away from Manitoba permanently. Am I still covered past Manitoba Health?

Am I eligible for coverage?

To be eligible for Manitoba Health coverage you must:

  • Be a Canadian citizen or;
  • Take Immigration condition as outlined in The Health Services Insurance Deed:
    • Permanent Residents
    • Work Permit holders and their spouse/dependants (Permit validity periods apply)
  • Plant a permanent residence in Manitoba, and
  • Reside (physically) in Manitoba half dozen months in a calendar year

The following are not eligible for coverage:

  • Tourists
  • Transients
  • Visitors
  • Domestic students temporarily absent-minded from other provinces and territories in Canada to nourish educational institutions in Manitoba

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I'm new to Manitoba. How practise I apply for coverage?

If you are eligible (i.eastward., legally entitled to be in Canada and intend on living in Manitoba for at least 183 days of the yr), coverage will begin on the outset day of the third month after your inflow in Manitoba. For example, if y'all arrive on Apr 29, Apr volition count as the first month, with May and June every bit the following two. Therefore, in this case your coverage would brainstorm July one.

When you lot register, yous will need to:

  • Complete a Manitoba Health Registration Form
  • Provide your previous province'due south/territory's health carte number
  • Provide valid proof of legal status in Canada (i.eastward. Re-create of Canadian Passport, Canadian Birth Certificate, Canadian Citizenship Card, Document of Indian Status or Permanent Resident Confirmation Card (copy of both sides)

AND

Provide proof of residence in Manitoba: 6 months (183 days) in a calendar twelvemonth.

How to Prove Your Residence in Manitoba

Please provide any one of these documents, discipline to the documents being acceptable to Health:

  • Signed mortgage understanding
  • Signed long term rental or lease agreement (6 months or more)
  • Electric current Employment Confirmation (dated alphabetic character from employer on company letterhead)
  • Notarized alphabetic character from the homeowner or leaseholder stating: (1) names of the applicants for Manitoba health coverage living with them in the residence; and (ii) length of stay
  • Letter from a Resettlement Assist Program (RAP) providers/Letter of the alphabet from Sponsorship Agreement Holders, regarding the applicant's residence in Manitoba

OR

Any 2 of these documents, subject field to the documents existence acceptable to Wellness:

  • Utility Bill – phone, cablevision/satellite TV, gas, h2o/sewer (not older than 2 months)
  • Insurance policy (home or tenant)
  • Belongings Tax Bill (electric current twelvemonth)
  • Valid Manitoba Driver's License
  • Valid Manitoba Motor Vehicle registration
  • Confirmation of attendance from a schoolhouse, higher or university (not older than ii months)
  • Revenue Canada Income Tax Assessment (current or previous year) showing Manitoba every bit residence
  • Social Assist Benefit Confirmation
  • Employment and Income Assistance Statement of Benefits
  • Kid Tax Benefit argument
  • Canadian Pension Program statement of contributions or statement of benefits
  • Old Age Security Statement

Until your health coverage begins you should maintain your coverage with your previous health program.

Please report changes such as a new address, birth, adoption, death, marriage, divorce, or legal separation to the Insured Benefits Branch. Documentation is required for some changes.

Where tin can I register for Manitoba Health coverage?

Manitoba residents are encouraged to submit requests to Manitoba Health via email, fax, and post.

  • gov.mb.ca/wellness/
  • 204-786-7101 or toll free at 1-800-392-1207
  • Fax: 204-783-2171 or cost free at ane-866-608-2983
  • insuredben@gov.mb.ca

If in-person service is required, ane person per household to attend the office is preferred.

** Now available** A secure drop off box located in the role at 300 Carlton St. for Manitoba Health Registration forms and supporting documents, requests to make changes to the health card and Pharmacare applications.

""Registration and Client Services
Manitoba Wellness

300 Carlton Street
Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 3M9
Business organisation hours: Monday to Friday eight:30 to 16:thirty
For more than information telephone call: 204-786-7101
Fax:  204-783-2171
Toll complimentary: one-800-392-1207
TDD/TTY:  204-774-8618
TDD/TTY Relay Service exterior Winnipeg:  711 or 1-800-855-0511

Registration forms may exist obtained here.

or

Bilingual Service Center
Principal floor, 170 Goulet St.
Winnipeg MB

or

Rural areas: Contact the city or municipal office in your area, or visit the Bilingual Service Center nearest you:

51 Rogers St
Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes MB

Unit A, xxx Dawson Rd
Ste Anne MB

Recreational Centre on Hwy half-dozen
St. Laurent MB

427 Sabourin St
St-Pierre-Jolys MB

Remember: It is an offence to permit anyone, other than those listed on your registration certificate, to apply your document.

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I'm new to Canada. How exercise I apply for coverage?

If you lot are moving to or returning to Manitoba from outside of Canada, eligibility is based on proof of your legal status in Canada and your residence in Manitoba.

Who is eligible for Manitoba Health coverage?

Returning Canadians

Y'all are eligible for coverage the mean solar day you lot arrive in Manitoba when proof of your Canadian citizenship, arrival appointment and residence status are provided.

Permanent Resident

You lot are eligible for coverage on your date of arrival in Manitoba when proof of Permanent Resident Status is provided or on the appointment Permanent Resident Status is granted.

Work Permit

If your Work Permit is valid for at to the lowest degree 12 months in Manitoba, you and whatsoever family members listed on the Work Allow are eligible for coverage as of the date it was issued. If your Work Permit is less than 12 months, y'all are not eligible until you receive an extension allowing you to stay in Manitoba for at least 12 months. You will then be covered as of the date of the extension.

Study Permit

Constructive September 1, 2018, individuals with a Study Permit from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) are no longer eligible for wellness insurance coverage through Manitoba Health (Health).

Company Record

You are not eligible for coverage unless you lot are accompanying a spouse or parent who has a Work Let valid for 12 months or more. The Visitor Record must be valid for at least 183 days. Dependants who reach the age of 18 must have a Piece of work Permit to be eligible for further benefits.

When yous register, you lot will need to:

  • Complete a Manitoba Health Registration Form
  • Provide your previous province's/territory'south wellness carte number
  • Provide valid proof of legal status in Canada (i.east. Copy of Canadian Passport, Canadian Birth Certificate, Canadian Citizenship Card, Document of Indian Status or Permanent Resident Confirmation Menu (copy of both sides)

AND

Provide proof of residence in Manitoba: vi months (183 days) in a calendar year.

How to Testify Your Residence in Manitoba

Please provide any one of these documents:

  • Signed mortgage agreement
  • Signed long term rental or lease agreement (6 months or more than)
  • Current Employment Confirmation (dated letter from employer on company letterhead)
  • Notarized letter from the homeowner or addressee stating: (ane) names of the applicants for Manitoba health coverage living with them in the residence; and (ii) length of stay
  • Letter from a Resettlement Assistance Program (RAP) providers/Letter from Sponsorship Agreement Holders, regarding the applicant's residence in Manitoba

OR

Any 2 of these documents, subject to the documents being acceptable to Health:

  • Utility Pecker – telephone, cable/satellite TV, gas, water/sewer (not older than ii months)
  • Insurance policy (habitation or tenant)
  • Property Tax Neb (current yr)
  • Valid Manitoba Driver's License
  • Valid Manitoba Motor Vehicle registration
  • Confirmation of attendance from a school, college or academy (not older than 2 months)
  • Revenue Canada Income Tax Assessment (current or previous yr) showing Manitoba as residence
  • Social Help Benefit Confirmation
  • Employment and Income Help Statement of Benefits
  • Child Tax Benefit argument
  • Canadian Alimony Plan statement of contributions or statement of benefits
  • One-time Historic period Security Statement

Please report changes such as a new accost, birth, adoption, death, marriage, divorce, or legal separation to the Insured Benefits Branch.  Documentation is required for some changes.

Where tin can I register for Manitoba Health coverage?

Manitoba residents are encouraged to submit requests to Manitoba Wellness via email, fax, and mail.

  • gov.mb.ca/wellness/
  • 204-786-7101 or price free at ane-800-392-1207
  • Fax: 204-783-2171 or toll free at i-866-608-2983
  • insuredben@gov.mb.ca

If in-person service is required, i person per household to attend the office is preferred.

** At present available** A secure drib off box located in the office at 300 Carlton St. for Manitoba Health Registration forms and supporting documents, requests to brand changes to the health card and Pharmacare applications.

Registration and Client Services
Manitoba Health
300 Carlton Street
Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 3M9
Business hours: Monday to Friday 8:thirty to 16:30
For more data phone call: 204-786-7101
Fax:  204-783-2171
Cost free: 1-800-392-1207
TDD/TTY:  204-774-8618
TDD/TTY Relay Service outside Winnipeg:  711 or 1-800-855-0511

Registration forms may exist obtained here.

or

Bilingual Service Centre
Main floor, 170 Goulet St.
Winnipeg MB

or

Rural areas: Contact the city or municipal office in your area, or visit the Bilingual Service Centre nearest you:

51 Rogers St
Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes MB

Unit A, 30 Dawson Rd
Ste Anne MB

Recreational Centre on Hwy six
St. Laurent MB

427 Sabourin St
St-Pierre-Jolys MB

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I lost my Manitoba Health Card. How do I replace it?

If your Manitoba Health carte is lost, stolen, or damaged, please contact the Insured Benefits Co-operative immediately for replacement, or apply online using the eNotice of Change form.

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How exercise I report changes to my registration information?

Please report changes such every bit a new address, nativity, gender, adoption, death, marriage, divorce, or legal separation to the Insured Benefits Branch. Documentation is required for some changes.

Changing your sexual activity designation on your health card

A Manitoba resident may request the change to their Manitoba wellness card. This tin be washed when a health carte is issued at birth, or anytime thereafter by contacting Manitoba Health, Registration and Client Services office.

In order to make the modify to your Manitoba health card, please complete an eNotice of Change form and provide a photocopy of your Canadian Birth Certificate.

Dealing with Decease

In the event of the expiry of a Manitoba resident, please study the expiry to Manitoba Wellness. Next of kin of the deceased, an individual belongings a power of attorney, or an executor or administrator of the deceased's manor may inform Manitoba Wellness of a death by providing a photocopy of the death certificate or a funeral manager's certificate.

If a Manitoba resident dies in another Canadian province, Manitoba Health will require the adjacent of kin or ane of the above mentioned legal representatives to provide the required documentation confirming death to Manitoba Health, in social club to ensure that the deceased's data is changed in the Manitoba Health registration database.

Please study changes to your registration information to:

Registration and Client Services
Manitoba Wellness
300 Carlton Street
Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 3M9
Business hours: Monday to Fri 8:30 to sixteen:30
For more than information call: 204-786-7101
Fax:  204-783-2171
Toll free: 1-800-392-1207
TDD/TTY:  204-774-8618
TDD/TTY Relay Service exterior Winnipeg:  711 or 1-800-855-0511

Registration forms may be obtained here.

or

Bilingual Service Centre
Main floor, 170 Goulet St.
Winnipeg MB

or

Rural areas: Contact the city or municipal office in your area, or visit the Bilingual Service Center nearest y'all:

51 Rogers St
Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes MB

Unit A, 30 Dawson Rd
Ste Anne MB

Recreational Middle on Hwy 6
St. Laurent MB

427 Sabourin St
St-Pierre-Jolys MB

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What medical services are insured past Manitoba Health?

Manitoba Health straight pays physicians' services that are medically required for you or your dependants. If yous are a Manitoba resident, and are physically present in the province for 183 days, you are eligible for insured medical services. Benefits include the following services:

  • Patients who are billed for insured services by physicians who exercise outside the programme are entitled to reimbursement from Manitoba Health
  • Physicians' services
  • Surgery / amazement
  • X-ray and laboratory services in approved facilities when ordered by a physician
What other practitioners' services am I insured for?

Optometrists

Manitoba Wellness provides coverage under the provincial health plan for one routine complete eye exam provided in a ii-year benefit period for patients under the age of nineteen years and 65 years of historic period and over. All residents, regardless of historic period, are entitled to coverage of an heart exam when warranted by medical atmospheric condition every bit determined past the centre care provider. Unless the patient falls into 1 of these categories, eye exams are not insured. The provincial wellness program also includes coverage for certain tests provided by optometrists including the Total Threshold Visual Fields Test, the Tonometry Exam and the Dilated Fundus Examination.

Chiropractors

Manitoba Health will insure a maximum of 7 visits per Manitoba resident per calendar year. The adjustment of the spinal column, pelvis and extremities are insured chiropractic services.

Dental Surgeons

Manitoba Health volition insure certain dental procedures when hospitalization is required.

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Which hospital services are insured?

You are insured for the following hospital services:

  • Accommodation and meals at the standard level
  • Necessary nursing services
  • Laboratory, x-ray and diagnostic procedures
  • Medications administered in a infirmary
  • Use of the operating room, care room and anaesthetic facilities
  • Routine surgical supplies
  • Occupational, oral communication and physiotherapy
  • Dietetic counselling

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What insured benefits are available to personal care home residents?

The need for placement in a Manitoba personal care abode is determined by an cess panel authorized by Manitoba Health.

If a Manitoba assessment panel determines that you require care in a personal care home and y'all come across the residency requirements, you may receive insured benefits.

Some of these benefits include:

  • standard accommodation
  • basic nursing care
  • assistance with and/or supervision of the activities of daily living
  • physiotherapy and occupational therapy
  • medical and surgical supplies
  • prescribed drugs and related preparations canonical by Manitoba Health
  • meals including special diets
  • laundry and linen services

What are the costs for personal care abode services?

Everyone who lives in a Manitoba personal intendance home is required to pay a daily residential fee established by Manitoba Wellness.

The toll of these services is shared by the provincial government (Manitoba Wellness) and the customer who needs the services. Manitoba Health pays the majority of the price through the regional wellness authorities.

The personal intendance service client pays the other portion of the cost. This toll is a daily accuse based on income.

As prices go upwards, and then does the cost of looking after clients who receive personal intendance services. Each year, the Manitoba government reviews the residential charges to adjust for increases in income and the cost of living. As a event, charges may increment from ane year to the next.

What if I don't meet the residency eligibility requirements for personal care home services?

If you formerly lived in Manitoba for xxx years or more y'all are eligible on the date yous render to Manitoba as a permanent resident, later on an absence of less than 10 years. If you are a newcomer to Manitoba, you are eligible later on living in the province for 24 consecutive months. If a Manitoba assessment console determines that you lot require care in a personal care home, you lot may be required to pay costs of $265.23 a twenty-four hours to cover services until your 24 month waiting catamenia is completed.

This waiting catamenia requirement does not apply to a person who has been a resident of a province or territory of Canada for five consecutive years and immediately establishes himself or herself as a resident of Manitoba and registers for a Manitoba health card. These individuals are simply required to pay the daily charge based on income once they receive a Manitoba health carte.

I have e'er lived in Manitoba. Am I eligible for personal care home services?

If yous take always lived in Manitoba, y'all are eligible for personal care home benefits.

I'thousand new to Manitoba but have e'er lived in Canada. Am I eligible for personal care abode services?

Canadian residents from another province or territory of Canada where you have lived for 5 sequent years but are new to Manitoba are eligible for personal care dwelling house benefits.

To receive benefits, yous must establish yourself every bit a resident of Manitoba and annals for a Manitoba health card. In one case you receive a Manitoba health menu, you will only be required to pay the daily charge based on income.

I'm returning to Manitoba and accept been living exterior of Canada for less than 10 years. Am I eligible for personal care habitation services?

If you lot formerly lived in Manitoba for thirty years or more, subsequently an absenteeism of less than 10 years, you are eligible for personal care benefits on the date you return to Manitoba equally a permanent resident.

I'm returning to Manitoba and have been living outside of Canada for more than ten years. Am I eligible for personal care home services?

If you lot take been living exterior of Canada for more than 10 years, you will be considered a newcomer to Manitoba. You will be eligible for personal intendance benefits after living in the province for 24 sequent months.

If a Manitoba cess panel determines that you require intendance in a personal care domicile, you may be required to pay costs of $265.23 a twenty-four hours to cover services until your 24 month waiting menstruation is completed.

For more information on any of the above programs contact:

Registration and Client Services
Manitoba Health
300 Carlton Street
Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 3M9
Business hours: Monday to Fri 8:30 to 16:xxx
For more than information telephone call: 204-786-7101
Fax:  204-783-2171
Toll free: 1-800-392-1207
TDD/TTY:  204-774-8618
TDD/TTY Relay Service exterior Winnipeg:  711 or ane-800-855-0511

Residents in Manitoba personal care homes are required to pay a daily residential fee based on income established by Manitoba Health. For details write or phone:

Residential Accuse Program
Financial Services
Manitoba Health

300 Carlton St.
Winnipeg MB  R3B 3M9
Telephone: 204-786-7150

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What health services are not insured?

Services not insured include the following:

  • personal care home benefits exterior of Manitoba
  • health services performed at the request of a third party, such every bit examinations for employment, drivers' licences, insurance, travel, immigration or emigration
  • care and treatment covered by the Workers' Compensation Lath, the Department of Veterans' Services or by other statute
  • services that are non medically required
  • preparation of records, reports, certificates or communications, or testimony in a court
  • drugs, medications, vaccines, sera or biological products, materials and surgical supplies, except as provided for under the regulations
  • ambulance and transportation subsidies except equally listed in the regulations
  • individual nursing
  • boosted charges for a private or semi-individual room
  • goggle box and radio-telephone services
  • services performed by psychologists and dietitians outside a hospital or institution
  • services performed by chiropodists and podiatrists
  • services performed by audiologists, speech therapists, occupational therapists and physiotherapists in private exercise
  • chiropractic services other than adjustments
  • acupuncture
  • telephone communication
  • services provided past any other practitioner in the healing arts except as listed in the regulations
  • Effective April 1, 1996 routine complete center examinations for persons 19 years of historic period or older but under the historic period of 65
  • Effective August 1, 1996 chiropractic treatments equally a upshot of a motor vehicle accident covered by Manitoba Public Insurance
  • services such as examinations, laboratory tests, x-rays and other procedures related to uninsured services

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If I need an ambulance, is information technology covered past Manitoba Wellness?

Manitoba Wellness does not cover land ambulance transports to a hospital or wellness care facility. Patient costs in Manitoba are currently $250. Patients may accept coverage for ambulance transport through private insurance for some or all of this price.

Manitoba Health will cover medically-necessary land ambulance inter-facility transports when a patient is beingness transported between designated wellness-care facilities for diagnostic tests or treatment, or from a more specialized level of care to another facility closer to domicile for rehabilitation or recovery.

Eligibility criteria for coverage of inter-facility medical transports includes:

  • the patient must exist a resident of Manitoba with a valid Manitoba Health carte,
  • the patient must medically require transportation by ambulance as determined by a doc, and
  • the patient is being transferred betwixt designated health-care facilities for diagnostic tests or handling, or from a more specialized level of care to another facility closer to domicile for rehabilitation or recovery.

In add-on, patients are not eligible for funding under the Manitoba IFT program if one of the following applies:

  • a fellow member of the Canadian Forces
  • a veteran of the Canadian Forces who is eligible for health care benefits from Veterans Affairs Canada
  • an inmate of a Federal prison or penitentiary
  • a person with a piece of work related disease or injury and who is eligible for coverage under The Worker's Compensation Act
  • a person involved in a motor vehicle incident and who is eligible for coverage under The Manitoba Public Insurance Corporation Act
  • a person who is receiving social assistance funding
  • a First Nations person or an Inuit who is an eligible recipient entitled to receive benefits nether the Not-Insured Health Benefits Program, Health Canada
Out of Province Transport of Manitobans

If y'all require an ambulance while out of the Province there are no subsidies/coverage from the Manitoba government. You will exist charged by the ambulance service/visitor that provides the service at total price recovery. The rate for out of province ambulance service may be substantially college than rates charged local residents, equally local subsidies will not apply.

A Manitoba ambulance may transport y'all if you require routine medical care in a bordering province to a neighbouring provincial facility. Ambulance costs would be billed at local Manitoba rates.

Manitoba Physicians in border areas should be enlightened that referrals to neighbouring provinces may take meaning financial consequences to you, the patient. Should the doctor in the bordering hospital elect to refer you lot for specialized care within that province, y'all would exist subject to the full toll recovery fee charged by that Province at a non-resident rate for send. Transportation costs from out of province hospitals are not an insured service.

Air Ambulance Transfers

Air ambulance transfers may exist an insured service in ane of three means:

  1. Patients meeting the vigil requirements for transportation nether the Manitoba Lifeflight Air Ambulance programme are fully insured for the air component of the send only are responsible for all costs associated with country ambulance transport to and from the aerodrome
  2. Patients located northward of the 53rd parallel qualify for the Northern Patient Transportation Program for medically necessary transportation
  3. Starting time nation residents living on reserves may also qualify for medical air or country transportation nether federal programs

Physicians are encouraged to contact Manitoba Wellness Out-of-Province claims or Lifeflight prior to referring any patient to an out of province hospital.

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Am I eligible for the Northern Patient Transportation Program?

Yous may be eligible for northern transportation subsidy to aid pay for transportation costs if y'all live north of the 53rd parallel in Manitoba and are required to travel long distances for specialty medical care.

The Northern Patient Transportation Program (NPTP) subsidizes medical transportation costs for eligible Manitoba residents in the n to obtain medical or hospital care not available in their abode community. Subsidies may include costs for an essential escort (ex:  if required for a minor or a person with disabilities).

Programme eligibility is express to Manitoba residents who live:

  • north of the 53rd parallel from the Saskatchewan boundary to the due west side of Lake Winnipeg
  • north of the 51st parallel from the e side of Lake Winnipeg to the Ontario purlieus
  • on Matheson Isle, when ground travel is non possible past winter road or ferry

Travel must be approved a physician and encounter program eligibility. Patients who accept coverage from an insurer or funder are not eligible for this medical travel subsidy. Examples include:

  • Employers
  • Workers' Compensation Board
  • Manitoba Public Insurance
  • Non-insured people (such as Beginning Nations, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, National Forces)

To procedure a transport request or for questions about the plan, please contact your local office:

Thompson NPTP office
c/o Thompson General Hospital
871 Thompson Bulldoze South
Thompson, MB R8N 0C8
1-800-290-1098
ane-204-677-5337
i-204-778-1516

Churchill NPTP office
c/o Churchill Wellness Centre Division of WRHA
P.O. Box 2500
Churchill, MB R0B 0E0
1-204-675-8361

The Pas NPTP office
c/o The Pas Wellness Eye
Box 240
The Pas MB, R9A 1K4
ane-800-290-1098
ane-204-623-9212

Pino Falls NPTP office
c/o Pino Falls Health Circuitous
Box 2000
Pino Falls, MB R0E 1M0
i-204-367-4441

Flin Flon NPTP role
c/o Flin Flon General Hospital
P.O. Box 340
Flin Flon MB R8A 1N2
i-800-290-1098
1-204-687-9638

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I will be travelling outside of Manitoba. What do I take to practise to maintain my Manitoba Health coverage if I will be temporarily residing outside of Manitoba or Canada for an extended period, and plan on returning to reside in Manitoba? (Instance: Extended vacation or travel):

If you lot are planning to reside outside of Manitoba for an extended period for the purposes of vacation or an extended travel get out, y'all tin can be absent from the province for upwards to vii months and remain eligible for Manitoba Health coverage.

To ensure that y'all continue to have uninterrupted coverage from Manitoba Health coverage during your extended absence, you should report whatsoever expected absence of 90 days or more than in a 12-month period to Manitoba Health prior to your departure. You can notify Manitoba Health past providing the post-obit prior to your departure:

  • A letter, due east-mail to insuredben@gov.mb.ca, or completed Request for Temporary out-of-Province Benefits course pdf providing your full name, permanent Manitoba address and temporary new address, the date of departure and expected engagement of return to Manitoba, Manitoba Health number, and the names of any family members accompanying you.

Additionally, if you wish to employ for a Temporary Out-of- Province Registration Certificate to ensure uninterrupted coverage during your stay outside of the province (and limited coverage for out-of country medical and hospital services), yous may complete a Request for Temporary out-of-Province Benefits form.

Please annotation:  Manitoba Health recommends that you explore private insurance options forth with your Manitoba Health coverage to ensure that you accept sufficient coverage for all of your health care needs while out of the country. Delight run into the section titled What happens if I need to run across a medico or receive medical attention while abroad? for information respecting out-of-province and out-of-state coverage.

I'm a student.  What do I have to do to maintain my Manitoba Health coverage if I written report in another province, territory, or country, and program on returning to reside in Manitoba?

Any Manitoba resident who leaves the province temporarily to attend an accredited educational institution is eligible, provided the following requirements are met.

If you are a Manitoba resident leaving the province to attend schoolhouse on a full-time ground, the following must be provided to Manitoba Health prior to your difference :

  • A letter or completed Manitoba Health formpdf requesting continued coverage from Manitoba Health. If you lot chose to write a letter of the alphabet, it should contain your full proper name, permanent Manitoba address and temporary new address, the appointment of departure and expected date of render to Manitoba, Manitoba Health number, and the names of whatever family members accompanying you, and
  • A letter from an accredited educational institution confirming your full-time attendance and elapsing of studies. You lot must reapply for coverage and provide confirmation for each subsequent year.

Once Manitoba Wellness receives the to a higher place mentioned documents, a Term Registration Certificate confirming your eligibility during your absence will be sent to yous.

Moving for a temporary employment opportunity, and plan on returning to reside in Manitoba:

If you are employed outside of Canada with plans to render, y'all must provide Manitoba Wellness with a copy of your piece of work contract that indicates the length of your work term. If you intend to return to Manitoba, Manitoba Health may extend your coverage for up to 24 months.

Note: If y'all program on taking your spouse or children with you, please inform Manitoba Health to ensure their continued coverage.

What happens if I need to see a doctor or receive medical attention while abroad?

In Canada:
Evidence your Manitoba Health carte du jour to the physician. The physician will either bill Manitoba Health straight for the services, or nib you, in which instance yous demand to obtain an itemized receipt. If you are billed directly, you will exist eligible for reimbursement from Manitoba Wellness for insured services according to that province or territory's fee schedule rate.

Outside Canada:
Payment of the bill may exist your responsibility.

Manitoba Wellness provides coverage for emergency medical services received out of the state at the rates paid in Manitoba. Out-of-country emergency infirmary services are paid at a per diem rate as set out in Manitoba's provincial regulations. Please annotation that these payments may non provide full coverage of the corporeality charged by the strange facility, and any balance owing to the foreign dr. or facility will be your responsibility. For more information regarding out-of-province benefits you tin visit Manitoba Health'due south Out-of-Province webpage at world wide web.gov.mb.ca/health/mhsip/leavingmanitoba.html.

If you lot have obtained a Term Registration Certificate prior to your departure, Manitoba Health will provide coverage for medically required non-emergency medical services received out of the country at the rates paid in Manitoba. Out-of-country hospital services in relation to medically required non-emergency medical services will be paid at a per diem rate as prepare out in Manitoba's provincial regulations. Please notation that these payments may non provide total coverage of the corporeality charged past the foreign facility, and any balance attributable to the strange physician or facility will be your responsibility.

Submit your original receipt to Manitoba Health for consideration of payment. Yous volition be reimbursed according to the rate which would have been paid had the same intendance been received in Manitoba.

Note: Manitoba Health Wellness recommends that y'all explore private insurance options in addition to your Manitoba Health coverage to ensure that you have sufficient coverage for all of your wellness intendance needs while out of the country.

Where tin I send/drop off my application for a Term Registration Certificate?

If you are planning on moving away from Manitoba temporarily, or taking an extended vacation, and wish to apply for continued health coverage, delight contact Manitoba Health at:

Registration and Client Services Unit
Manitoba Wellness
300 Carlton Street
Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 3M9
Business organization hours: Monday to Friday viii:30 to 16:30
General Inquiries Line: 204-786-7101 or Toll Free: 1-800-392-1207
Fax:  204-783-2171 or Toll Free: ane-866-608-2983
Email: InsuredBen@gov.mb.ca
TDD/TTY:  204-774-8618
TDD/TTY Relay Service outside Winnipeg:  711 or 1-800-855-0511

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What if I take to see a doc while in another province?

Manitoba has agreements with all Canadian provinces (except Quebec) to permit physicians to neb your provincial health plan, although some physicians may choose to beak you lot directly.  If y'all are admitted to an canonical hospital anywhere in Canada, Manitoba Health will pay the standard rate. Because some services are excluded, you are encouraged to obtain boosted wellness insurance before travelling. Contact Manitoba Health for more information.

Annotation:  You must show your Manitoba Health card to the dr. or hospital.

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Am I covered for emergency care outside of Canada?

Doctor Bills

Manitoba Health volition pay for emergency doctors' services exterior of Canada at a rate equal to what a Manitoba doctor would receive for a similar service.

Hospital Bills

Emergency hospital care is paid on an boilerplate daily rate established by Manitoba Wellness.

You may be charged more than than the amount paid past Manitoba Wellness for services provided outside Canada.

The difference in a higher place the covered corporeality may be substantial and is your responsibility.

Bring or mail your original bill to the Out-of-Province Claim Section at Manitoba Health inside half-dozen months of receiving care. If you have fabricated payments on your bills, Manitoba Health requires a receipt showing the corporeality paid. If y'all do non include your receipt, Manitoba Health will pay the hospital or medico directly.

For more information contact:

Manitoba Health
300 Carlton Street
Winnipeg, MB  R3B 3M9
Business organisation hours: Mon to Friday 8:30 to sixteen:30
For more information call: 204-786-7303
Price free:  1-800-392-1207 Ext. 7303
TDD/TTY: 204-774-8618
TDD/TTY Relay Service outside Winnipeg: 711 or 1-800-855-0511

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I'm moving away from Manitoba permanently. Am I still covered by Manitoba Wellness?

If y'all are leaving Manitoba permanently, you should apply to the Registration and Customer Services Unit for an Out-of-Province Certificate. The terms of your coverage may be one of the post-obit:

  • If y'all are moving to another province or territory
    Coverage by Manitoba Health will proceed for the residuum of the month in which you arrive in your new province or territory plus two additional months (except personal intendance dwelling benefits). Immediately upon arrival to your new province or territory, be sure to contact that province'southward or territory's health insurance plan to suit for continuity of coverage.
  • If you are moving to another state
    Coverage by Manitoba Health will proceed for the remainder of the month in which you exit Manitoba, plus two boosted months.
  • If you are moving away from Manitoba and are a Temporary Foreign Worker
    Coverage past Manitoba Health volition finish on the day that you depart from Manitoba.

If you lot are planning on moving permanently abroad from Manitoba, and wish to apply for continued health coverage, please contact Manitoba Health at:

Registration and Client Services Unit
Manitoba Health
300 Carlton Street
Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 3M9
Concern hours: Monday to Friday 8:thirty to 16:30
General Inquiries Line: 204-786-7101 or Toll Costless: 1-800-392-1207
Fax:  204-783-2171 or Cost Gratis: 1-866-608-2983
Email: InsuredBen@gov.mb.ca
TDD/TTY:  204-774-8618
TDD/TTY Relay Service outside Winnipeg:  711 or 1-800-855-0511

Manitoba residents are encouraged to submit requests to Manitoba Wellness via email, fax, and mail.

  • gov.mb.ca/health/
  • 204-786-7101 or toll free at ane-800-392-1207
  • Fax: 204-783-2171 or cost free at 1-866-608-2983
  • insuredben@gov.mb.ca

If in-person service is required, one person per household to attend the office is preferred.

** Now available** A secure drop off box located in the office at 300 Carlton St. for Manitoba Health Registration forms and supporting documents, requests to make changes to the health carte and Pharmacare applications.

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The Manitoba Health Services Insurance Plan is financed from general revenues of the Province of Manitoba and with funds provided by the Regime of Canada. All statements are subject to the provisions of The Health Services Insurance Act and Regulations.

Insured Benefits Co-operative
Manitoba Health

300 Carlton Street
Winnipeg MB  R3B 3M9
CANADA

Concern hours: Monday to Friday eight:thirty to 16:thirty

Telephone Numbers:
Vocalisation:  204-786-7101
Toll Free:  1-800-392-1207
Fax:  204-783-2171
Deaf Admission Line TTY/TDD:  204-774-8618

Residents within the province from outside Winnipeg:
Deaf Access Line TTY/TDD:
Phone call the Manitoba Relay Service at 711 or 1-800-855-0511 to achieve the above number.

Manitoba Pharmacare Program:
Voice:  204-786-7141
Toll-Free:  one-800-297-8099
Electronic mail:  pharmacare@gov.mb.ca

Health Care Abuse/Fraud Line:
Voice:  204-786-7118
Cost-Complimentary:  ane-866-778-7730

Is Your Question Still Not Answered?
East-mail the Insured Benefits Branch

Residents should carry their registration certificate (Manitoba Health carte du jour) at all times to present when they or their dependants require wellness services.