For Your Benefit

 

The Personnel Department would like
to introduce this new column to discuss
some of the benefits of employment at
Douglas College and, in addition, to
discuss the employee benefits resulting
from employment at Douglas College.
This month we will discuss filling in a
HEALTH EXPENSE STATEMENT.
This form is used when claiming for
prescription drugs and other covered
expenses, excluding eyeglasses.

A HEALTH EXPENSE STATEMENT
(white form) is available in the rack just
inside the doors of the Personnel Office
(Room 2300). This form has two
sections: Part 1 is for general information
and Part 2 is for the claiming
information. Part 2 is designed to report
the expenses of one claimant only. For
each subsequent claimant, a new Part 2
must be filled out (see the reverse side of
the form).

Before you complete the form, take a
photocopy of all your prescription
receipts.

COMPLETING THE FORM

In filling out Part 2, take the
information directly from the receipt(s).
The prescription number is NOT the DIN
NUMBER. Some of the new prescription
receipts have a 1/4 inch peel-off strip,
with all the information, that can be
attached directly to the form. Attach a
photocopy of all the prescription receipts
to the form and submit it to Great West
Life. GWL currently reimburses at 80%
of the prescription amount in excess of
the $25 annual deductible fee.

Keep the original of the prescription
receipts for submission to Pharmacare
should you become eligible to claim.
Pharmacare will only accept original
receipts as proof of purchase. To claim
for Pharmacare, you must have exceeded
$600 per family per calendar year in
eligible expenses. Once you have reached
the $600 level, submit all of the original
receipts for the calendar year along with a
completed Pharmacare form available at
the prescription counter of your

pharmacy. To claim these expenses they
must be submitted to Pharmacare by
March 31 of the year immediately
following the benefit year. Pharmacare
currently reimburses at 70% of the
prescription amount in excess of $600.

Even after exceeding the $600 level,
continue submitting the photocopies of
the prescription receipts along with a
HEALTH EXPENSE STATEMENT to
GWL, because they will reimburse on the
30% that Pharmacare does not cover.

The new provincial prescription
system is now in place, and it may have
impact on the procedure outlined above
for coverage through Pharmacare. We
will let you know in a later edition of
INside when we have clarified these
implications. I

 

 

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| Andrew Charles, Chief of the Musqueam Band, was one of several First Nations leaders who appeared at Douglas
College on October 11. The well-attended forum was used to discuss the realities of land claims and the spirit behind
the actions and pro-actions like last summer’s blockades at Gustafsen Lake in B.C. and Ipperwash Provincial Park in