{"id":18301,"date":"2020-05-07T15:15:43","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T19:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/medavie-blue-cross-adding-virtual-health-care-tool-to-group-plans-145883"},"modified":"2020-05-07T15:15:43","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T19:15:43","slug":"medavie-blue-cross-adding-virtual-health-care-to-group-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2020\/05\/07\/medavie-blue-cross-adding-virtual-health-care-to-group-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Medavie Blue Cross adding virtual health-care to group plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"alignleft clearfix\">\n<div class=\"wp-caption feature-image alignleft\"> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"316\" height=\"190\" src=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/44701995_virtualcare123RF-e1544021694867.jpg\" class=\"attachment-feature size-feature wp-post-image\" alt=\"Copyright:everythingpossible\" title=\"Medavie Blue Cross adding virtual health-care to group plans\"> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\"> <span>Staff<\/span>&nbsp;|&nbsp;May 7, 2020 <\/p>\n<p>Medavie Blue Cross is adding a virtual health-care tool to its group benefits plans.<\/p>\n<p>The Online Doctors Unlimited&nbsp;tool, which is available through a partnership with Maple, includes consultations with Canadian-licensed doctors; access to a doctor immediately; service available 24\/7\/365; and an efficient administrative process. A lite version of the tool, with a limit of five daytime visits per year, is also available.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/walmart-canada-rolls-out-free-virtual-health-care-to-all-employees-144658\">Walmart Canada rolls out free virtual health care to all staff<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMedavie Blue Cross is committed to finding innovative health-care solutions that meet the needs of our clients and their employees,\u201d said Marc Avaria, the insurer\u2019s vice-president of product and disability management, in a press release. \u201cOver the past several months, we have introduced a number of options to help plans provide access to emerging digital health options. One of the most popular new features has been Online Doctors, which provides members with instant access to Canada-licensed doctors through their computer or mobile device.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/medavie-blue-cross-adding-virtual-health-care-tool-to-group-plans-145883\">Read the full article at BenefitsCanada.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff&nbsp;|&nbsp;May 7, 2020 Medavie Blue Cross is adding a virtual health-care tool to its group benefits plans. The Online Doctors Unlimited&nbsp;tool, which is available through a partnership with Maple, includes consultations with Canadian-licensed doctors;&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}