{"id":19374,"date":"2020-08-26T15:00:19","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T19:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/empire-life-adding-telemedicine-to-group-benefits-plans-149276"},"modified":"2020-08-26T15:00:19","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T19:00:19","slug":"empire-life-adding-telemedicine-to-group-benefits-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2020\/08\/26\/empire-life-adding-telemedicine-to-group-benefits-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Empire Life adding telemedicine to group benefits 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\/2017\/11\/Telecommuting-123RF.png\" class=\"attachment-feature size-feature wp-post-image\" alt title=\"Empire Life adding telemedicine to group benefits plans\"> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\"> <span>Staff <\/span>&nbsp;|&nbsp;August 26, 2020 <\/p>\n<p>The Empire Life Insurance Co. is&nbsp;adding telemedicine services to its group benefits plans.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning Sept. 1, 2020,&nbsp;all&nbsp;employees whose&nbsp;plan sponsors offer Empire Life\u2019s group benefits will automatically have access to the new service, provided by Teladoc Health.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNearly two in five Canadians say they have faced COVID-related barriers to medical care,\u201d said Vanessa Lycos, vice-president of group product and marketing, in a press release, referring to an Angus Reid survey conducted in May 2020.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/canadians-cite-91-satisfaction-rate-with-virtual-health-care-survey-146821\">Canadians cite 91% satisfaction rate with virtual health care<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith telemedicine, talking to a doctor is safe, simple, fast and easy \u2014 any time of the day or night, 365 days a year. And with no travel time or time in the waiting room, it may also help reduce absenteeism, which is a growing problem for employers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Empire Life already provides other Teladoc Health services including its Best Doctors expert medical services, which it added in 2018, and its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/empire-life-adds-mental-health-navigator-teksmed-launches-mental-well-being-app-145603\">mental-health navigator service<\/a>, added earlier&nbsp;in 2020.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/empire-life-adding-telemedicine-to-group-benefits-plans-149276\">Read the full article at BenefitsCanada.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff &nbsp;|&nbsp;August 26, 2020 The Empire Life Insurance Co. is&nbsp;adding telemedicine services to its group benefits plans. Beginning Sept. 1, 2020,&nbsp;all&nbsp;employees whose&nbsp;plan sponsors offer Empire Life\u2019s group benefits will automatically have access to the&#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\/19374"}],"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=19374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}