Alberta Blue Cross is temporarily reducing plan premiums for all individual health and insured (non-refund) group plan customers during the pandemic.
For individual health plan members, a 25 per cent monthly premium reduction will be applied automatically across all plans. Alberta Blue Cross provides individual health plans for hundreds of thousands of Albertans who are self-employed, retirees, working on contract or part-time or without benefits.
For insured (non-refund) employer group plans, the premium reduction will include a 50 per cent reduction to dental benefit premiums, a 25 per cent reduction to vision care benefits and a 25 per cent reduction to non-drug related extended health benefit premiums.
“This is an important step to helping our customers and provides timely cost relief without impacting employees’ continued access to benefits,” says Rudelic. “This is in addition to a number of other measures we have already implemented for our group customers,” said Jerry Rudelic, vice-president of Group benefits with Alberta Blue Cross.
The organization will review these reductions on a monthly basis as it continues to monitor the situation. The temporary premium reductions are not a deferral and Alberta Blue Cross will not be looking to recover these premium reductions in the future. More information about these financial relief options for customers is available at online.
