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Community Services Benefits Trust plan resources

All CSBT benefit programs, powered by GroupHEALTH, offer exclusive features to support community services and non-profit organizations and their employees. Below is information on the valuable resources available in our benefit plans to support our partner organizations.

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Disability Management

End-to-end solutions for proactive absence and disability claim management through the Disability Management Institute.

The Disability Management Institute (DMI) supports you by providing businesses and employees with innovative solutions and personalized support through the entire absence process.

Services offered:

  • Early intervention
  • Advice to Pay
  • Workers Compensation claim management
  • Relief of cost review
  • Claims services
  • Rehab services

Additional services:

  • Stay at work programs
  • Insurer, employee & employer training
  • Mental health services

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Travel Coverage & Trip Cancellation

Trip cancellation coverage and support for employees and their family if a health event occurs while travelling out of their home province.

Travel Coverage applies while you or your dependent are travelling outside your province of residence.

What’s Covered?

  • Unanticipated sickness or disease
  • Related emergency medical assistance at a hospital or clinic
  • Prescription drugs
  • Extending or interrupting your trip when the expenses are related to amounts paid in advance

The trip cancellation coverage allows you to regain lost expenses related to cancelling your trip due to unexpected events. There are any many causes for cancelled, extended, or interrupted trips that could make you eligible for travel cancellation benefits.

sparrow

sparrow is GroupHEALTH’s unified health and wellness concierge – a single app that provides your employees, their spouse, and dependents with health and wellness services tailored to support them through all of life’s challenges. By transforming the landscape of healthcare integration and accessibility, sparrow gives your employees seamless access to comprehensive care so they can prioritize their whole health.

Your employees’ wellbeing is the cornerstone of a thriving business. With sparrow’s enhanced mental health support and Employee & Family Assistance Program (EFAP/EAP) services, you provide them with a comprehensive suite of wellness services designed to support them in every aspect of their lives – from work, health, life, fitness, and everything in between. sparrow helps your teams focus on what matters most – their health and happiness. 

Accessing proper medical care in Canada can be challenging. With sparrow’s Virtual Healthcare services, your employees, their spouse, and dependents, can connect with a Canadian licensed physician in minutes, 24/7/365. Yep, even outside of the country.  

Virtual Healthcare provides your employees with ultimate flexibility, so they can spend less time in waiting rooms or taking personal days, and more time recovering. 

When your employees encounter serious diagnoses, including mental health disorders, they get automatic access to a team of world-renowned experts to get the best possible treatment, care, and outcome.

Paper-free Solutions

Digital-first solutions offer paper-free management and engagement with your benefit plan.

Going paperless means, you have a single platform to review all benefits-related documents including digital billing statements, enrolment, and claims submission.

Enrol-ME Online allows for paperless employee enrolment, where employees are guided through the enrolment process with an online tool that explains all aspects of the benefit plan and enrolment process to an employee.

The myGroupHEALTH platform allows employees to view coverage information, submit claims and be reimbursed through direct deposit.

Plan Administrator Resources

Resources to make benefit plan administration simple and easy. GroupHEALTH’s resources allow for simple and easy benefit plan administration. These resources include the following:

  • Designed to simplify benefits administration by providing online and direct access to view, add, or modify employee group benefits data; as well as view, print and download monthly billing statements, individual employee benefits profiles and benefit cards.
  • Streamlines and/or eliminates the paper-based processing previously required.

  • GroupHEALTH’s service teams are available to answer questions, troubleshoot challenges, and guide you through the world of employee benefits
  • The team acts as an extension of your human resources and plan administration teams, working to alleviate obstacles and day-to-day plan administration duties
  • The service team is robust, with deep expertise and strong industry knowledge to resolve problems and create innovative solutions

  • Created to help you understand how to administer the benefit plan your company has selected through GroupHEALTH. It will assist you in guiding your members through the various processes that will involve them.
  • Communication resources including email templates and document handouts are available here to support you in communicating the value of your benefit plan to your employees.

Employee Resources

Support your employees with user-friendly options to understand and engage with their benefits plan, including:

  • User-friendly app gives employees access to benefits and coverage information on the go.
  • Allows users to quickly view their benefits card, check available coverage, view benefit-specific balance remaining, and verify or change eligible dependents.
  • Provides easy access to submit digital claims, view past claims, and provide direct deposit reimbursement.

  • The Solution Centre provides resources to learn more about features of your benefits plan and how to use them.
  • Provides instruction and access to plan perks that aren’t provided on other platforms.
  • Offers FAQ solutions on the complexities of navigating certain aspects of a benefits plan including coordination benefits with a spouse, understanding benefit predeterminations, dispensing fess, and generic drugs.