Updates

On June 30, 2018, the newly elected Ontario government announced changes to the province’s coverage program that had recently been expanded to include prescriptions drugs for children and youth (called OHIP+). Specifically, the program will now pay for prescriptions only for children and youth who do not already have private drug coverage. This move scales back a recent major expansion of the province’s coverage program. Unlike the provincial drugs programs for seniors and social assistance recipients that include co-payments and are managed separately from the provincial coverage program, OHIP+ provided prescriptions without co-payment for anyone with a health card who is 24 years of age or under. As of December 2018, the proposed changes to this coverage program had not yet been implemented.