Hospital (Outside Canada) Provision

The Hospital (Outside Canada) Provision is available to members (except pensioners) with Comprehensive Coverage.

Eligible expenses include reasonable and customary hospital charges for each day of hospitalisation in a general hospital, a hospital of the CF, or the armed forces of a foreign country, and may include the following:

Eligible Expenses

Diet counselling services

Use of diet counselling services when prescribed by a physician.

Drugs in hospital

Drugs prescribed and administered in hospital by any attending physician

Hospital out-patient services

Out-patient services provided by a hospital.

Hospital ward accommodation

Standard ward accommodation.

Laboratory services

Laboratory, radiological and other diagnostic procedures.

Nursing services in hospital

Necessary nursing services when provided by the hospital.

Operating/delivery room

Use of operating and delivery rooms, anaesthetic and surgical supplies.

Services of hospital staff

Services rendered by any person paid by the hospital.

Speech therapy services

Use of speech therapy facilities when prescribed by a physician.