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Status

• Bill C-201 received first reading on May 29, 2025.

What it does

• Adds mental, addictions and substance use health services to the Canada Health Act’s definition of “insured health services.” The new definition includes services provided in community settings.
• Amends the Act’s comprehensiveness criterion to expressly include services provided in community settings. The criterion requires provincial health insurance plans to insure specified services provided by hospitals, medical practitioners or dentists and, where provincial law permits, similar or additional services provided by other health care practitioners.

Who is affected

• The changes concern insured persons, provincial health insurance plans and providers of the services covered by the amended definitions and criterion.

Existing exclusions and other details

• The definition of insured health services continues to exclude services for which a person is entitled and eligible under another federal law or a provincial workers’ compensation law.
• The provided bill text specifies no new deadline or cost.