Group Benefits Solutions

Benefits – Plan Member Information

About Us

Health Association Nova Scotia is a not-for-profit, non-government, membership based organization with over 60 years of experience in delivering shared services. One of our core service offerings is Group Benefits Solutions. We provide a range of comprehensive and cost-effective benefits plans, designed to help protect plan members and their families. Serving over 35,000 active employees and 10,000 retirees, we are the largest, longest-standing provider of group benefits administration services in Nova Scotia’s health system.

As a third-party administrator for health employers across Nova Scotia, we ensure provincial practices are in place, allowing for competitive and sustainable rates, as well as consistent coverage and benefit administration for all health workers enrolled in our plans. We also have strong governance structures, comprised equally of union and employer (both health authority and continuing care sectors) representatives. These representatives are involved in rate setting, plan design, investment monitoring and so on.

On a day-by-day basis, we support our Plan Members through a variety of key roles, such as completing enrollments; managing employee and retiree data (including making changes to pertinent plan member information); coordinating claims; plan member communications and much more.

Our team is dedicated to excellence through innovation and outstanding performance built on over 115 years of tried-and-true experience. Contact us toll free at 1-866-886-7246 at any time if you have questions regarding your benefits and we’d be happy to assist you.

Providing You With the Plan Information You Need

This website includes all the group benefits offered by HANS. You may be enrolled in some or all of the benefits offered by your employer to its eligible employees. Please check with your employer to confirm the rules around the benefits on offer to you.

The Group Benefits Solutions website is designed to provide Plan Members with the information you need –easy to find and quick to access – with the simple click of a button.

Whether you wish to learn more about your plan coverage, find a claims form, or have a question, such as, “what is coordination of benefits?” our goal is to make all essential information readily available to you.

A brief summary of the Health Association’s benefits programs, including eligibility requirements and coverage, is provided in our Benefits Summary. More detailed information about each of the following mandatory and optional benefits is also provided on this site:

• Health Plan
• Optional Life Insurance
• Dental Plan
• Optional Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance
• Basic Life Insurance
• Optional Critical Illness Insurance
• Long Term Disability

In addition, members of our Health and Dental Plans can access their personal accounts on the Medavie Blue Cross Plan Member Secure Website at www.medaviebc.ca

Extra Pluses for Our Plan Members

Employees enrolled in the Health Association benefits plans also enjoy some additional bonuses of plan membership.

• You have access to belairdirect (rebranded from Johnson Insurance) Preferred Service Home and Auto Plan.
• You have access to savings on out-of-pocket expenses and prescription drugs through our Pharmacy Partnerships.