Health and Social Services
Insured Health Care Coverage for Students
If you are going to university or other post secondary institution outside Yukon, Yukon Health Care Insurance will cover your doctor and hospital benefits while you are out of territory at school as long as you:
- are a full-time student at a university or other recognized post-secondary institution
- submit a temporary absence form
-- before you leave -- to YHCIP for approval of continued coverage; you must do this every year tha tyou attend school outside the territory - return to Yukon at least once during the school year or submit a letter explaining why you aren't returning
- intend to return to Yukon after finishing your studies
YHCIP will not cover the cost of ambulance transportation outside of Yukon, nor will it cover the cost of any medevacs.
- Attending Post Secondary Institutions in Canada
- Attending Post Secondary Institutions Outside of Canada
- Before you leave for school
Attending Post Secondary Institutions in Canada
No matter where in Canada you attend school, you will be covered 100 per cent by Yukon Health Care Insurance Plan for insured hospital and physician services if you advise YHCIP offices that you will be out of the territory attending school.
If you see a doctor or are hospitalized, your bills will be sent directly to Yukon for payment under reciprocal billing agreements. The exception to this is Quebec. If you attend school in Quebec, doctors and hospitals may want payment at the time service is provided. Submit your receipts to Insured Health Services for reimbursement.
You are responsible for any service or treatment not covered by Yukon Health Care Insurance. You need to know that YHCIP does not cover ground ambulance or air ambulance outside of the Yukon. If you require this service, you will be billed for them.
Attending Post Secondary Institutions Outside of Canada
Outside of Canada, your coverage is limited to the maximum amount that would have been paid for the same services in the Yukon. You will probably be required to pay at the time you receive the service and will then be reimbursed once you submit the receipts to YHCIP. You are resposible for any costs over the Yukon rate as well as for any services not covered under YHCIP.
Before you leave for school, you should:
- Contact insured health services to fill in a temporary absence form to ensure health care coverage while away at school
- Obtain health care insurance to cover health care costs that are not covered by YHCIP. Additional health care insurance can be purchased through insurance agencies and many universities and colleges also have heatlh care premiums.
- Ensure all vaccinations are up to date
- Yukon students are eligible for free meningococcal vaccine
- Meningitis is a fast-spreading virus that can have serious health consequences. Yukon Health Care Insurance Plan will not cover the cost of vaccine if not provided in Yukon.
- Call the Whitehorse Health Centre or your local community health centre to make arrangements for the vaccine.
- Check in with Health Services at the college or university that you will be attending to find out what, if any, other steps you need to take before leaving the YUkon and what health services are provided by the institution.
Insured Health & Hearing Services
- Insured Health & Hearing Services
- Appeal Process
- Children's Drug and Optical Program
- Chronic Disease Program
- Coverage Outside Yukon
- Coverage for Students
- Drug Formulary for Chronic Disease, Pharmacare and Children's Drug Program [2555.38 KB ]
- Extended Health Care Benefits to Seniors
- Health Care Card
- Hearing Services
- Insured Health Benefits
- Insured Health Temporary Absence Form
- Medical Travel
- Organ Donation Program
- Payment Schedule for Yukon [607.91 KB ]
- Pharmacare
- Physician Claims & Registration
