Alberta Health Care Insurance Plan

Description:

Through the Alberta Health Care Insurance Plan (AHCIP), the ministry provides residents of Alberta with full coverage for medically necessary physician and some specific dental and oral surgical health services.

Region of Administration:

Provincial

Government / Department:

Alberta Health

Eligibility:

All residents

Coverage:

Alberta insures a number of medically necessary oral surgical and dental procedures; a dentist may perform a small number of these procedures, but the majority of the procedures can be billed to the Plan only when performed by an oral or maxillofacial surgeon.

Providers:

Dentists

Therapeutic Responsibility: