For veterans

Treatment under a Veterans Affairs authorization

What Veterans Affairs pays for, how long you have, and what to bring to the first visit — with the clinics that bill it directly, where we hold enough of them to compare.

Treatment windowas long as your authorization runs

What you need to startYour VAC client number and an authorization for treatment.

How a Veterans Affairs authorization gets you treated

  1. Get your authorization

    VAC or Medavie Blue Cross issues it against your accepted condition. It names the therapy and the number of visits.

  2. Find a clinic that direct-bills Blue Cross

    The listings here said they are set up for it, so you do not pay and claim back.

  3. Treatment is invoiced for you

    You show the card, they invoice. Renewals go through your case manager.

What Veterans Affairs covers

Authorization comes from VAC and names both the treatment type and the number of visits.

Physiotherapy
as authorized
Chiropractic
as authorized
Massage therapy
as authorized
Acupuncture
as authorized
Counselling
as authorized
Kinesiology
as authorized
Occupational therapy
as authorized
Podiatry
as authorized
Dietetics
as authorized
Naturopathic medicine
not covered
Osteopathy
not covered
Speech therapy
as authorized

Where you can compare Veterans Affairs clinics

These are the cities where we hold enough clinics billing this claim to be worth comparing. The funder works everywhere in the province; our index does not yet.

Veterans Affairs claims: what to know

Veterans Affairs coverage is generous but gated: it pays for an accepted condition, and pays nothing without an authorization naming that therapy. The friction is finding a clinic that will direct-bill Medavie Blue Cross instead of asking you to pay and claim back.

There are fewer of those clinics than there are clinics overall, which is the whole reason this page exists as its own list rather than as a filter chip buried in search.