After a workplace injury

Treatment under a WorkSafeBC claim

What WorkSafeBC 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 claim stays open

What you need to startAn accepted claim and your claim number.

At the deskNothing at the desk

How a WorkSafeBC claim gets you treated

  1. Tell your employer, then WorkSafeBC

    Report the injury to your employer the day it happens and file with WorkSafeBC. Treatment can start before the claim is decided.

  2. Book with a provider who takes WSBC

    Not every clinic does. The ones on this page said so themselves — they are set up to invoice WorkSafeBC and to file the reports it asks for.

  3. The clinic bills and reports

    Your practitioner sends the treatment plan and updates. You pay nothing at any point on an accepted claim.

What WorkSafeBC covers

Set by your treatment plan rather than a fixed count — the clinic requests extensions on your behalf.

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

Where you can compare WorkSafeBC 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.

WorkSafeBC claims: what to know

WorkSafeBC treatment is administratively heavier than an ICBC claim and financially lighter. There is no user fee to compare and nothing to pay at the desk, so the thing worth filtering for is the clinic’s willingness to do the paperwork: treatment plans, extension requests and return-to-work reporting.

That is also why this page reports a shorter list than the ICBC one at the same city size. A clinic set up to invoice WorkSafeBC has said so; a clinic that has not is not counted as a refusal, only as one we cannot confirm.