The public plan covers the prescription drugs on the List of Medications that are prescribed by a health professional and, in most cases, purchased in Québec.
You must join your new employer’s private prescription drug plan, unless your drugs are covered under another private plan.
A private prescription drug insurance plan is either a group insurance plan administered by a private company or an employee benefit plan.
RAMQ administers the public health and prescription drug insurance plans. It also remunerates health professionals.
As a rule, you have to pay an annual premium to Revenu Québec to remain insured under the Public Prescription Drug Insurance Plan.
The List of medications constitutes a regulatory list of the medications covered by Québec's basic prescription drug insurance plan.
