The Ontario Health Insurance Plan, or OHIP, recognizes the importance of eye health. However, OHIP’s focus is on care that is deemed medically necessary. This doesn’t include routine eye exams for everyone.
Rather, OHIP provides coverage for vision care under certain circumstances:
Annual eye exams for children 19 and under and seniors 65 and older.
Annual eye exams for individuals between the ages of 20 and 64 diagnosed with medical conditions that impact eye health.
Emergency eye care visits like eye injuries, sudden vision loss, infection, or foreign bodies. […]
