
Healthcare services for group insurance companies
Become more than just an insurer—become a strategic partner in your clients' organizational success.
As your partner, Biron allows you to integrate a comprehensive range of health and wellness services into your group insurance portfolio:
- Team specializing in occupational health: physicians, physical therapists, nurses, and more.
- Prevention and screening: Pre-employment and ongoing medical examinations, cardiometabolic and sleep disorder screening programs, vaccinations, telemedicine, toxicology, and much more.
- Occupational health and safety: medical support and on-site nursing services.
- Absence and disability management: first aid, consulting services, support, personalized return-to-work plans.
- Modular healthcare services: in permanent or temporary clinics at workplaces, at service points, or via our mobile team and remote care.
- Pharmacogenomics: DNA testing to optimize mental health treatments, pain management, or disability contexts.
- Sleep care: personalized diagnostic and therapeutic care pathways for sleep disorders.
- Overall well-being of employess: conferences and workshops on nutrition, physical activity, stress management, sleep, and workplace performance.
- Digital support: an online platform for monitoring, managing activities, and providing clear reports for employers.
- Medical imagery: RAMQ and private services.
These services are turnkey: Biron takes care of everything from providing the service to handling logistics and follow-up, so you can offer a complete solution without increasing your workload.
Benefits for insurers
Financiel gains
- Reduced claims costs: fewer chronic illnesses or prolonged absences due to prevention, screening, and rapid intervention.
- Optimized compensation: better disability management reduces the duration and frequency of payments.
- Return on investment: every dollar invested in prevention yields a return that exceeds its costs.
- Prevention of severe cases: early screening and monitoring reduce the likelihood of costly disabilities.
Operational efficiency
- Decision-making support: occupational health expertise and consulting services and objective analyses that help insurers make timely decisions on claims.
- Reduced administrative complexity: fewer intermediaries, a single point of contact.
Customer experience (insured employers and employees)
- Higher member satisfaction: providing insureds with fast, high-quality access to healthcare services improves the insurer's reputation.
- Corporate customer loyalty: employers notice reduced absenteeism and increased productivity, encouraging them to maintain their relationship with the insurer.
- Compliance and credibility: partnering with a recognized provider strengthens the insurer’s service reliability for employers and employees.
The relevance of offering our services

Health at work
Canada saw a 5% increase in the disability rate between 2017 and 2022(1)

Sleep care
1 in 3 adults in Canada do not get enough sleep(2)

Genetics
More than 500,000 people are absent from work each week due to mental health issues(3)

Genetics
It costs our national economy more than $50 billion to manage mental health(4)
Access to our service ecosystem
Biron, Imagix and Medvue
Genetics
- Pharmacogenomic testing program for mental health disabilities and pain management
- Consultation with a pharmacist included
- The most comprehensive gene panel analyzed in Canada for mental health testing

- 65+ service locations in Quebec
- Home or workplace sampling available
- Over 2,000 tests and analyses offered
- Test results available within 24 to 48 hours for most tests
- Clinical support and assistance with results interpretation

Medical imaging
- Network of 20 clinics across Quebec
- RAMQ and private services
- 70+ medical imaging experts
- CNESST and SAAQ case management
- Appointments within 24 to 48 hours for several modalities (MRI, CT scan, etc.)
- Results sent within 24 to 48 hours after the exam for certain modalities

Health at work
- 5 physical clinics
- A mobile team of occupational health specialists
- 3 comprehensive service lines (prevention, verification, intervention, and care)
- Partners in Quebec and across Canada

Sleep care
- Network of 33 service points in Quebec and New Brunswick
- Services available digitally across Canada
- Personalized diagnostic and therapeutic care pathways for sleep disorders
- Medical management of sleep disorders by a multidisciplinary team (pulmonologists, respiratory therapists, sleep specialists, dentists, CCSH, RPSGT)
- Competitive pricing


Certification and accreditations

Accreditation Canada

Health Canada

ISO 15189

SOC 2 Type 2

Canada's best managed
Sources4
- Statistics Canada. (2024, 3 avril). The disability rate in Canada increased in 2022. https://www.statcan.gc.ca/o1/en/plus/5980-disability-rate-canada-increased-2022
- Public Health Agency of Canada. (2019, 14 mars). Are Canadian adults getting enough sleep? Infographic. Gouvernement du Canada. https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/publications/healthy-living/canadian-adults-getting-enough-sleep-infographic.html
- Wang, S. Z., & Karpinski, E. A. (2016, July 14). Psychological health in the workplace. Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) – Technical Services Unit. https://canada.ca/publicentre-EDSC
- Lim and al., (2008). A new population-based measure of the economic burden of mental illness in Canada [Une nouvelle mesure populationnelle du fardeau économique de la maladie mentale au Canada]. Maladies chroniques au Canada.