A-29.01, r. 4 - Regulation respecting the basic prescription drug insurance plan

Section 5 Disposition versions

2012-09-01

5. For the purposes of section 17 of the Act respecting prescription drug insurance (chapter A-29.01), the following are the functional impairments from which an eligible person may suffer:

(1)  an intellectual impairment, with an intelligence quotient or a development quotient of less than 70, as demonstrated in an evaluation using standardized tests; the development quotient is determined by multiplying by 100 the ratio between the person’s developmental age and his chronological age;

(2)  a severe, permanent psychiatric, organic or motor impairment which, despite technological assistance in the case of a motor impairment, considerably hinders the person in carrying out normal day-to-day activities and compromises his social integration;

(3)  a severe, permanent multiple impairment, with 2 or more of the following impairments the combination of which considerably hinders the person in carrying out normal day-to-day activities and compromises his social integration:

(a)  an intellectual impairment;

(b)  a psychiatric impairment;

(c)  an organic impairment;

(d)  a motor impairment;

(e)  a speech and language impairment;

(f)  a hearing impairment for which an audiometric evaluation, before correction, indicates an average acuity threshold of 40 dB or more at a frequency of 500, 1,000 and 2,000 hertz in the ear having the greater hearing capability;

(g)  a visual impairment which, after correction by means of appropriate ophthalmic lenses, is characterized by visual acuity in each eye of not more than 6/21 or by a field of vision in each eye that is less than 60° in the 180° and 90° meridians or that requires the use of special optical systems of over +4.00 dioptres.

O.C. 1519-96, s. 5.