Manulife Group Benefits Insurance Reviews

We’ve been dealing with Manulife for about 12 years. I couldn’t hate them more. Occasionally a claim goes through without any issues, but it’s the exception. Every time I have to call Manulife it’s the same run around, they resubmit, and I never hear anything again. It takes multiple calls, and it often has to be resubmitted on their end more than once. I dread every single call I have to make, it’s like everything is automatically rubber-stamped no.

Every claim has been a battle since joining the new plan 8 months ago, culminating in them refusing an estimate for a partial plate, due to the teeth not being removed while under the plan! 2.5 months, and two letters to approve compression stockings!

For a total $165 massage, I was only covered $84. Their "reasonable rates" for ON is the cheapest in Canada (which doesn't make any sense) at $106/hour so they only covered 50% of the total cost. That is an absolute joke - very very disappointed in their service.

Manulife is the most frustrating company I have ever had to deal with.
I asked before enrollment what are the eligible expenses under our PSA. I was told financial services was included. I called again to ask exactly what financial services were included. I was told X was included.
I submit a claim for X and it was denied. I call back 3 times and resubmitting things until I find out X is not covered but Y is. I submit a claim for Y. It also doesn't go through. I call to ask why.
The service rep tells me only dental services are covered. I said that doesn't make sense. I do some digging and it turns out Financial services was completely taken off. What's going on?
I pointed out it seems Manulife is playing around and changing things. She said they don't do that. Right.
Their services reps are clueless. Their claims department deny everything. There's no consistency. The website has no email contact option. While waiting for their call centre they can suddenly put me on a silent line that never gets picked up.
Stressful and absolutely terrible.

Horrible experience and I wish my employer had other health insurance options. I work as a nurse and my plan has a 450$ limit per year for massage therapy but then when I submitted a claim for 110$, they decided to reimburse me only for 106$ after multiple submission and finally I had to call them for that. The reason was that’s what the company deems reasonable. I wish, I could determine how they charge but that’s beyond my control. There is no mention of that in their mobile app. And I know my other friends whose insurance doesn’t even require a note for a massage therapy in the same work sector. So much for transparency and quality

We don`t even get instant reimbursement for drugs, the system is a nightmare and they keep raising the cost on us, plus as truckers we have to pay the whole thing outright out of our pay cheque, the company isn't allowed to cover anything for us. we get nothing in terms of coverage and in fact they keep diminishing. And every time we put in a claim they mess something up and we end up owing them money. Its a scam. Stay away from Manulife. Although, judging by the reviews I've seen its looking like the industry as a whole is in terrible need of a clean up.

1. Staff is not knowledgeable. Every time I've called the customer service person sounds annoyed that they had to answer the phone, have no clue what they're talking about.

2. Online claims take forever to process, previous providers have paid within 24 hours of submitting online claim, I have claims sitting for weeks before my measly 20% coverage is paid back to me.

3. Coverage is terrible at best, I know this has a lot to do with my employer as well, however it's unfortunate that a modern benefits provider would cater such terrible coverage.

Recently I submitted a prescription drug claim and didn't receive the statement for a whole month. I sent an email to query about it, and a representative replied saying that the prescription drug was not covered by my plan. It was blood sugar testing strips, and it was covered before. In the replied email, the representative wrote down a different DIN from the one on the receipt that I sent to them, which shows me the representative was careless and not customer-oriented. I know the testing strips' DIN is different from the store by store, so it is totally understandable that the auto-billing system cannot handle it properly, BUT the representative should have better knowledge regarding this, not just saying it's not covered.

I have experienced several group benefits companies, Manulife is the second-worst.