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Swapping health insurance

  • 24-11-2019 2:33pm
    #1
    2smiggy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,526 ✭✭✭✭


    If I swap my current health insurance, to a higher cover one, do I keep all the benifits of my current plan?


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  • #2
    duffman13
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,085 ✭✭✭duffman13


    2smiggy wrote: »
    If I swap my current health insurance, to a higher cover one, do I keep all the benifits of my current plan?

    Yes, you'll only serve waiting times for new services/limits your increasing to


  • #3
    28064212
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,902 ✭✭✭✭28064212


    Just to be clear, while you don't have new waiting periods for anything in the new plan that was already covered in the old plan, you don't keep benefits that aren't in the new plan. For example, say the old plan covered Physiotherapy visits, but the new plan doesn't. By switching to the new plan, you lose that benefit, even if the overall cover is better.

    It's usually not an issue if you're upgrading within the same insurer, as the higher plans are often a superset of the lower ones, but it's definitely something you want to check out if you're changing insurer

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  • #4
    2smiggy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,526 ✭✭✭✭2smiggy


    28064212 wrote: »
    Just to be clear, while you don't have new waiting periods for anything in the new plan that was already covered in the old plan, you don't keep benefits that aren't in the new plan. For example, say the old plan covered Physiotherapy visits, but the new plan doesn't. By switching to the new plan, you lose that benefit, even if the overall cover is better.

    It's usually not an issue if you're upgrading within the same insurer, as the higher plans are often a superset of the lower ones, but it's definitely something you want to check out if you're changing insurer


    thanks , I will make sure to compare the plans, and not knock off anything that could be of benefit to me !!


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