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Health insurance excess

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The higher the excess, the lower we can set your premium

As with home and car insurance, you can choose to pay a fixed sum - an excess – towards your treatment. You can set your excess at zero, £100, £250, £500 or £1,000.

Choose how your excess works

Once you’ve chosen an excess, you can decide how you pay it:

Once per plan year

(per person)

You'll only pay your excess once per plan year for each person on the plan.

  • If you make more than one claim in the same plan year, you won’t pay the excess again for that person
  • If your treatment continues into a new plan year, you’ll need to pay the excess again
  • Each person on the plan has their own excess

Each time you claim

(per person, per claim)

You'll pay an excess each time you make a claim.

  • This applies to every new claim you make
  • If you claim again for the same condition after 12 months, we treat this as a new claim
  • Each person on the plan pays their own excess for each claim they make

The excess doesn’t apply to some benefits, including: 

  • NHS Hospital Cash Benefit
  • Face-to-Face GP (£20 co-payment applies)
  • Worldwide Travel Cover (£50 excess may still apply to some sections of core cover)
  • Childbirth Cash Benefit
  • Vitality GP appointment
  • Optical, Dental and Hearing Cover
  • Weight loss and corrective surgery (25% co-payment applies)

Frequently asked questions

Here are a few of the questions we’ve answered for our members

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Need advice?

Call us on 0330 678 3326

Our team are on hand to answer your queries.

Lines are open:
Monday to Thursday 9am-8pm, Friday 9am-6pm, Saturday 10am-2pm 
Closed: Sunday and bank holidays.

Calls to '03' numbers cost no more than a national rate call to a 01 or 02 number, whether from a mobile or a landline. If you get inclusive free calls to local rate numbers with your landline or mobile tariff, calls to '03' numbers will be included.

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