Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Apr 2017
A look at whether your insurer will pay for what the Government won't if you get cancer
10 April 2017 - The C word – cancer – none of us want to hear it when we visit the doctor.
We then don’t want to hear the N word – no – when we ask whether our health insurance covers the cost of our treatment.
While the number of people hit with this double whammy of expletives is few, some insurers are getting ahead of the game by increasing their cover for cancer treatments not funded by the Government.
AIA has led the charge on this, at the end of 2015 increasing its cover for non-surgical, PHARMAC and non-PHARMAC, treatments to $500,000.
It has now added a Cancer Treatment Benefit to its Trauma product.
