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PHC - HealthCover 4 Life (Plan 1)

Four plans are available providing a choice of uncomplicated yet comprehensive insurance to suit your clients' needs in terms of both cover and budget. We provide our group clients with even greater flexibility by offering a number of options with each plan.

Clients can chose between different levels of benefits, excesses, hospitals, and travel insurance and these options can even be different for each employee. Starting with the comprehensive cover of the Plan 1 through to the budget option of Plan 4.

Benefits

Key Facts - In-patient & Day Case Charges

Hospital accommodation charges including theatre fees, nursing costs, prosthesis, in-patient drugs & dressings
Full cover
Surgeon / Consultant / Specialist & Anaesthetists fees
Full cover - subject to fees being reasonable and customary
Physicians fees & diagnostic tests
Full cover
Cancer Treatment Costs - Chemotherapy / Radiotherapy
Full cover
Psychiatric treatment
Full cover (for up to 28 days for in-patient psychiatric treatment per policy year)
Six week option
Not available

Key Facts - Out-patient Charges

Complementary medicine
Full cover with up to 20 sessions by GP referral per person, per policy year, thereafter referrals must be made by a Specialist / Consultant
Diagnostic tests (excluding scans)
Full cover
GP referred consultations
Full cover
Physiotherapy consultant referred
Full cover
Physiotherapy GP referred
Full cover with up to 20 sessions by GP referral per person, per policy year, thereafter referrals must be made by a Specialist / Consultant
Psychiatric cover
£1,250 per person, per policy year (for acute conditions)
Radiotherapy / Chemotherapy
Full cover
Scans - MRI / CT / PET
Full cover
Surgical Procedures
Full cover

Key Facts - Additional Benefits

NHS cash benefit
£200 per night (following treatment as an NHS patient* up to a maximum of £6,000 pa) NHS Day Care benefit £150 per claim*
Nursing at home
Full cover with consultant's approval only if following a period of covered in-patient treatment (Limitations apply refer to member guide)
Parental accommodation
Full cover for a parent to accompany a child up to age 16. Plus £100 a night up to 5 nights for a close relative stay in a hotel
Primary care
Not covered
Private ambulance
£1,000 per person, per policy year for transport to / from a hospital for medical reasons

Additional Benefits

Alcohol & drug abuse
Not covered
Annual maximum limit
No annual maximum
Children covered
children can be covered as dependants on a policy until the renewal date following their 25th birthday
Chiropractors & Osteopaths
Full cover
Dental treatment
Specified oral procedures only in hospital
Discretionary Benefit Option (DBO)
Not covered
GP minor surgery
Full cover
GP Referred Chiropody, Podiatry or Homeopathy
Only Homeopathy - Full cover
Hospice donation
Cancer only - £75 per day to hospice & £75 per day to member
Infertility investigations
Not covered
Maternity cash benefit
Twins Benefit = £1,500 or Triplets Benefit = £2,000
Optional cash benefit
Not covered
Out of pocket expenses
Not covered
Overseas cover
Not covered
Personal & total disability benefit
Not covered
Post hospital recovery bonus
Not covered
Pregnancy
Full cover for specified abnormal pregnancy conditions
Stress counselling helpline
24-hour claims stress counselling and medical advice line. Only available to members aged 16 years or over
Transplants
Not covered
Other benefits
Cancer Enhancements
Comprehensive cover enhancments when associated with cancer treatment:
* up to £5,000 per policy year - Provision of external prosthesis
* up to £150 per policy year - Purchase of wigs
* New/experimental procedures - these will now be reviewed by the clinical team and considered for benefit
* Experimental drug treatment - will be covered if part of an ethical trial and pre-agreed by us
* Cancer follow-ups - No limit on cancer follow ups.
* Radiotherapy and chemotherapy cash benefit - £50 up to £2,000 per year when you receive free treatment that would have been eligible for benefit privately
 
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