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Our health insurance plans

Health insurance designed with New Zealanders in mind

Whether you're after health insurance to cover major medical expenses and specialist consultations, or everyday cover for those day-to-day medical expenses, Southern Cross Health Insurance is here to help.

We have a range of health insurance plans and wellbeing modules that offer different benefits. You can also add family members to your health insurance policy and protect your whole family. Our child rates apply up to 21 years old, and we offer discounts for larger families too.


Day-to-day cover

HealthEssentials

HealthEssentials is a day-to-day health cover plan, designed to help you actively manage
your health:

  • Provides cover for 75% of the cost of eligible healthcare services. Policy terms, conditions and exclusions apply*
  • Cover includes GP and nurse services, dental care, optometrist consultations, prescription glasses and more


Surgical cover plans

Wellbeing One

Wellbeing One is a standard surgical plan which includes cover (subject to policy terms and conditions*) for:

  • Specialist consultations within 6 months of eligible surgical treatment, chemotherapy or radiotherapy
  • Diagnostic imaging and tests within 6 months of eligible surgical treatment, chemotherapy or radiotherapy
  • Cancer treatment
  • Surgical treatment
  • Recovery services within 6 months of related eligible surgical treatment, chemotherapy or radiotherapy
  • Support services

Some healthcare services must be performed by an Affiliated Provider.


Wellbeing Two

Wellbeing Two is a comprehensive surgical plan which includes cover (subject to policy terms and conditions*) for:

  • Specialist consultations at any time
  • Diagnostic imaging and tests at any time
  • Laboratory tests
  • Cancer treatment
  • Surgical treatment
  • Recovery services within 6 months of related eligible surgical treatment, chemotherapy or radiotherapy
  • Support services
  • Obstetrics allowance (after one year of continuous cover)

Some healthcare services must be performed by an Affiliated Provider.


UltraCare

UltraCare is a premium surgical and day-to-day healthcare plan for those who want the highest level of coverage and flexibility. It includes cover (subject to policy terms and conditions*) for:

  • Qualifying pre-existing conditions after 3 years of continuous cover
  • Day-to-day treatment
    (e.g. GP appointments)
  • Flexibility to choose a healthcare provider outside of our Affiliated Provider network
  • Specialist consultations at any time
  • Diagnostic imaging and tests at any time
  • Laboratory tests
  • Cancer treatment
  • Surgical treatment
  • Recovery and Support services
  • Obstetrics allowance (after one year of continuous cover)

UltraCare 400 provides the same cover as the UltraCare plan, with extra cover for prescription glasses, prescription contact lenses and dental treatment.



Shared cover plans

We have two shared cover plans: KiwiCare and RegularCare. Shared cover means you and Southern Cross each pay some of the costs of the healthcare services you receive.

KiwiCare

KiwiCare provides members with a contribution of up to 80% of the cost of eligible healthcare services (subject to policy terms and conditions*) including:

  • Specialist consultations at any time
  • Diagnostic imaging and tests at any time
  • Cancer treatment
  • Surgical treatment
  • Some recovery within 6 months of related eligible surgical treatment
  • Chemotherapy or radiotherapy and support

Some healthcare services must be performed by an Affiliated Provider.


RegularCare

RegularCare, provides members with a contribution of up to 80% of the cost of eligible healthcare services and day-to-day cover (subject to policy terms and conditions*) including:

  • Specialist consultations at any time
  • Diagnostic imaging and tests at any time
  • Cancer treatment
  • Surgical treatment
  • Some recovery within 6 months of related eligible surgical treatment
  • Chemotherapy or radiotherapy and support
  • GP visits, prescriptions, physiotherapy, and hearing tests

Some healthcare services must be performed by an Affiliated Provider.



Additional cancer support

Cancer Cover Plus can be added to your plan as an upgrade of the chemotherapy for cancer cover under your base plan. This includes cover for both Pharmac approved chemotherapy drugs and chemotherapy drugs that are not Pharmac approved but are Medsafe-indicated.

Cancer Cover Plus is fully underwritten (pre-existing condition concessions do not apply), subject to eligibility criteria and is only available to purchase where all members on a policy are under 60 years old.


Wellbeing modules

Wellbeing modules can be added to the Wellbeing plans to access cover for everyday healthcare services. See the available Wellbeing modules on Wellbeing One and Wellbeing Two.

Extra cover options

Cancer Assist and Critical Illness plans can also be purchased with your health insurance plan (excluding HealthEssentials). Policy terms and conditions, including eligibility criteria apply. Find out more on the plan page for each of these plans.


Compare plans and get a quote

If you want an easy way to compare our plans, try our plan comparison and quote tool. Answer a few basic questions about you and your family and the tool will show you how our different plans compare. You can see the main benefits of each plan and how adding or changing an excess could change your health insurance premium to suit your budget. 

*For full details on the policy terms and conditions including policy maximums and exclusions which apply to each plan, please refer to the policy documents which are available to view on our plan pages.


Need more help in finding the right health insurance for you?

Call us on 0800 100 555

Our team are happy to help:
Monday to Thursday 9:00am - 5:00pm
Friday 9:00am - 4:30pm