TUH, part of the Teachers Health Group
Bronze+ Hospital $500 excess
Restricted Insurer
$262.16 / month
(Before Rebate, Discount & Loading)
Available in NT
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You may be entitled to an Australian Government Rebate on the above premium. Your premium may also include a Lifetime Health Cover Loading, an Age-based Discount or an insurer discount. Check with your insurer for details.
This policy covers: One adult & dependants, including non-student dependants (2 or more people, only one of whom is an adult).
Children (0 - 17), non-classified* dependant (18 - 20), students (21 - 31) and non-students (21 to 31), as well as persons with a disability who qualify as a child, non-classified* dependant, student and non-student in these age ranges. *Non-classified dependant: A child of the primary member or their partner who is between the ages of 18 and 20 and does not themselves have a partner.
Restricted insurer: Membership of this insurer is restricted to current or former union members and their families.
Policy ID: QTU/BE/DDBI1Y
Hospital Cover
- This policy exempts you from the Medicare Levy Surcharge.
- This policy provides accident cover - check with insurer for details.
- This policy does not provide benefits for travel or accommodation outside of hospital.
Covered
Restricted Cover
Not Covered
This policy includes cover for
Blood
Bone, joint and muscle
Brain and nervous system
Breast surgery (medically necessary)
Chemotherapy, radiotherapy and immunotherapy for cancer
Dental surgery
Diabetes management (excluding insulin pumps)
Digestive system
Ear, nose and throat
Eye (not cataracts)
Gastrointestinal endoscopy
Gynaecology
Hernia and appendix
Hospital psychiatric services
Joint reconstructions
Kidney and bladder
Lung and chest
Male reproductive system
Miscarriage and termination of pregnancy
Pain management
Palliative care
Plastic and reconstructive surgery (medically necessary)
Rehabilitation
Skin
Sleep studies
Tonsils, adenoids and grommets
This policy does not include cover for
Assisted reproductive services
Back, neck and spine
Cataracts
Dialysis for chronic kidney failure
Heart and vascular system
Implantation of hearing devices
Insulin pumps
Joint replacements
Pain management with device
Podiatric surgery (provided by a registered podiatric surgeon)
Pregnancy and birth
Weight loss surgery
The benefits paid for hospital treatment will depend on the type of cover you purchase and whether your fund has an agreement in place with the hospital in which you are treated. See ‘Agreement Hospitals’ on privatehealth.gov.au for which hospitals have arrangements with your insurer – https://privatehealth.gov.au/dynamic/agreementhospitals.
Under this policy, you may have to pay out-of-pocket costs above what you get from Medicare or your private health insurer. Before you go to hospital, you should ask your doctors, hospital and health insurer about any out-of-pocket costs that may apply to you.
The following payments may also apply for hospital admissions
Excess: You will have to pay an excess on admission. This is limited to a maximum of $500 per person per year.
Excess payments do not apply to hospital admissions for dependants.
Co-payments: No co-payments
The following waiting periods for hospital admissions apply to new or upgrading members
Waiting periods:
- 2 months for palliative care, rehabilitation and hospital psychiatric treatments, even if pre-existing
- 12 months for other pre-existing conditions
- 2 months for all other treatments
Gap Cover
This provider offers 'known gap' or 'no gap' cover for medical bills for this product. The Medical Costs Finder (https://www.health.gov.au/resources/apps-and-tools/medical-costs-finder) lets you find out more about the cost of specialist medical services.
Other features of this hospital cover
Value-added services: home care after hospital, chronic disease management programs, hospital substitute programs (conditions apply). **Accident cover for included service categories only. An excess is applied once per adult per calendar year. The hospital excess is waived for dependants. Reducing your excess is considered to be upgrading your membership. We will charge your previous excess within the first two months of the upgrade, including for adults who are upgrading their level of cover by joining/re-joining as a dependant on a family membership.
For further information about this policy see: https://tuh.com.au/hospital/bronze-plus-hospital
Ambulance cover
In NT this policy provides:
Emergency: Unlimited with a waiting period of 1 day.
Non-emergency: Unlimited transport with a waiting period of 1 day, or 1 day for pre-existing conditions.
Call-out fees: Will be paid for each attendance, including emergency treatment without transport to hospital.
Other features of this ambulance cover: Members who have COMBINED HOSPITAL AND EXTRAS COVER are entitled to emergency ambulance services benefits. No annual limit will apply to emergency road ambulance services. State-owned air ambulance transportation services are covered up to $6,000 per person per annum. From 1 Jan 2022, members who have eligible stand-alone extras cover may claim the cost of a third-party ambulance subscription fee from the Health Program benefit category (sub-limits apply).
For further information about this policy see: https://tuh.com.au/information/glossary/ambulance
Insurer Details
TUH, part of the Teachers Health Group
Bronze+ Hospital $500 excess
Restricted Insurer
$262.16 / month
(Before Rebate, Discount & Loading)
Available in NT
Disclaimer: This document is not a Private Health Information Statement (PHIS), and it is not intended to replace that document. The details contained in the healthslips.com.au Policy Information was provided by the insurer to the Australian Government. It is intended as general information. It may not take into account your circumstances. For further information contact the insurer. Information used is Licensed from the Commonwealth of Australia under a Creative Commons 3.0 licence.Private Health Information Statement is available from the Private Health Insurance Ombudsman website at https://privatehealth.gov.au/dynamic/Premium/PHIS/QTU/BE/DDBI1Y
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