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TUH, part of the Teachers Health Group

Silver+ No Pregnancy Hospital $750 excess

Restricted Insurer

$462.85 / month

(Before Rebate, Discount & Loading)

Available in QLD

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: Two adults & dependants (3 or more people, only 2 of whom are adults).

Children (0 - 17), non-classified* dependant (18 - 20) and students (21 - 31), as well as persons with a disability who qualify as a child, non-classified* dependant and 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/RF/QCWA2D

Source: Private Health Information Statement (PHIS)

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
Back, neck and spine
Blood
Bone, joint and muscle
Brain and nervous system
Breast surgery (medically necessary)
Cataracts
Chemotherapy, radiotherapy and immunotherapy for cancer
Dental surgery
Diabetes management (excluding insulin pumps)
Dialysis for chronic kidney failure
Digestive system
Ear, nose and throat
Eye (not cataracts)
Gastrointestinal endoscopy
Gynaecology
Heart and vascular system
Hernia and appendix
Hospital psychiatric services
Implantation of hearing devices
Insulin pumps
Joint reconstructions
Joint replacements
Kidney and bladder
Lung and chest
Male reproductive system
Miscarriage and termination of pregnancy
Pain management
Pain management with device
Palliative care
Plastic and reconstructive surgery (medically necessary)
Podiatric surgery (provided by a registered podiatric surgeon)
Rehabilitation
Skin
Sleep studies
Tonsils, adenoids and grommets

This policy does not include cover for

Assisted reproductive services
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 $750 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/silver-plus-no-pregnancy-hospital

Ambulance cover

Ambulance cover is provided by the State government for Queensland residents (https://www.ambulance.qld.gov.au). This includes cover whilst interstate.

Other features of this ambulance cover: All permanent Queensland residents are covered under the State scheme delivered by Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS), including interstate travel, therefore no additional benefit is payable. Benefits may be payable for state-owned air ambulance services where charges are not payable by QAS ($6,000 per person per annum limit applies).

For further information about this policy see: https://tuh.com.au/information/glossary/ambulance

Insurer Details

TUH, part of the Teachers Health Group

Silver+ No Pregnancy Hospital $750 excess

Restricted Insurer

$462.85 / month

(Before Rebate, Discount & Loading)

Available in QLD

TUH, part of the Teachers Health Group

https://tuh.com.au/

enquiries@tuh.com.au

1300 360 701

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/RF/QCWA2D