There’s good news for 2021, because premiums are set to remain stable for most customers. You’ll find the most important changes here.
There’s good news for around 53% of Sanitas customers and 19% of Compact customers, as their basic insurance premiums remain the same.
In terms of premium adjustments, Sanitas will be slightly above the market average in the next year. Across all Swiss health insurers, the average premium increase in 2021 will be 0.5% on the average premium.
There’s good news for young adults, too: 19 to 25-year-olds continue to benefit from attractive premium discounts..
Please note that numerous factors can affect your premium (fictitious examples):
Premium region
Your health insurance premium depends on the premium region you live in. The Federal Department of Home Affairs (EDI) decides which municipality belongs to which premium region.
Insurance model
If you choose an alternative insurance model for your basic insurance, you benefit from discounts and a central point of contact for health queries. The discount varies depending on the model you choose.
Elective deductible
By choosing a higher deductible than the standard one, you can save money on premiums, but you also bear a greater financial risk in case of illness. For children up to age 18 the minimum deductible is CHF 0.
You also have to consider whether you need to addaccident insurance: If you work for more than eight hours a week with the same employer, you have accident cover through your employer pursuant to the UVG/LAA and don’t need to include accident cover under your basic health insurance.
You’ll find your premium in the policy document that you receive in October.
There are various basic insurance models that offer the same benefits. The only thing you can choose is who you want to contact first for health matters. The greater the cost savings the model achieves by optimising treatment pathways, the higher the premium discount compared with the standard insurance model:
Sanitas offers the maximum possible discounts for deductibles. Choosing a higher deductible automatically lowers your monthly premium, enabling you to save more than CHF 1,500 a year. This option makes most sense if you rarely go to the doctor or normally use the Medgate medical hotline. Bear in mind that you have to be able to cover costs up to the amount of your deductible plus the maximum copayment of CHF 700.
You can adjust your deductible quickly and easily in the customer portal. You can see instantly how your premium changes with a higher deductible.
Sanitas has decided to standardise the discounts for children. In concrete terms, this means that the discount has been slightly increased for the first child and slightly reduced from the second child onwards. This way all children benefit from the same discount. Standardised discount:
As of 1 January 2021, Sanitas will offer three discount variants for the NetMed basic insurance model. Sanitas wants its customers to be able to participate more transparently in the cost savings generated by the different networks of physicians. You can benefit from different discounts depending on the family doctor or practice you choose.
The handy doctor locatorshows you quickly and easily which discount variant your medical contact is assigned to.
Premiums for most of our customers will remain the same or change only slightly. For supplementary insurance, the situation depends on your chosen product line or plan.
Premiums for the following supplementary and hospital insurance plans in our current sales lines remain stable in 2021:
There are changes for the following supplementary insurance plans (list not exhaustive):