Visana Med Direct
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Family doctor model
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Primary care: family doctor
General
General information:
Health insurance model «Visana Med Direct» of the Swiss insurance company Visana.
Health insurance model:
Family doctor model: When you use a family doctor policy, you are required to visit your relevant family doctor first. Your doctor may then refer you to specialists, therapists or hospitals. A primary consultation from your doctor is not necessary in the event of medical emergencies, gynecological examinations and treatments by eye doctors.
Choice of doctor:
Your choice of family doctor is limited to just one doctor from the Visana doctor list.
Medical partner:
Doccare, Docnet, Hawa, Luganocare, mednetbern, Monvia, Seelandnet, Zürcher Gesundheitsnetz.
Pharmacy choice:
You get free choice of pharmacy
Payment methods:
20% of payments are made using the tiers garant payment method, in which you pay and claim reimbursement.
80% of payments are tiers payant, meaning the bills are paid directly by the insurance (Visana).
80% of payments are tiers payant, meaning the bills are paid directly by the insurance (Visana).
Reimbursement:
The average waiting period before tiers garant reimbursement from Visana is 8 days.
Financial reserves:
The solvency ratio shows how available financial reserves compare to Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH) minimum reserve requirements. The solvency ratio of Visana is 216% (according to FOPH data). The minimum ratio required by the FOPH is 100%.
Number of policyholders:
A total of 492,036 people hold compulsory health insurance policies from Visana.
Additional child-discount:
Visana provides additional premium reductions from the third child onwards.
Administrative costs:
3.6% (ratio of adminstrative costs to risk-adjusted premiums as per BAG data).
Administrative costs per policyholder:
CHF 161 (as per the most recent BAG data).
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