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Prompt access to diagnostics

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Diagnostics Only cover option

Waiting for a health condition to be diagnosed can be an extremely worrying time. This option, when included with your business health insurance, gets you fast access to diagnostics if you or one of your employees becomes unwell. There’s more choice over the time, day and location of appointments, making everything easier to manage – for you and your team.

The Diagnostics Only option cannot be purchased with the Treatment option.

Quick to find out what’s wrong

  • If someone on your team develops a condition or illness, they can go private for a prompt diagnosis (a GP referral is required). 
  • We’ll cover up to two specialist consultations per year, plus the diagnostic tests the specialist refers your employee for.
  • If they need an outpatient diagnostic surgical procedure to find out what’s wrong, we’ll pay for this.
  • We’ll also pay for outpatient CT, MRI and PET scans they might need – in full when carried out at a facility in our directory of hospitals.

Quick to start getting better

Melanie is 33 and owns her own landscape gardening business based in Bath. Melanie has been experiencing severe pain in her back for the past few months which has been affecting her ability to carry out her job. As Melanie’s job is very hands on, she’s had to take a lot of time off which has meant that she has had to turn down new contracts. After receiving a referral from her GP, Melanie visited her specialist for a consultation and was referred for an MRI scan on her back to try to identify the cause of her pain. As she had the Diagnostics Only option on her small business health insurance, Melanie was able to skip the NHS waiting list and have her MRI scan at a private hospital close to home. She was also able to have a consultation with a specialist who talked her through her diagnosis and suggested what her treatment plan might be.

What this option will pay for

  • Outpatient specialist consultations: up to two of these a year.

  • CT, MRI and PET scans, under a specialist referral: paid in full if your employees scans take place at a scanning centre (or hospital listed as a scanning centre) in the plan's hospital list If they happen at a centre not listed in our directory, we’ll pay up to the normal daily rates for these.
  • Diagnostic tests when your specialist refers you: no yearly limit.

  • Outpatient diagnostic surgical procedures: there’s no yearly limit on these – whatever it takes to find out what’s wrong.
More cover options

We’re proud that our Business Health plan has been rated 5 stars and our Business Protect plan has been rated 4 stars by independent financial information business, Defaqto. The Defaqto ratings are based on an assessment of the overall product including all options. If some of the options are not selected, this will affect the product’s star rating.

What's not covered?

As with most private healthcare plans, there are exclusions and limitations. If you'd like to find out more about what is and isn't covered, call us on 0800 389 7413* or request a callback. 

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