The future of top-up health insurance policies could be in doubt according to a new report by the Dutch central bank DNB. The top up policies, which cover dental care, physiotherapy and alternative medicine, are commercial products and insurance...
Research by the Dutch consumers authority ACM and national health council NZ shows that consumers can save up to €100 a year on their health insurance costs by shopping around for a better deal. There are savings averaging €100 per year per...
Some Dutch health insurance companies are cloning their basic policies and offering them for different prices under different labels, according to the Dutch consumers association Consumentenbond. The 50 different insurance companies in the...
Three quarters of health insurance polices taken out by the Dutch only cover patients completely if they visit a healthcare practitioner who has a contract with the insurer, new figures show. Just under 20% have opted to have complete freedom to...
The four parties in talks on forming a new Dutch government do not want the planned rise in the health insurance own-risk element to go up to €400. Chief negotiator Gerrit Zalm has written to health minister Edith Schippers to say the four parties...
Expats and internationals may complain about Dutch healthcare, but in global terms we are pretty lucky – at least that is how the Netherlands appears in various healthcare rankings. In May 2017, the Lancet Magazine put the Netherlands in ninth...
There is a two-month window at the end of every year during which you can switch health insurance company. You’ll notice when it starts by all the adverts for health insurance companies appearing everywhere. Every year around 5% of policy holders...
Visits to your doctor are free but that’s about it. Prescriptions, specialists, hospital treatments – all of that will cost you. But you probably won’t be aware of it because the pharmacy and the hospital will send their bills to your...
If you have a low income, are single, and earn less than € 27.500 a year you will probably be able to claim healthcare benefits (zorgtoeslag) – about €6 a month if you are at the top of the scale but rising to €88 a month if you earn less...