Insurers roll out refill-type health coverage with limits up to 1 billion won

  • Insurers are launching health policies that replenish treatment coverage limits.
  • Treatment coverage can reach up to 1 billion Korean won.
  • Insurers replenish limits after 10 or 20 years, depending on the product.

South Korean insurers are expanding health policies that replenish treatment coverage limits, allowing repeated payouts for serious illnesses instead of relying solely on one-time diagnosis benefits. DB Insurance introduced such coverage last month for cancer, brain and heart diseases, restoring the original limits 10 years after enrollment regardless of claims. Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance added a similar system to its July-launched ON Tongbojang product, covering specified treatment costs across disease categories and replenishing limits every 10 years. Kyobo Life Insurance’s Kyobo Re-fill Health Whole Life Insurance, released last month, sets treatment-cost limits of up to 10 times the basic enrollment amount. The trend began last year with Heungkuk Fire & Marine Insurance’s Platinum Health Reset Wallet, which provides up to 1 billion Korean won for specified treatment, hospitalization and nursing-care costs and replenishes the limit every 20 years upon contract renewal. Insurers are responding to demand for multiple payouts as cancer and other serious-disease treatments become more prolonged. The maximum advertised amount combines payouts for treatments such as surgery, anticancer therapy and hospitalization; actual benefits depend on the treatment, per-treatment amounts and annual payout limits.

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