Thai Health Insurance

niggle · Professional Joined: 27 Nov 2006 Posts: 496

ANyone use Thai Health Insurance - Wealth Healthy / Simply Healthy plans ?
Any good. Comments needed

Nereus · Guru Joined: 02 Jan 2007 Posts: 568 Location: Hua Hin

hogus · Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 8:22 pm Post subject:

There are a lot of Health Insurances!
Sometimes they're combined as health & life-insurances.

Try the following link for a better overview and some detailed informations:

http://www.thainakarin.co.th/en_listinsure.php

STEVE G · Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 3:03 pm Post subject:

BANGKOK - Thai police are charging a man with deliberately cutting off his own thumb to claim 16 million baht (457,000 dollars) in medical insurance, media reports said Monday.

Pichet Porntantipong, 38, a former insurance salesman, earlier this year made medical and compensation claims worth 16 million baht from 30 different insurance companies for allegedly having severed part of his left thumb while chopping up pork bones, said the Bangkok Post newspaper.

Pichet told the companies that his severed digit fell into the burning stove, making reattachment impossible.

One of the companies, Siam Commercial Samaggi Insurance Company, smelling something fishy, has accused Pichet of lodging a false claim.

The Bangkok Post quoted acting Crime Suppression Police chief Pongpat Chayaphan as saying Pichet, a native of Phuket Island, was to be charged with fraud on Monday.
(DPA)

da · Specialist Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 160

Regarding Health insurance I hear San Paolo will not accept Webster universities plan for its students and instead requires out of pocket payment for services. This was on the schools own hometown media blog.

Maybe this had been corrected since but the problem in the article was from January 2007.
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prcscct · Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 7:17 pm Post subject:

It's not unusual anywhere in Thailand for a hospital not to accept a particular insurance company for direct billing. Most, not many, require patient payment up front then the patient files a claim with his/her insurance carrier for reimbursement. BUPA I think is an exception. Most Thai hospitals seem agreeable to bill them direct. Pete Cheers

PS: It's like many other things here. If people don't force the issue, the Thai's will go the fastest way to the cash. 3% service charges when using a credit card is another example of illegal activity. With that one, many establishments have lost their Visa, MC and AMEX rights when customers complained about being bill the %.

da · Specialist Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 160

I have Allianz now but I agree the Thai's are more like show me the money.
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