| Dental and Optical |
€80* |
Included |
Included |
| Half the cost of all dental care including check-up as well as providing cash for sight tests and optical appliances (eg glasses and contact lenses). You can choose to take this benefit, for both categories, according to your own need. It is payable between all registered persons in any 12 consecutive calendar months. Benefit shown is the maximum benefit. Qualifying period: 3 months. |
| Practitioner: physiotherapy, osteopathy, chiropractic, acupuncture, homoeopathy, chiropody/podiatry |
€130* |
Included |
Included |
| Half the cost of consultation and treatment (not including medication or appliances) by a qualified and registered practitioner up to the maximum shown. This benefit may be used according to your own need for all categories. It is payable between all registered persons in any 12 consecutive calendar months. Qualification period: 3 months. |
| Specialist and investigations |
€260* |
Included |
Included |
| Half the cost of specialists' consultation fees, allergy testing, health screening, pathology tests, x-rays, scans, electrocardiograms and other investigations listed in the rules, all undertaken on an outpatient basis, up to the maximum shown. It is payable between all registered persons in any 12 consecutive calendar months. Qualification period: 3 months. |
| Day case surgery and treatment |
€20
a day |
€10
a day |
€10
a day |
| For a planned admission to occupy a bed for a day in a hospital or clinic to undergo surgery, treatment or a procedure. Limited to 8 occasions within any 12 consecutive calendar months for each eligible registered person. Qualifying period: 3 months. |
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Hospital and hospice
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€20
a night |
€10
a night |
€10
a night |
| A hospital grant for each night you are hospitalised. |
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General and hospice
For an inpatient admission to a hospital or hospice. Payable to each eligible registered person for up to 40 nights in any 12 consecutive calendar months. Qualifying period: 3 months.
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Accident
For an inpatient admission to a hospital immediately following an accident. Payable to each eligible registered person for up to 40 nights in any 12 consecutive calendar months. No qualifying period.
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Elderly and mental illness
For an inpatient admission to a hospital for elderly medical care/long stay/rehabilitation/respite/GP care or for a mental illness. Payable to each eligible registered person for up to 50 nights for elderly and 50 nights for mental illness from first registration, but not for more than 40 nights in a 12 month period. Qualifying period: 3 months.
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Increased Benefit
Should a contributor and spouse/partner be inpatients at the same time (in the same or a different hospital), the contributor and not the dependant rate of hospital benefit will be paid for both for the appropriate number of nights.
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| Recuperation - After 7 Nights |
€50 |
€25 |
€25 |
| A recuperation grant is payable for each eligible registered person following each stay in a hospital or hospice for which benefit has been paid for a minimum of 7 nights. |
| Recuperation - After 15 Nights |
€75 |
€37 |
€37 |
| A recuperation grant is payable for each eligible registered person following each stay in a hospital or hospice for which benefit has been paid for a minimum of 15 nights. |
| Birth and adoption grant |
€125 |
Included |
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| Payable to the contributor, whether mother or father of the child, for each registered birth in hospital or at home. Hospital cover benefit is payable in addition to the grant from the sixth night onwards. The grant is also payable for a registered adoption up to the age of 10. Qualifying period: 10 months. |
| Surgical appliances and hearing aids |
€95* |
Included |
Included |
| Half the cost of a surgical appliance or hearing aid, prescribed or recommended by a doctor (or a practitioner, eg. a physiotherapist, who has treated the contributor or dependant, and the appliance forms part of that treatment), up to the maximum shown. Payable between all eligible registered persons in any 12 consecutive calendar months. Qualification period: 3 months. |
| * half the cost up to the maximum |
