Westfund's Starter Extras option is the winner of the 2024 Core Extras category. To get our final extras insurance scores, we added together the price and features scores and weighted them 50:50. Westfund's Starter Extras came out on top.
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The third highest ranking policy in the comprehensive extras category, Westfund's High Extras policy is designed for mature singles and couples. The policy provides generous per-person limits on optical, dental, physiotherapy, chiro, and a range of other therapies.
Full list of 2024 winnersWestfund Health is the only health fund exclusively serving the Australian nursing and midwifery community. It offers a suite of hospital and extras covers that can be selected individually or combined into a package to provide cover that suits your unique needs.
Westfund is good if:
You're living in Australia from overseas and you want hospital cover.
Westfund is not great if:
Review by our insurance and innovations editor Gary Ross Hunter
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Westfund also offers standalone ambulance health insurance and includes it in all of its hospital policies.
What is covered:
We looked at the 2022 Ombudsman health insurance complaints. Here's how Westfund stacked up:
This chart shows the weighted volume of complaints received by each health fund, according to the Commonwealth Ombudsman. The lower the number, the better. Only non-restricted funds with a national market share of at least 0.1% are included here. Westfund is eleventh overall in this ranking. The weighting ensures that funds are compared fairly; larger funds serve more customers so can potentially get more complaints.
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