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Name: Health Insurance
Rating: 1.95 (172 reviews)

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1.81

Based on 172 reviews, last reviewed 20th Jan 2025

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Latest highest rating:

5

I’d like you to contact me about life insurance I’d like you to contact me about life insurance Reviewed on: 9th September 2024

Latest lowest rating:

1

Absolutely useless. Absolutely useless. Not worth it in the slightest and I get it for free through work. #FreeLuigi Reviewed on: 20th January 2025

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Aviva health insurance gives policyholders access to 100s of hospitals across the country, allowing you to choose where you’ll be treated. There are three levels of cover available: Core, Advance and Reduce. Policyholders can access a range of wellbeing services, including healthy eating advice and gym membership discounts.

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Find out how long policyholders have had their health insurance with Aviva and how satisfied they’ve been so far. Learn what is and isn’t covered under the health insurance policy to decide if it suits your requirements. Read about genuine experiences with the customer service team to learn how swiftly Aviva resolves customer concerns. Find out more about the wellbeing services available and how often existing customers use them. Make an informed decision about your new policy by reading our Aviva health insurance reviews.

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Aviva Health Insurance reviews (172)

Review of the Aviva, Health Insurance:

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Used them for a few years with work as part of my health insurance benefit. Never had any problems! Reviewed on: 12th March 2016

The Worst! - try to wheedle out of paying legitiate clam

I took out Aviva Healthcare for me and my wife in April Last year - they asked about any conditions or treatments in the prior 5 years - I confirmed hat there weren't any. I renewed the policy last month and initiated a claim as my doctor had recommended a colonoscopy (Due to my dad dying of Bowel cancer 12 yrs ago), when I started the claim, they looked at my records and saw that I had previously had a colonoscopy July 10th 2016 - 6 Years ago.... they refused to honour the claim stating that I had had a a investigation (Which found nothing) withn 5 Years... I pointd out that it was 6 years ago... and they defaulted to he start date of he policy - April 24th 2021 - which was 4 Years and 10 months after my previous investigation ... and have now said that as I consulted my doctor.. I would have to wait another 5 years before they would consider covering this procedure how is this effective preventative support... in five years, a Polyp can go from being harmless to stage 4 inoperable cancer!!! Reviewed on: 3rd May 2022

Avoid like the plague

Dreadful service. From the first call, their attitude was ‘how are we going to get out of this?’ Wish I’d stuck with BUPA. Reviewed on: 20th April 2022

Thieves

This Company took over my previouse insurer. I have been with them for 40 years and currently pay them £650 a month. You take insurance out for those occasiions when you need medical help especially life saving. A number of times over the last 40 years I have had to pay up to £3600 out of my own pocket. Now they have given 6 months notice they won't cover my heart condition. With insurance some people claim and some people like my wife never claim. Thats why we insure in the first place. This company is a disgrace and I wish I had never heard of them. If your thinking of useing them DON'T you will be sorry. Once they refuse treatment it's to late to go somewhere else and you can die for all they care. Reviewed on: 15th April 2022

Any means not pay

I cannot recommend this company based on my own experience, when I needed them most they basically called me a liar (without actually saying it) and said they couldn't pay based on we couldn't prove when the illness started, even though it was on my doctors record. Avoid these charlatan's. Reviewed on: 4th April 2022

Sneaky and dishonest

I have had numerous surgeries from 2010 so felt I would like to cover me and my husband going forward as we got older. I have only had call to phone in two years (and £3000) and have been dismissed by automaton customer service reps both times, who turn a genuine query or request for mere advice, into an interrogation about how long you have experienced symptoms, with the sole purpose to stitch you up by inferring everything is before you were insured, so you're not covered. As an extreme example I asked the representative if I came to them with a brain tumour, would me having a headache when I was seven count as a pre-existing condition, and, to her robotic credit, she said it would depend on my policy. Avoid. Reviewed on: 29th March 2022

Terrible Service. Waste of Money

Terrible service. You pay for health insurance make a claim and they just ignore you. Health insurance is supposed to make things quicker and easier to get medical care. Not with Aviva. Its just an exceptionally stressful experience. Reviewed on: 28th February 2022

Not worth the paper

The claims authorisation process is very long and drawn out. They will try their hardest to make claiming difficult for genuine and fully covered incidents. We have cancelled and concluded that self funding medical insurance is the way forward. Reviewed on: 10th February 2022

Terrible Service. Should be illegal

The whole experience is dreadful. Beware - there are much better providers out there from my experience... Reviewed on: 24th January 2022

Avoid. Just awful.

Was told my procedure was authorised. Took my full years premium.£3K Then told me I shouldn't have been told it was authorised. Silly mistake by the claims advisor. Sorry. Won't honour it even though they agree it's recorded on the call. I've dealt with many health insurance companies. Aviva health is by far the worst. Other reviewers agree. But Aviva make sure that their Trustpilot reviews appear on any websearch because those are artificially high. Reviewed on: 19th January 2022

Hopeless Service

I joined about 5 months ago. Recently I tried to get a doctors appointment via the AvivaGP App. It took many days to secure an appointment. When I queried this I was told that they don’t have enough doctors to meet customer demand so were busily recruiting. I eventually secured an appointment for the following week but the doctor didn’t turn up for the appointment (which was via the app). I complained and was told that the doctor had to deal with an unexpected personal issue and the support team hadn’t got round to rearranging the appointment. Aviva customer service staff said this was a one-off and rearranged another appointment for me. For the new appointment I was given a 30 minute time period and told that a doctor would phone me during that period. I made sure and had a strong signal and waited for the phone call at the agreed time. 40 minutes later the doctor never called. From my experience in am not convinced that Aviva have any doctors supporting their service. I have no confidence in them providing any level of service but they are efficient at taking your money every month Reviewed on: 5th January 2022

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