Expacare

Expacare’s Choices Worldwide offer coverage in Southeast Asia or worldwide. Based in the United Kingdom and backed by Lloyd’s of London. 

Key Features

Personal Discounts

$170 deductible
5%
$425 deductible
10%
$850 deductible
15%

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Frequently Asked Questions

The Expacare Choices plans for Southeast Asia are available to expats and locals up to age 64 who reside in the following countries: Brunei, Myanmar, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Christmas Island, East Timor

If you live outside these countries, there are other options available from Expacare.

The Expacare Choices plans offer unrivaled discounts for healthy lifestyles — up to 25%.

All private insurance plans will cover you for illnesses and injuries that require overnight hospitalization for treatment (inpatient cover). Most also offer optional coverage for routine outpatient, maternity or dental expenses.

The types of inpatient expenses covered are fairly standard across the industry, including room and board, surgeries and treatment, hospitalization, emergency evacuation. There is more variability among the optional coverages; typically, greater benefits will trigger higher premiums.

Policies are managed on an annual basis: you pay premiums for a year of coverage and the insurer pays for your eligible expenses up to an annual limit.

Expacare Choices plans offer premium coverage, with excellent discounts.

  • Inpatient only limits: $1,700,000 to $8,500,000
  • Outpatient limits: $2,550 to the Inpatient limit
  • Maternity limits: $11,050 to $25,500
  • Dental limits: $1.275 to $2,550

Expacare Choices plans offer 3 coverage areas:

  • Southeast Asia (excluding Singapore)
  • Worldwide (excluding USA and Caribbean)
  • Worldwide (not available to US nationals)

Outside this area, you are covered for unforeseen emergencies and illnesses while traveling for up to 6 weeks. The amount of this coverage will depend on which plan you choose, but the minimum is $34,000.

It’s important to understand that private health insurance is a for-profit business. People with pre-existing medical conditions represent a risk to profitability, since they are far more likely to make claims than people who are entirely healthy, which affects the bottom line. Insurers manage this risk in a number of ways.

Most insurers use medical underwriting to assess a potential customer’s risk based on medical history. Then they decide whether to:

  • Exclude certain conditions from the coverage of a policy
  • Impose a fee for covering specific conditions (called loading)
  • Cover certain conditions despite the risk, or offer to reassess a condition at a later date.

Some insurers offer a moratorium policy: people with conditions that aren’t chronic (persistent, recurring, incurable) can take advantage of this special type of policy, which excludes non-chronic conditions from coverage for typically 2 years before covering them.

Employer groups of certain sizes can qualify for a policy that disregards participants’ medical history. This is the only way to cover certain conditions.

All Expacare policies are based on the full medical underwriting model. Applicants with significant pre-existing conditions, particularly chronic conditions, are sometimes denied coverage. Milder conditions are often accepted with loading.

Your insurance is managed on an annual basis. Like most products, health insurance is subject to price changes, usually in the form of premium increases based on a number of factors.

Since this is a for-profit business, changes are based in part on past-year performance (generally premiums minus claims plus overhead) and medical inflation.

All of Tenzing’s international health insurance offerings operate on what is called a community rating basis, which takes into account all the covered individuals in a geographic insurance plan — if the plan did well, premium increases will be low, and vice versa. Any premium or benefit changes apply to everyone in the plan.

Some insurers use an experience rating approach, which looks at whether each individual’s premiums exceeded their claims and makes adjustments accordingly. This approach can result in wildly differing changes.

Your age is also a significant factor in determining your premium — as you grow older, your health generally declines and your risk increases. So annual premium changes also reflect your age. The increase can be larger if the insurer uses age bands: imposing a larger increase at 5-year intervals rather than a smaller increase each year.

Expacare offers direct billing for inpatient services. This means that payment for treatment will be managed between the insurer and the hospital or clinic so that you don’t need to pay directly.

The Expacare network of direct billing partners extends throughout the coverage area and includes most of the top hospitals and clinics in each country.

Note that outpatient direct billing is not available — you’ll need to pay and make a claim for reimbursement for these services.

All of Tenzing’s international health plans operate on an annual basis, but some do allow you to make periodic payments rather than all at once.

For Expacare, the following fees will apply.

  • Quarterly: 4%
  • Semi-annually: 2%

Expacare Choices offers group health insurance plans that allow employers to provide peace of mind to valued employees.

There are two types of employer plans:

  • Full medical underwriting (FMU) requires covered individuals to provide medical history, which the insurer uses to assess risk and assign premiums.
  • Employer groups that are sufficiently large can qualify for a policy that disregards participants’ medical history (MHD). This is the only way to cover certain conditions.

Expacare allows employers to establish plans with as few as 1 employee for FMU, 5 for MHD.

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Mon – Fri: 8.30 am – 6 pm, Saturday – Sunday: CLOSED

Johannes Heikkila

Advisor
From Finland
Expat for 1 year
Speak Finnish, English & Spanish

Speciality:
- Health Insurance
- Savings Plans

Robert Cunningham

Advisor
From the UK
Expat for 13 years in Thailand & Vietnam
5 years' insurance & financial services

Speciality:
- Health Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Savings Plans

Romain Camillo

Senior Advisor
11 Years in Insurance & Financial Services
Expat in thailand for 7 years
Joined Tenzing in 2020
Speaks French & English


Speciality:
- Health Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Savings Plans"

Nancy Dao

Advisor
From Vietnam
International Business from UK
Lived in Singapore
Speaks Vietnamese & English

Speciality:
- Personal Health Insurance
- Group Health Insurance

Hunter Deems

Advisor
10 years' experience in insurance and investments
Joined Tenzing in early 2020

Speciality:
- Investments
- Savings Plan
- Health & Life Insurance
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Patrik Shore

Senior Advisor
From Sweden & New Zealand
7 years' insurance experience
Joined Tenzing in 2019
Crim Science
Speaks English and Swedish

Speciality:
- Savings Plans
- Health Insurance
- Life Insurance

Geoffrey Mann

Advisor
From the US
Employee benefits & insurance compliance background
Joined the Tenzing team in 2019
Law degree from the US

Speciality:
- Personal Health

Nhu Nguyen

Senior Advisor
From Vietnam
Joined Tenzing in 2017
Fluent in Vietnamese & English

Speciality:
- Group Health & Life Insurance
- Personal Health"
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Ian Comandao

Health Insurance Manager
From Philippines
MBA from Duke University
Expat for 20 years in US, China, Hong Kong & Vietnam Worked at Tenzing since 2018
Fluent in English, Tagalog, Mandarin

Speciality:
- Personal Health Insurance
- Group Health Insurance
- Business Insurance

Craig McAvinue

Director of Wealth Management
From the UK
25 years' expereince in investments & insurance
Expat in Thailand for 5 years
Chartered Accountant by trade
Holistic approach to consulting his clients

Speciality:
- Investments
- Savings Plans
- Health & Life Insurance

Quinn Miller

CEO & Managing Partner
From the US
Joined Tenzing in 2014
Expat for 10 years in Vietnam
Finance & Entrepreneurship Degrees

Speciality:
- Group Health Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Savings Plans"
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Quinn Miller

CEO & Managing Partner
From the US
Joined Tenzing in 2014
Expat for 10 years in Vietnam
Finance & Entrepreneurship Degrees

Speciality:
- Group Health Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Savings Plans"