{"id":237745,"date":"2026-01-10T11:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T11:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/237745\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T11:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T11:32:10","slug":"how-to-get-the-most-value-from-your-health-insurance-policy-as-prices-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/237745\/","title":{"rendered":"How to get the most value from your health insurance policy as prices increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Premium costs are soaring so now is a good time to assess your current plan or change insurer\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MRI scans can be accessed at urgent care clinics. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ad9eb183-c65b-4328-8535-a9f8fcbfabbf.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">MRI scans can be accessed at urgent care clinics. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">With almost one million people set to renew their health insurance between now and March, most will react in dismay to the inevitable higher premiums being sought.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Patrick Brennan, of NFP Ireland, a professional services firm specialising in insurance, said the cost of providing health cover has risen by up to 18pc in the past year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Premium costs are soaring so now is a good time to assess your current plan or change insurer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,8655,61,60,29207,81569,17377,81568],"class_list":["post-237745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-health-insurance","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-life","tag-laya-healthcare","tag-sinead-ryan","tag-vhi-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}