Vitality removes medical underwriting for Talking Therapies treatments

Part of health insurance updates

Hemma Visavadia
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Vitality has unveiled a range of updates to its health insurance offering, including the removal of medical underwriting for access Talking Therapies treatment.

The changes aim to expand access to counselling and CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) for members with Personal Healthcare, Business Healthcare and Corporate Healthcare plans, Vitality stated. The provider will also be removing the annual limit on in-patient and day-patient cover for its Mental Health Cover option, with these members now able to access up to 28 days of in-patient and day-patient treatment at a time. Meanwhile, all Core Cover members will now be eligible to receive six sessions of physiotherapy without the need for separate out-patient cover. Vitality is also laun...

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