OptiMed or PrimaFlex?
Mutuel offers both: OptiMed and PrimaFlex. They are available together in 38 premium regions, and the cheaper of the two is not the same everywhere.
The cheaper one is not the same everywhere
Across 38 premium regions where both are offered, OptiMed is cheaper in 35 and PrimaFlex in 3. The average gap between them is CHF 38.91 a year.
The gap is widest in Geneva: CHF 338.40 a year.
What you accept in each case
OptiMed is a "Group practice (HMO)" model. PrimaFlex is a "Telemedicine and others" model.
The comparison, region by region
- Aargau
- Appenzell Innerrhoden
- Appenzell Ausserrhoden
- Bern — Region 1
- Bern — Region 2
- Bern — Region 3
- Basel-Landschaft — Region 1
- Basel-Landschaft — Region 2
- Basel-Stadt
- Fribourg — Region 1
- Fribourg — Region 2
- Geneva
- Grisons — Region 1
- Grisons — Region 2
- Grisons — Region 3
- Jura
- Lucerne — Region 1
- Lucerne — Region 2
- Lucerne — Region 3
- Neuchâtel
- Nidwalden
- St. Gallen — Region 1
- St. Gallen — Region 2
- St. Gallen — Region 3
- Schaffhausen — Region 1
- Schaffhausen — Region 2
- Solothurn
- Schwyz
- Thurgau
- Uri
- Vaud — Region 1
- Vaud — Region 2
- Valais — Region 1
- Valais — Region 2
- Zug
- Zurich — Region 1
- Zurich — Region 2
- Zurich — Region 3
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Source: Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH), official premiums and territorial coverage areas.