Combi Care or Managed Care?
Visana offers both: Combi Care and Managed Care. They are available together in 42 premium regions, and the cheaper of the two is not the same everywhere.
The cheaper one is not the same everywhere
Across 42 premium regions where both are offered, Combi Care is cheaper in 12 and Managed Care in 28. The average gap between them is CHF 272.14 a year.
The gap is widest in Zurich — Region 1: CHF 679.20 a year.
What you accept in each case
Combi Care is a "Telemedicine and others" model. Managed Care is a "Group practice (HMO)" model.
- Combi Care
Telemedicine and others
You call a medical service before any consultation, or follow another pathway set by the insurer.
- Managed Care
Group practice (HMO)
You go to a designated group practice, which coordinates your care.
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
- Glarus
- Grisons — Region 1
- Grisons — Region 2
- Grisons — Region 3
- Jura
- Lucerne — Region 1
- Lucerne — Region 2
- Lucerne — Region 3
- Neuchâtel
- Nidwalden
- Obwalden
- St. Gallen — Region 1
- St. Gallen — Region 2
- St. Gallen — Region 3
- Schaffhausen — Region 1
- Schaffhausen — Region 2
- Solothurn
- Schwyz
- Thurgau
- Ticino — Region 1
- Ticino — Region 2
- Uri
- Vaud — Region 1
- Vaud — Region 2
- Valais — Region 1
- Valais — Region 2
- Zug
- Zurich — Region 1
An alternative model commits you to a care pathway: check the conditions with the insurer before signing. This page gives a price, not advice.
Source: Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH), official premiums and territorial coverage areas.