Combi Care or Med Direct?
Visana offers both: Combi Care and Med Direct. 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 13 and Med Direct in 27. The average gap between them is CHF 174.51 a year.
The gap is widest in Bern — Region 1: CHF 494.40 a year.
What you accept in each case
Combi Care is a "Telemedicine and others" model. Med Direct is a "Family doctor" model.
- Combi Care
Telemedicine and others
You call a medical service before any consultation, or follow another pathway set by the insurer.
- Med Direct
Family doctor
You pick a family doctor and always go to them first.
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.