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Three out of five health insurance members are believed to be on the wrong plan.

Earlier this month, VHI became the first health insurer to implement a second swathe of rebates in recognition of the lower number of claims during the lockdown.

Back in March, when the Private Hospitals Association agreed to make private hospitals available to public health services in order to combat the Covid pandemic, access to the private health system was more or less closed off, and this in turn saw health claims drop off a cliff. Hence the first rebate.