I’m communicating with a guy who is moving to Taiwan at the end of the year. He says he will have “international health insurance” and wants to know if it will be accepted in clinics here.
What I’m also wondering is the cost effectiveness of it. Depending on his premiums, might it be cheaper for him to get insurance here if eligible? He’ll be working at the Southern Taiwan Science Park, just NE of Tainan.
[quote=“kjmillig”]I’m communicating with a guy who is moving to Taiwan at the end of the year. He says he will have “international health insurance” and wants to know if it will be accepted in clinics here.
What I’m also wondering is the cost effectiveness of it. Depending on his premiums, might it be cheaper for him to get insurance here if eligible? He’ll be working at the Southern Taiwan Science Park, just NE of Tainan.[/quote]
Hi kjmillig,
I hope you don’t mind, but I edited your thread title slightly to make it clearer, at least to me.
I did a quick search, and I found this thread, but it doesn’t quite answer whether the international insurance is accepted in Taiwan.
If your friend is going to be here for a while, I think it’d be better for him to get the NHI in Taiwan, regardless of whether he has the international insurance or not. He could use the international insurance on top of NHI if he submits his receipts to the international insurance company, but it may not be worth it for small dollar amounts like you’d have at a normal clinic. For major hospital stays, it would definitely be worth submitting, though.
Hopefully others can chime in with their advice.