{"id":842610,"date":"2025-04-21T21:12:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T02:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/21\/laya-healthcare-announce-6-6-price-hike\/"},"modified":"2025-04-21T21:12:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T02:12:11","slug":"laya-healthcare-announce-6-6-price-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/21\/laya-healthcare-announce-6-6-price-hike\/","title":{"rendered":"Laya Healthcare announce 6.6% price hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-content\" class>\n<p><strong>Insurance company Laya Healthcare has announced a price hike.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The company has announced a 6.6% rise in premiums, which will take effect from April 1st 2025.<\/p>\n<p>It follows similar moves from VHI and Irish Life in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>Total Health Cover\u2019s Dermot Goode said a Government levy on healthcare plans is contributing towards the increases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn&#8217;t matter what your renewal is &#8211; you are going to have to shop around,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.radiocms.net\/uploads\/1120962.jpg\" alt width=\"909\" height=\"481\"> Laya Healthcare<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you don&#8217;t, you could find yourself paying 15% to 20% extra and in some cases for less benefits, because a lot of benefits are being changed on plans as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo really, now it&#8217;s time for every consumer renewing in and around the first of April to start looking at their options.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is the second price hike for Laya Healthcare customers in the last year &#8211; with October 2024 seeing a 6.5% increase as well.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Medical stethoscope and minor injuries items. Image: Alamy<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> Newstalk <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newstalk.com\/news\/laya-healthcare-announce-6-6-price-hike-2138757\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insurance company Laya Healthcare has announced a price hike. The company has announced a 6.6% rise in premiums, which will take effect from April 1st 2025. It follows similar moves from VHI and Irish Life in recent months. Total Health Cover\u2019s Dermot Goode said a Government levy on healthcare plans is contributing towards the increases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":842611,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2549,82],"tags":[10412,5572],"class_list":{"0":"post-842610","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-announce","8":"category-healthcare","9":"tag-announce","10":"tag-healthcare"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/842611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}