What is covered under Hospital appliances?
If you are going into hospital to have surgery to implant or apply prosthesis, we will pay a benefit towards this if you have the appropriate level of cover for the treatment and the product is listed on the Prostheses list.
There are over 10,000 surgically implanted prostheses and other medical devices, these include:
- hip, knee and other joint replacement devices
- cardiac implantable electronic devices such as pacemakers and defibrillators
- cardiac stents
- vascular stents and grafts
- heart valves
What is not covered on the Prostheses list?
Products not eligible to be listed on the Prostheses List include:
- external prostheses, like prosthetic limbs or external breast prostheses
- surgically implanted devices, not purposely designed for replacing an anatomical body part, or combat a pathological or modulate a physiological process, such as some cosmetic implants
- devices intended to be used for diagnostic purposes.
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