Insurance trouble over for students

AMSTERDAM--The health insurance issue of Dutch Caribbean students in the Netherlands has been solved. Dutch insurance company Aevitae will correct the wrong classification within a few days.

Student support services SSC and S4 of Cura�ao and St. Maarten respectively received the good news on Thursday that their insurance broker NNAM had convinced Aevitae to place the some 3,000 students back in the student insurance category.

NNAM Director Bertel Postema said the students would be correctly registered in the course of next week in the digital databank health care providers check to see if a person has insurance.

This means that students no longer will be told they are not insured when they seek medical care from a doctor or hospital, or when they go to the dentist or pharmacy. They will not have to pay the bill in advance and have the amount refunded later.

The problems with health insurance for the students started in January when Aevitae changed the registration code after taking over the portfolio from the smaller VPZ insurance company. SSC, S4, and the Aruba House, which manages its own students, were not informed of the code change.

As a result of that code change, the digital health insurance databank indicated that the students were uninsured, while in fact they were insured. NNMA arranged a letter for the students so they could prove that they were insured.

S4 Director Marva Richardson clearly was relieved when she heard the good news. ?We are happy that the problem is being solved,? she said. S4 had received numerous telephone calls from upset students and concerned parents in the past weeks.

Postema said he was sure the problem was solved for good, also because it concerned a simple switch from one category to another. ?The students always had code B. Aevitae changed this into A. The students will be switched back to B,? he said.

Harrie Kisters of Aevitae?s Relation Management Department said the matter would be corrected by Monday or Tuesday. He explained that VPZ had placed the students in code A, the category for persons with a basic health insurance package.

Aevitae didn?t want to keep the students in code A, because according to the insurance company, a student policy is not the same as a basic health insurance policy. ?However, after consultation with the involved parties, we decided to reverse the change. This means that we are using code A incorrectly, but at least the problems for the students have been solved,? said Kisters.

Source: http://www.thedailyherald.com/islands/1-islands-news/15725-insurance-trouble-over-for-students.html

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