At health insurer DSW, customers will pay almost ten euros more per month from January than this year. That’s what the company has announced on Tuesday. Every year, DSW is the first to announce, a week after Prinsjesdag, how high the premium will be in the coming year. The monthly premium will increase by 9.75 euros, an increase of 7.6 percent. The amount that customers have to pay monthly for their health insurance will therefore be 137.50 euros from next year.
According to DSW, the reasons for the increase are mainly rising health care wages, but also ‘other’ increasing costs. The health insurer says that customers will continue to pay the same amount for the deductible; 375 euros. That is ten euros less than legally stipulated. With this, the company wants to “make it clear that the deductible is too high and misses its target”. By deploying financial reserves, DSW says it has prevented the premium increase from being 2 euros higher than it is now.
Other health insurers must announce their premium no later than 12 November. The premium of other insurers is generally comparable to that of DSW. Last year, DSW’s deductible also remained the same. The premium increased by 3.25 euros. The basic premium rose less rapidly at the time, among other things, because health insurers were partly reimbursed for the costs of the corona pandemic via the statutory catastrophe scheme.