Private Health Insurance in Gran Canaria: Member Experiences and Insights

Private health insurance in Gran Canaria is offered by a variety of companies and organizations. Many residents choose to purchase private health insurance, on top of public healthcare. It usually also avoids long wait times for appointments and procedures through the public healthcare system.

Private health insurance in Gran Canaria may cover a wide range of medical services. This includes hospital stays, outpatient visits, prescription medications and specialized treatments such as fertility treatments or plastic surgery. Private health insurance policies in Spain may also offer additional benefits, such as coverage for dental care and alternative therapies.

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Adeslas

Adeslas is the leading health insurance company in Spain, offering a wide range of private medical insurance plans that suit different needs and budgets. They have more than 43,000 medical professionals and 1,150 medical centres across Spain, as well as access to digital health services and travel assistance abroad. Adeslas also provides dental insurance with discounts and financing options for dental treatments.

I’m using Adeslas for health and dental care. Their app is amazing to book an appointment online wherever in Spain. You can opt for how many years but the minimum is a year. I find it more affordable than Sanitas, but with the same benefits, Sanitas charged me almost €900/ year but Adeslas charged me €586 / year (Complete Plan including dental care).
Eve

I’m with Adeslas and pretty happy with their service and they do have a English option.
Eric

Adeslas go is probably the cheapest one in the market. The downside of this health insurance is that you have to pay about €10 each time you visit the doctor.
Noel

Sanitas

Sanitas is a health insurance company that offers different plans and services in Spain and Switzerland. They provide basic insurance that covers essential medical care, as well as supplementary insurance that covers additional costs and benefits. This can include dental treatment, glasses, alternative medicine and preventive care. Sanitas also offers supplementary hospital insurance that allows customers to choose the hospital ward, the doctor and the hospital they prefer, both in Switzerland and abroad.

I chose Sanitas for private health insurance. Mostly because it is popular and easy to find healthcare providers and hospitals that work with it.
Ciarán

I pay €554 per year (age 54 with no previous conditions). This price comes with a “copago” (a few euros which I have to pay each time, on an increasing scale depending on the number of times I use it in the year). They do have higher prices for lower or zero copago, but I wanted the lowest price with the highest copago (which is still low anyway) because I am in very good health.

HPS is definitely covered, I have been there several times! I’m not sure about Vithas as it’s never come up in my searches (on the Sanitas site/app).

I have always done everything in Spanish but the Sanitas site offers the choice of 3 languages: Spanish, Catalan and English, so I guess this means that they offer some service in English.
David

I pay approximately €45 a month with Sanitas and got a lot of specialists checks done already all covered. It also includes basic dental care and optician.
Kim

I use Sanitas and it includes dental care. I pay approximately €800 for one year, but I’m sure there are cheaper options out there.
Nikki

I’ve had Sanitas for almost a year now, they seem good so far.
Ian

DKV

If you are looking for private health insurance in Spain, you might want to consider DKV as your provider. It is one of the largest and fastest growing medical insurance companies in Spain, offering a wide range of plans and coverages for individuals, families, freelancers and companies. DKV has more than 51,000 medical professionals and 1,000 medical centres available throughout the country, as well as online consultations and support. DKV also provides health insurance certificates for visa and residency applications in Spain, with a fast and easy online sign up process.

DKV have been great so far. I am very happy with them.
Vanes

We used DKV before and it worked quite well. Plus they had a global coverage for up to 6 month, i.e. we could go somewhere for a summer and still use it there. At the same time we do not have anything to compare with. I remember that all of DKV apps were somewhat useless and we looked up doctors using paper book they gave us.
Andrey

I use Alan – and they use DKV.
Caroline

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AXA is good.
Irene

DKV, it’s pretty easy to understand the contracts. Also Mapfre and Allianz are quite big here.
Flavio

I would say that Mapfre or Sanitas are the best.
Lorena

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