Healthy Paws | Pet Insurance Review

BEWARE OF HEALTHY PAWS! After 9 years of loyalty and paying their ever escalating premiums, they decided with a 60 days notice stating 8/1/25 ALL dogs 7 years plus received a 40% reduction in coverage, my deductible went from $100 to $1,000. Basically it is now health catastrophe insurance. They do not cover wellness Had I had known this I would’ve started my puppy with another insurance company that’s more solid like Embrace. I realize these newer companies start you off on a low premium with great deductibles and coverage and then all of a sudden either drop you totally or drastically reduce the benefits, upping the premiums and upping the deductible by 1000%. Now I can’t switch him because he has pre-existing conditions so I’m stuck with a high premium $1000 deductible and a 50% coverage. Go on Reddit, FB etc. and you see people’s reviews. This new policy just happened August 2025. BEWARE OF HEALTHY PAWS

It's disgusting to see all the responses from Healthy Paws in this thread, acting like they care and that their insane and constant rate increases are reasonable and not based on age. Like many others, they told me this lie years ago when I asked about their rate increases. At the time it wouldn't have been too late for me to find a decent pet insurance company. Last year when my dog turned 10 they went up to $250/month. This year they want $364. They've paid out a total of $250 for medical treatment of my dog when she was a puppy. Don't buy insurance from this company. I really wish I'd just put the over $20,000 they've charged for 1 dog aside, just in case.

We insured our dog with Healthy Paws the day we brought him home in 2015. We’ve stayed loyal for ten years, paying every single month, because we wanted peace of mind if he ever got sick. When we enrolled, our premium was $33/month. It’s been raised year after year — and we accepted that, because pets get older. But today, after a decade of loyalty and barely $1,000 reimbursed total, our premium is being raised to $352/month. That’s more than 10x what we started at. 1000% increase. Here’s the part that feels truly cruel: this notice arrived immediately after we submitted a claim for testing on a newly diagnosed heart condition. For years, while our dog was healthy, we paid faithfully with almost no return. The moment he needs care? The policy becomes unaffordable. This is not insurance — it’s a bait-and-switch. They happily take your money while your pet is young, and once your dog ages or develops an issue, they jack up your rate so high that you’re forced to drop coverage. It’s predatory and it preys on families who love their animals. We’ve been loyal customers for 10 years. To be treated this way, at the exact moment our dog actually needs help, is shameful. If you’re considering this company, please think twice. Don’t make the mistake we did.

I have been a HealthyPaws customer since 2014. I currently have 3 dogs on my plan. When I signed up the policy stated that premium increases were ONLY applied in line with rising costs due to vet care in my particular area. There were supposedly NO increases in premium based on claims made or pet age. My vet has increased their prices across the board roughly 40% over the course of the last 11 years, and yet my premiums have gone up 1,000%. They still claim the increases are due to costs of vet care increasing in my area, which anyone with a basic education can see is a blatant lie. The thing is that they know that pet insurance companies are allowed to deny claims for pre-existing conditions, so when your dog is old and has a condition or two, they jack up your rates because if you leave, you won’t get covered anywhere else. This is absolutely disgusting and absolutely fraudulent. The promise to only increase cost based on vet premiums rising in my area was ON MY CONTRACT when I first signed up. They disable the ability to comment on their social media posts because the posts are 90% people like me who have been seriously wronged by them. Don’t get sucked in. It will be fine for a few years. They are pretty good with handling claims quickly so it’s easy to think this company is great at first. It’s as if they wait until they know your dog has conditions and then they start piling on the increases with no verifiable proof that vet costs have increased. Just run. I hope they get a big fat class action suit and are found guilty of fraud.

Healthy Paws is on a downward spiral. I don’t know what has happened to them. (1) It seems that Healthy Paws may have outsourced their Call Center to a foreign country; one call to Healthy Paws, and I have an intense headache, my interaction with the Healthy Paws, alleged, Customer Service representative was horrifying, with no evidence of “customer service." (2) The person I spoke with at the Healthy Paws Call Center, or attempted to speak with, had so much background noise, that I could hardly hear him, never mind understand him. It sounded like he was on a runway at Kennedy Airport.