Healthy Paws | Pet Insurance Review

After five years of paying monthly, rising rates, I mdee one claim and they stalled, made excuses, asked for more and more and more documents. They search for a reason not to pay and wait you out, hoping you quit making payments and then you are no longer a customer. Only the "happy" customer (suckers) are left. Avoid this company.

After paying in for eight years with zero reimbursements, my policy jumped from $50/moth to over $150.

Terrible Company - they try to get rid of older pets by tripling the rates when the animal ages - this is after 7!years with them and no claims

We had Healthy Paws since we adopted our dog almost 10 years ago. However, I got a recent notice via email that our premium would be increasing from $82 to over $400 dollars. All the documentation and notices in the online portal didn't adequately explain why, and none of the documents except the original email even mentioned the new amount, which was way at the bottom in basically the tiniest text possible. Extremely hard to cancel via email. I received three emails that acknowledged that my request had been received, but no real reply until I followed up with stronger wording, after which I was given the runaround again. Eventually I was able to get a (very nice) representative on the phone and canceled that way, but wow. I really think Healthy Paws has gone steeply downhill in the last couple of years and shifted to misleading practices that gave this longtime customer a horrible impression of them in the end.

I learned that once you ever have a claim and you lower your reimbursement % and raise your deductible amount you can't change it back. AND, this next thing I'm going to describe is the reason I canceled one of my dog's policy. I read an EOB closely and discovered the reimbursement % is taken off DURING the deductible period. Yes. If you have a $1000 deductible with a 50% reimbursement and file a $1000 claim, it goes like this: $1000 - 50%=$500.00 towards deductible, not $1000. If you thought the DEDUCTIBLE was fulfilled, YOU'RE WRONG. In this scenario, you will have to file $1500 in claims to fulfill a $1000 deductible. If you have a $250 deductible with a 80% reimbursement and file a $250 claim, it looks like this: $250 - 20% =$200.00 towards deductible. That's right! Your reimbursement % is calculated DURING your deductible period. BUYER BEWARE!