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5th generation: annual limit on non-severe non-covered treatment

₩10,000,000 a yearKRW per year, non-severe non-covered rider

The number that shows what the 2026 reform actually did. Severe non-covered treatment — cancer, cerebrovascular and cardiac disease, rare and intractable conditions — is handled in its own rider, while everything else sits under this ceiling with a high excess and several common therapies excluded outright. Anyone choosing between an existing policy and a new one is really choosing between two different treatments of this category.

Applies to
Holders of 5th generation policies claiming non-covered treatment outside the severe categories
Review cadence
Checked once a year

What we have recorded

  1. 2026-05-06
    ₩10,000,000 a year

    Annual cover under the non-severe non-covered rider. Manual therapy, extracorporeal shockwave, prolotherapy and certain non-covered injections are among the treatments excluded from this rider. The severe non-covered rider, tied to the health insurance special-calculation categories, is separate and more generous.

    Financial Services Commission — 5th generation indemnity health insurance

One reading so far. This becomes a history the first time the figure moves while we are watching — which is the part that cannot be reconstructed later.