Essential Extras
Covering a comprehensive range range of services. Must be packaged with our Hospital Cover options.
Essential Extras provides benefits for a comprehensive range of services with lower benefits and annual limits to keep your policy cost down.
Best suited for families, couples and singles.
Features:
- Cover for an extensive range of dental, optical and therapy services
- Cover for orthodontics
- Generous per person limits
- Cover for orthodontics
- Lower limits to make the premium more affordable
- Membership loyalty rewarded with increasing limits
- Must be packaged with one of our hospital cover options
How benefits work
Overall limits apply to dental, orthodontics, optical, therapies and other services. Sub-limits apply to certain services. Rewarding limits We also increase your overall benefit limits for dental (excluding orthodontics) and therapies by $50 after the first year of membership and then for each year after for the first five years of cover. We honour this loyalty limit for as long as you hold the product. More information is available here.
What you're covered for
General and major dental
$900 per personCrowns and bridges
$550Full veneered crown | $560 |
Sub-limit increases to $1,000 per year after 2 years of membership. Item benefits however remain the same.
Dentures
$500Prosthodontic services like plates and dentures.
Full lower denture | $350 |
Diagnostic dental
$400Includes services like examinations, consultations and x-rays.
Periodic oral exam | $39 |
X-rays | $24 |
Extractions
$400Simple extractions
Teeth removal services. Simple extractions include those completed in a standard dental appointment.
Simple tooth extraction | $74 |
Surgical extractions
Surgical extractions include wisdom teeth extraction, removal of impacted teeth. Benefits paid on dental item numbers only unless hospital cover is held and all waits have been served for any in-patient services.
Surgical tooth extractions | $126 |
A $400 combined sub-limit applies to surgical and simple extractions.
Fillings
$500Restorative treatments including composite and amalgam fillings.
One surface composite filling | $90 |
General services
$300Includes services such as occlusal splints.
Occlusal splits | $210 |
Preventive dental
$500Includes cleaning and scaling, fluoride treatment and mouth guards.
Scale and clean | $63 |
Fluoride treatment | $16 |
Mouth guard | $105 |
Root canal treatment
$350Endodontic services such as root canals and root fillings.
Root canal obturation | $119 |
Specialised gum treatments
$300Periodontics, such as specialised gum treatments
Up to sub-limit (individual item benefits apply) | $300 |
Braces and orthodontics
$1,500 lifetime limit per personBraces and orthodontic services
Lifetime limit $1,500Braces and orthodontic services.
Up to limit | $500 |
Benefits are paid up to eligible benefit limit based on years of membership on Essential Extras Cover.
Benefit limits after initial waiting period (if applicable) start at $500 and increase to $1,000 after completion of two years' membership on Essential Extras Cover, and to $1500 after three years' membership on Essential Extras Cover, up to a lifetime limit of $1500 . Lifetime limit will take into consideration all previous claims for orthodontic treatment, even under a previous funds’ cover.
Optical
$215 per personGlasses and contact lenses
$215Glasses including frames, single vision lenses and progressive lenses, contact lenses, prescription sunglasses etc.
Optical items or services |
Up to $215
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Through our Premier Provider Network, you can take advantage of discounts at preferred providers across Australia.
Therapies
$900 per personAcupuncture
Initial and subsequent consultation | $25 |
Benefits are payable for services rendered by Australian Regional Health Group approved providers registered with Territory Health Fund.
Audiology
Consultation | $35 |
Report | $42 |
Chinese Medicine
Initial consultation | $25 |
Subsequent consultation | $25 |
Chiropractic
$500 (combined)^Initial chiropractic consultation | $39 |
Subsequent chiropractic consultation | $25 |
X-rays (not for reading of X-rays) | $50 |
A $500 combined limit applies to chiropractic, remedial massage, Bowen therapy, myotherapy and osteopathic services for Essential Extras.
Dietitian
Initial consultation | $53 |
Subsequent consultation | $28 |
Exercise physiology
$500 (combined)*Initial consultation | $35 |
Subsequent consultation | $25 |
Monthly program fee | $25 |
Group therapy | $7 |
* A $500 combined limit applies to physiotherapy and exercise physiology services under Essemtial Extras cover.
Foot orthoses and orthopaedic shoes
$105Up to sub-limit for orthoses and custom-made footwear. |
Occupational therapy
Initial consultation | $56 |
Subsequent consultation | $28 |
Orthoptic therapy
Programmed therapy for eye exercises for people with eye-focusing problems.
Initial and subsequent consultation | $42 |
Osteopathy
$500 (combined)^Initial consultation | $39 |
Subsequent consultation | $28 |
^ A $500 combined limit applies to chiropractic, remedial massage, Bowen therapy, myotherapy and osteopathic services for Essential Extras.
Physiotherapy
$500 (combined)*Inital consultation | $39 |
Subsequent consultation | $33 |
Group therapy | $7 |
* Combined physiotherapy and exercise physiology sub-limit of $500 applies.
Podiatry
$400Initial and subsequent consultation | $28 |
Approved appliances (orthotics) | Up to sub-limit |
Minor procedures | Up to sub-limit |
Psychology
Initial and subsequent consultation | $56 |
Report | $56 |
Group therapy | $56 |
Remedial massage or myotherapy
$500 (combined)^Consultation | $30 |
Benefits are payable for services rendered by Australian Regional Health Group Limited approved providers registered with Territory Health Fund.
^ A $500 combined limit applies to chiropractic, remedial massage, myotherapy and osteopathic services for Essential Extras.
Speech therapy
Initial consultation | $56 |
Subsequent consultation | $28 |
Other services
Childbirth education
$42Education session | $42 |
Healthy living
$125As well as helping you to get well, we want to help you stay well. Our Healthy Living benefit helps you living a healthy lifestyle through:
- Participation in a choice of approved weight management programs^^
- Quit smoking programs
- Approved health management programs* including gym memberships, personal training programs, Aquatic exercise/rehabilitation* including pool entry and exercise classes (excludes swim classes/lessons)
- Have your skin checked for skin cancers through a mole mapping service^
- Consultation fees for diabetes education
- Consultation fees for metabolic dietitians and nutritionists when providing assistance with weight management
- Bowel screening tests and bone density tests
- Prostate-Specific Antigen test (one per year) – we cover a second yearly text not covered by Medicare
- Supermarket tours conducted by a dietitian or other allied health professional qualified to provide nutrition advice.
*To comply with private health insurance legislation, you must have been referred by your health care professional to participate in a health management program to address or improve a specific medical condition. A Health Management Program Benefit Approval Form must accompany a claim for these benefits.
^^Before enrolling in a weight management program please contact the Fund to clarify the eligibility to benefits.
^ No benefit is payable where Medicare have paid a benefit towards this service.
Pharmaceutical
$300The Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) is a national pharmaceutical scheme funded by the Federal Government where patients contribute to the cost of prescribed drugs.
Territory Health doesn't cover pharmaceutical prescriptions covered by the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme or for contraceptives and items normally available without prescriptions. Prescriptions not covered by the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS), excluding contraceptives and items normally available without prescription and drugs not approved for sale in Australia. A co-payment applies to each prescription item equal to the current PBS.
We’ll pay benefits as outlined in the Extras table up to the claim limit for this category, with consideration to the maximum individual script benefit limit. The benefit amount per script is calculated by deducting the PBS general patient contribution amount from the purchase price (up to script benefit limit). This is conditional on the pharmaceutical prescription being listed in the MIMs Schedule as S4 or S8 and being dispensed in quantities in accordance with this schedule. We also pay for compound pharmacy scripts, as long as one of the ingredients meet this criteria.
A doctor's letter may be required for some pharmacy items.
The PBS contribution amount is reviewed annually by the Government and changes every year on 1 January. As at 1 January 2024, the PBS contribution is set at $31.60.
Pharmaceuticals | Up to $45 |
School accidents
$450100% of cost per dependent child up to sub-limit |