{"id":24,"date":"2018-03-29T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smithinsgroup.com\/blog\/?p=24"},"modified":"2018-03-29T09:00:06","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T15:00:06","slug":"the-balance-of-premiums-and-deductibles-with-health-insurance-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smithinsgroup.com\/blog\/the-balance-of-premiums-and-deductibles-with-health-insurance-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"The Balance of Premiums and Deductibles with Health Insurance Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shopping for health insurance is a balancing act in trying to find that ideal value for you and your family.&nbsp;Do you have a firm grasp of exactly what your needs are when it comes to health insurance?&nbsp;Knowing the history of your medical bills is a high starting point.&nbsp;Work with us at The Smith Insurance Group, Inc. in Sandy, UT, and we can help you balance deductibles and your health insurance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Balancing the Deductible and Premium<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You need to balance the deductible and the premium when it comes to health insurance.&nbsp;The deductible is the amount of money you can expect to pay out of pocket in any given year.&nbsp;If you have a $1,000 deductible on your policy, you will pay all of your medical bills up to that $1,000 over the effective policy period.&nbsp;Once that is hit, it is then that coinsurance will likely kick in.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a deductible that is as low as $1,000, chances are you will have a higher premium or price you will pay for the health insurance policy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Value Point<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The idea is to find the value point, and that may be different from one person to the next.&nbsp;You may like the idea of paying more out of pocket in premiums, knowing you will have a lower deductible, and less to pay out later.&nbsp;Vice versa, you may like the idea of paying lower premiums, but more of the medical bills on your own.&nbsp;The value point will differ from one person to the next.<\/p>\n<p>The process of shopping for and buying health insurance should always have the value be top of mind.&nbsp;You need to be sure you are paying premiums and getting coverage that meets your exact needs.&nbsp;You may be buying coverage that is too extensive, for no reason at all.&nbsp;Work with us at The Smith Insurance Group, Inc. in Sandy, UT to find that ideal balance point to give you exactly what you need for health insurance coverage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shopping for health insurance is a balancing act in trying to find that ideal value for you and your family.&nbsp;Do you have a firm grasp of exactly what your needs are when it comes to health insurance?&nbsp;Knowing the history of your medical bills is a high starting point.&nbsp;Work with us at The Smith Insurance Group, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,6],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insurance","tag-sandy-ut","tag-the-smith-insurance-group-inc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smithinsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smithinsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smithinsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smithinsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smithinsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.smithinsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.smithinsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smithinsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smithinsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smithinsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}