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Why Private Health Services?

We see that many people feel lost in a complex health-care system when it comes to important questions relating to health care and health. Many treatments are being offered, quality information is fragmented and it isn’t always clear which health-care providers or solutions are best suited to their personal situation. At the same time, the ageing population and staff shortages are putting increasing pressure on access to health care.

Our team

Melvin Besselink

Business Manager

Willem Veerman

Family Physician · Medical

Ingrid van Westing

Medical Product

Dries Laurs

Quality of Care

David Fokker

Digital

Ellen Ooms

Market Development

Nicolet Annema

Marketing

Donna van de Bilt

Services

Our Private Health Advisors

Albert Elsendoorn

Private Health Advisor

Ashley Porton

Private Health Advisor

Rosanne Diepeveen

Private Health Advisor

Laura Vernooij - Manni

Private Health Advisor

Amy Torn Broers

Support

Donna van de Bilt

Operations Manager

Our partners

In order to provide its services, Private Health Services collaborates with a number of carefully selected partners. This allows us to help you out with more than just insights. We do not provide medical advice ourselves, but we can ensure a doctor is brought in to help, for example if you’re unsure about a diagnosis or treatment. In addition, we work together with specialist diagnostics centres, can help with informal care through partners and will engage an emergency centre for urgent health care abroad. We choose our partners based on quality: the thoroughness of their work, how they are reviewed and how closely medical professionals are involved. We regularly evaluate their services. The fact that we collaborate with them structurally sometimes allows us to agree more favourable terms for you. We never have these agreements with hospitals or doctors treating you: in those cases we always consider what suits you best independently. 

An initiative from ONVZ

Private Health Services is an initiative from ONVZ, your partner in health care and health. As a non-profit association, ONVZ has been committed to providing access to high-quality health care, room for your own health-care choices and personal attention since 1933. Over 90 years of knowledge and experience enable us to help you confidently make the most suitable choices for your health care and health. With Private Health Services we are combining our knowledge of the health-care system with personal service and a strong network of health-care and health experts, making high-quality health care more accessible, more personal and more transparent. And we provide clarity, peace of mind and certainty in a health-care system that is becoming increasingly complex. 

Frequently asked questions

Does Private Health Services operate independently of health-care providers and health insurers?

Yes. Private Health Services operates as an independent service with its own team. Your Private Health Advisor will use your situation and needs to check the various options available for you and is not bound by your policy or the agreements made between health insurers and health-care providers. We will consider all health-care providers that fit your needs without prioritising health care contracted under your health-care plan. We do not receive any compensation from providers for suggesting their health care: your subscription is our only source of income. Your Advisor will, however, show you beforehand which health-care costs are covered by your health-care plan and which may be at your own expense. This tells you everything you need to know in advance, so you won’t get any surprises. 

How does Private Health Services relate to ONVZ?

Private Health Services is an initiative from ONVZ and builds on the knowledge, expertise and network ONVZ has built up as a health-care expert over more than 90 years. However, Private Health Services operates as an independent service provider. The support you get from your Private Health Advisor is separate from health-care plans, health-care procurement and the agreements made between ONVZ or other health insurers and health-care providers. Your Private Health Advisor uses your situation to check the various options available to you and supports you with independent insights, so you can confidently make suitable choices. Whatever you discuss with your Private Health Advisor is not shared with ONVZ without your permission. 

Does Private Health Services only look at health care reimbursed by my health-care plan?

No. Your Private Health Advisor looks at all the options that suit your needs, even if your health-care plan doesn’t reimburse them or only reimburses part of them, including treatments abroad. Your Advisor will show you beforehand which costs are reimbursed by your health-care plan and which are at your own expense. This means the choice is yours, without any surprises.

What data does Private Health Services use when exploring the most suitable options for me?

To identify suitable health-care providers for every customer, Private Health Advisors use their own validated quality-related health-care data. We combine publicly available data with carefully compiled, supplementary information to map out the quality of health-care providers. We build profiles for health-care providers based on four different perspectives:

  • Analysis of public data 
    We continuously monitor data available from public sources, like results indicators, complication figures, the number of operations performed and the composition of the medical team.
  • Recommendations from health-care professionals 
    We gather recommendations from leading health-care professionals. To which health-care providers would they themselves refer patients? And especially: why?
  • Information from working visits 
    We visit health-care providers on site if they stand out in a positive way based on data and recommendations. These working visits allow us to get a clear picture of how they operate in practice. We talk to those involved and learn about their working methods, choices, the reasons for those and their unique characteristics.
  • Experiences from patients
    We analyse data from review sites, but we mainly also look at experiences and treatment results from our own customers. 

By now we have built up over 800 profiles for specialist practices that are part of health-care providers, spread out over more than 40 fields of treatment, from knees and hips to breast and prostate cancer. This number keeps growing: the profiles are continuously supplemented, updated and further refined. All of this means that we have a unique and current picture of health-care providers that is unavailable elsewhere. We can use it to provide every customer with a carefully considered list of options that suit their personal situation, health-care needs and preferences.

How can I be sure that the data used by Private Health Services is reliable? Who validates this?

As part of Private Health Services, a special team is responsible for mapping out the quality of health-care providers. The quality-related health-care data is periodically updated, supplemented and validated using different methods. We also collaborate with specialist doctors for each field of treatment.