What Is Supplemental Health Insurance?

Supplemental health insurance pays cash benefits directly to you when you experience a covered diagnosis or health event. With RenSecureHealth, Renaissance’s diagnosis-based supplemental health plan, you can use that coverage alongside a primary medical plan or entirely on its own.

The benefits you qualify for are separate from anything a medical plan pays to doctors or hospitals, so you decide whether the money goes toward deductibles, everyday bills, travel, or other expenses tied to your major health event.

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Why Supplemental Health Coverage Matters

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of Americans would need to borrow money to cover an unexpected $1,000 medical expense.¹

Life is unpredictable. Even with comprehensive health insurance, an unexpected illness or injury can bring significant financial stress. Deductibles, copays, coinsurance, lost income, childcare, transportation costs and other related expenses all add up quickly, often at the worst possible time.

That’s the gap RenSecureHealth is built to close.

How RenSecureHealth Works

The benefit is triggered by your diagnosis, not by how you were treated. No accident needs to have caused it, and you do not need to be hospitalized to qualify. A doctor’s diagnosis of a covered condition is enough.

What That Means Day to Day:

  • Active 24/7, at work and away from it

  • Claims can be easily submitted through the mobile app or online portal

  • The money is paid to you, not to a provider, typically within 72 business hours

  • Funds can be conveniently received via direct deposit or digital wallet options like PayPal or Venmo

How Supplemental Health Insurance Works With Your Other Benefits

RenSecureHealth can be used on its own or alongside other healthcare coverage. It pairs well with a major medical plan when that’s part of your benefits and may be available to stand alone as extra financial protection.

Because payouts arrive as cash, you choose how to use them.

Members often put them toward deductibles and copays, income gaps that disability coverage doesn’t fill, and related costs like transportation or lodging during treatment or recovery.

Plus, if you also have accident or disability insurance coverage through work, those benefits and RenSecureHealth can complement each other. RenSecureHealth pays cash directly to you on a covered diagnosis, and each of your other plans pays according to its own terms.

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What Does RenSecureHealth Cover, and How Much Does It Pay?

More than 13,000 conditions qualify, sorted into three benefit levels:

Benefit Level Conditions Covered Typical Situation Examples Payouts Up To
Moderate 6,000+ A short visit to the ER or urgent care Simple fractures, lacerations, kidney stones $800
Severe 5,600+ More intensive medical treatment Appendicitis, compound fractures, pulmonary embolism $3,000
Catastrophic 1,500+ Immediate medical intervention Lung cancer, heart attack, stroke $10,000

This is an example of benefits for illustration only. To confirm what your own plan covers and at which level, please refer to your policy for information.

When Should I Use My RenSecureHealth Benefit?

Use it when a doctor diagnoses you with a condition on your covered conditions list. That includes everyday events members don’t often think to file for, such as a laceration treated at urgent care, in addition to more serious diagnoses.

It also doesn’t matter where the injury or illness happened, at work or anywhere else. The benefit will still apply regardless of location.

When something unexpected sends you in for treatment, check the list before assuming the benefit doesn’t apply.

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How Do I File a Claim, and When Do I Get Paid?

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Before your first claim, register on the RenSecureHealth portal. You’ll need an account there before you can use the mobile app.

Log in to the RenSecureHealth portal via the app or your desktop.

Answer a few guided questions.

Upload basic documentation that includes information about your diagnosis, such as a bill or an Explanation of Benefits.

Choose how you want to be paid: direct deposit, Venmo or PayPal.

Already registered? File from your phone.

At Renaissance, benefits through RenSecureHealth are generally paid within 72 hours of an approved claim, depending on the payout method you choose. Because the money comes to you rather than to your doctor or hospital, there is nothing to reimburse and nothing to wait on from a provider.

Technology helps move claims quickly, and real people stay heavily involved when a claim calls for thoughtful judgment. Important decisions are never fully automated.

How to Get RenSecureHealth Through Your Employer

If your employer offers RenSecureHealth, you’ll typically enroll through your workplace benefits. If you aren’t sure whether it’s available to you, check your enrollment materials or ask your HR or benefits manager.

Before you choose a benefit level, consider adding up what an unexpected diagnosis would cost you directly, including your deductible and anything your other coverage would not pay. Your employer’s enrollment materials will show which levels are offered and what each one costs so you can make the best choice for your needs.

Annual enrollment is the window for that decision, and our guides on choosing coverage at work and using the benefits you already have cover both sides of it.

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Supplemental Health Insurance FAQs

It depends on your exposure. Deductibles, copays, coinsurance and lost income can add up quickly, and Bankrate found that 53% of Americans could not cover an unexpected $1,000 medical expense without borrowing.¹ A RenSecureHealth payout offsets part of that.

Yes. There are no pre-existing condition exclusions, and the plan is 100% guaranteed issue, so no one is medically underwritten.

No. Neither an accident nor a hospital stay is required. A qualifying diagnosis is enough on its own.

The plan spans more than 13,000 conditions in three benefit levels. Your own plan documents and benefit summary spell out which ones apply to you, or you can contact your HR team or broker to request more information directly.

Yes. Because the money is yours rather than a provider’s, you decide where it goes, including expenses that aren’t medical bills.

No. RenSecureHealth is employer-offered coverage that pays out on a qualifying diagnosis. Medicare Supplement is a separate Renaissance product for people enrolled in Medicare. If that’s the coverage you are looking for, see Medicare Supplement Plans.

RenSecureHealth is available through employers. If you would like the coverage and your employer does not currently offer it, let your HR or benefits manager know you’re interested.

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