HIF Member Service Commitment

Our Member Service Commitment ensures we:

1. Show we care, because we do.

Great communication is the key to any relationship. For us, that means listening to you, intently and providing help and assistance for any query you may have. 

To do that, we have to ensure we have enough people at our end (and we mean real people) right here in Australia, ready and eager to help. But we also need to make it easy for you to get in touch – on the phone, in writing, via our website, email, Facebook, Instagram or Linkedin. That’s why we promise to:

• Provide you with secure 24/7 online access to your policy and claims details
• Provide helpful answers to the most common questions asked by you in our online knowledge base
• Answer your telephone calls during business hours Monday – Friday (WST) in a timely and friendly manner
• Reply to your emails, online or written enquiries within five (5) business days
• Action any policy changes you request within ten (10) working days
• Continually improve our electronic claiming options and where you can't claim "on the spot" make it easier to send your Extras claim to us for processing within three (3) working days
• Give you the opportunity to rate our service and to feedback any suggestions to improve our products and services.

2. Give you more choice.

Having greater choices in health insurance and health care is a good thing. We believe we’re here to help you make informed decisions about your choices. That’s why we promise to regularly review our products, services, benefits and prices to ensure you can choose:

• From a generous range of relevant and value-for-money HIF health covers
• How and when you pay your HIF health insurance premiums
• Freedom to make more choices, whether it's a choice of hospital, doctor or your specialist. 

3. Respect your privacy and confidentiality, always.

Your privacy is important to us, so rest assured that we take important measures to protect your personal information: 

• Maintain confidentiality by ensuring access to your personal information is properly controlled and supervised
• Record your personal information accurately and securely
• Only share your personal details with others on the policy if the primary Member has told us that's OK
• Only disclose your personal information to a third party who is entitled under a law
• Our industry and our health fund is heavily regulated by industry regulators and the Federal Government to ensure we continue to provide the most ethical and responsible service for all our members. 

4. Address your concerns, promptly and fairly.

If you have a problem with our service or if there’s something we could be doing better, we want to hear about it. And so we promise to:

• Resolve any complaint you have at the first point of contact, unless it is in your interests to refer it to another person
• Treat you with respect and deal with your concerns promptly
• If required, escalate your complaint, acknowledge and advise you of progress within two (2) business days and deal with it as swiftly as possible
• Invite you to escalate any complaint you have that couldn’t be dealt with to your satisfaction through HIF's formal internal dispute resolution process and keep you informed on its progress
• Openly share our complaints procedure with you, including external resolution options, like involving the Commonwealth Ombudsman, Privacy Commissioner or our Specialist Medical Advisors
• Deal with any complaint you have fairly and in an equitable manner, with your best interests, and those of all our customers, always in mind.