Bow Wow Meow crowned Best Value in Finder’s Pet Insurance Awards
There’s no doubt Aussies love their furry friends. But our beloved pets need more than love; food, shelter, exercise, and regular vet checkups.
If your pets are in great shape, an annual visit might be enough. Unfortunately, many animals are prone to injuries or illnesses. Most vets are great people, but vet care doesn’t come cheap.
That’s why for this year’s Pet Insurance Awards, Finder’s team of insurance experts analysed over 160 features and 140 quotes to help Aussies find the best pet insurance cover to meet their pets’ needs.
Bow Wow Meow’s Ultimate Care plan* took home gold for the ‘Value’ category of this year’s Awards. Their team is full of pet people committed to helping Aussie pet owners, but the real test is whether they can offer a policy that ticks the boxes. It seems that this year, they did.
Finder found that Bow Wow Meow’s Ultimate Care plan provides a great level of cover at a very competitive price. Out of the quotes analysed for the Pet Insurance Awards, Bow Wow Meow’s Ultimate Care policy came out as one of the most affordable in terms of annual cost. More precisely, it was around $900 cheaper than the average cost of all the policies they looked at**.
Outstanding Value
Bow Wow Meow’s Ultimate Care plan provides up to $20,000 a year annual benefit limit. Finder’s team commented that this is a higher benefit limit than some other providers in the market, especially for their price range.
The Ultimate Care plan has an 80% benefit percentage, meaning that up to 80% of eligible vet bills will be reimbursed, with no excesses. Among the features included in the policy are dental illness cover of up to $1,000 per year, emergency boarding, hip joint surgery, and cruciate ligament conditions (refer to the PDS for more details).
Aussies can rest assured that their pets can receive the ultimate care from Bow Wow Meow for life: The policy offers a life-long cover which can take care of your beloved pets into their old age4.
Bow Wow Meow also offers new policy holders their first two months free* if they use promo code 2MFREE.
Customer Experience
Long waiting times are rare with Bow Wow Meow: most claims are processed within 5-10 days, and policy holders can claim using GapOnly®.
Bow Wow Meow is also a founding GapOnly® partner. This lets you claim on the spot, while you’re still at the vet. That’s so much better than having to pay the entire vet bill upfront. It helps you think less about the health of your wallet, and more about the health of your pets.
A big congratulations to Bow Wow for offering Aussies such a great value product.
* Please note that our Ultimate Care Plan has been replaced by our new Nose-to-Tail Cover, which offers up to S30,000 annual benefit limit, up to 90% of eligible vet bills back, and your choice of annual excess options for more control over your premium and out-of-pocket expenses.
**More information about the Finder Awards methodology can be found here
About the author
Tim Bennett is Finder’s lead publisher for insurance. For over 10 years he’s reported on news, politics, finance and other topics as a journalist and radio presenter. Tim’s roles have included radio news reader and breakfast at the ABC, news producer for SBS and producer for Fairfax Media. Tim has been quoted as a health insurance expert on Television programs including 7 News, Sunrise, SBS news, as well as on radio stations including 3AW, 5AA and ABC Local. He’s also been quoted in national news mastheads including the Australian, as well as The Daily Telegraph, The Courier Mail and more. Tim was also the co-host of Finder’s Block Climbing podcast alongside tech journalist Tegan Jones.
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