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Healthy Assurance's mission is simple: To provide pet owners with unbiased, reliable, helpful, and timely information on pet insurance from a veterinarian’s perspective. And what better veterinarian to write this blog than Dr. Kenney, a small animal practioner and author of Your Guide to Understanding Pet Health Insurance.
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Per-Incident Maximum: Don’t Overlook This Important Factor When Purchasing Pet Insurance

One of the most significant factors that can increase your out-of-pocket expense when filing a pet insurance claim is having a policy with a "per-incident" maximum. What's that, you may ask? Per-incident generally means the maximum the insurance company will pay out each time a new problem... READ MORE

Jun 23, 2011 / (7) comments

Is Coverage For Wellness Care Worth It?

Sometimes called routine care, wellness care coverage includes things like wellness examinations, vaccinations, heartworm testing, heartworm preventative, flea and tick prevention products, teeth cleaning, wellness lab testing, and spaying or neutering. These expenses are expected and can be planned... READ MORE

Jun 16, 2011 / (1) comments

No Shortcuts To Buying Pet Insurance

Sometimes I wonder how people decide which pet insurance policy to buy? Why did they choose this company or that particular policy? How much research did they do before making up their mind?   READ MORE

Jun 09, 2011 / (5) comments

Why Coverage For Chronic Illnesses is Also a Big Deal

Chronic conditions are diseases that cannot be cured, but may be treated and controlled so that your pet may live several more years with minimal symptoms and a good quality of life. It is important to select a policy with adequate coverage for chronic conditions when purchasing pet insurance.   READ MORE

Jun 02, 2011 / (3) comments

Why Insurance Coverage for Hereditary Conditions Is a Big Deal

Some pet owners who have investigated pet insurance have complained about what they felt were numerous exclusions or loopholes that would allow a pet insurance company to easily deny claims. This has led them to conclude that pet insurance isn’t worth it. One of the exclusions they frequently mention... READ MORE

May 26, 2011 / (12) comments

What to do About Pre-Existing Conditions

A common reason that pet insurance claims are denied is because of a pre-existing condition. This is a problem or disease that your pet may have shown symptoms of or been diagnosed with before you purchased the policy, or that came to be during the waiting period before the policy became effective and... READ MORE

May 19, 2011 / (6) comments

Which Is Best - Pet Insurance or Savings Account?

One bit of advice that I see over and over on the Internet is to open a savings account to help pay for your pet’s healthcare needs, rather than buying pet insurance. The recommendation is to put the money that you would be "wasting" on pet insurance premiums into the savings account,... READ MORE

May 12, 2011 / (11) comments

Should You Buy Pet Insurance?

If you are the typical person in America today, you probably have several different types of insurance. If you own a home, you likely have homeowners insurance. If you own a car, you likely have auto insurance. You may also have life insurance, disability insurance, or health insurance. But what about... READ MORE

May 05, 2011 / (2) comments

Pet Insurance: A Veterinarian’s Perspective

For years, there was only one pet insurance company that offered policies to pet owners in the United States. I had only a vague idea of how pet insurance worked. So when clients asked me or a member of my staff about pet insurance, it was convenient to just give them one of the brochures the company... READ MORE

Apr 28, 2011 / (12) comments

 

 


ABOUT HEALTHY ASSURANCE

DR. KENNEY, DVM


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… practices small animal medicine and surgery at Houston Levee Animal Hospital in Cordova, Tennessee. He has a special interest in wellness care and is the author of The Wise Pet Owner, which teaches pet owners how to save money on their pet's healthcare. He also wrote the book Your Guide To Understanding Pet Health Insurance, which helps pet owners understand how pet insurance works and guides them through the research necessary to make an informed decision when choosing a pet insurance policy for their pet. Last, but certainly not least, he blogs about pet insurance -- both for petMD and on his own site.

Dr. Kenney is married and has 4 children and 3 grandchildren. He has two cats, sisters Kasey and Ashley, and a Beagle named Penny Lane.

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