Best Cancer Insurance in Hong Kong 2025

Best insurers for cancer insurance

Need a reliable health cover for cancer treatments? We'll be your best guide.

Here is our selection of some top health insurance providers for cancer in Hong Kong*:

*In alphabetical order. This list is compiled based on our research and doesn’t aim to be exhaustive.

Few things can be more daunting than a cancer diagnosis. In 2020 alone, cancer took 14,805 lives (about 30% of all deaths) in Hong Kong, as the leading cause of death in the city for decades.

What's worse, cancer treatment can amount to an inestimable medical cost, especially in the private sector. To give you a better idea, in the past 2 years, cancer treatment in Hong Kong costed about US$81,000 (around HK$628,000) per treatment on average. Our exclusive research with healthcare and insurance providers showed the cancer treatment costs of an ongoing case reached US$800,000 (about HK$6,200,600) in Hong Kong.

This is exactly why it is essential to get covered for cancer before the worst ever happens, so as to open up yourself to choices in the private sector if urgent medical attention is required and ensure you don't miss the best timing for treatment because of the long waiting time at public hospitals, without the burden to pay an arm and a leg out of pocket*.

Our experts at Alea know all insurance products by heart and are here to recommend some top health insurers for cancer protection with the best costs, coverage, customer experience, claim process and additional features.

Let us sort everything out for you so you can focus on the more important things in life.

*Do you know? Critical illness protection is also a sensible option to cover you for cancer. Check out our Critical Illness 101 article over here.

How do we select these insurers?

We have been working closely with our 25+ insurance partners for many years and we know their products inside out. As an independent insurance broker, we choose to work with insurers with an excellent track record and sell only products that we believe in, tried and tested. The above recommendations are made by our board of licensed insurance advisors based on criteria including the costs, coverage, customer experience, claim process and additional features of each insurer. In short, we are not paid to make these recommendations.

The bottom line

Let’s be frank, there is no “best” insurer or “one-size-fits-all” insurance plan. Every product has its own strengths & weaknesses and it is important that you have them in mind before signing a policy, which certainly takes a lot of browsing, reading and comparing. But with Alea, rest assured that you will get peace of mind as we simplify everything for you.

We tailor each recommendation to suit your specific needs and budget and provide unbiased advice on a case-by-case basis so you can find the best fit for your situation. Even better, our advisory service comes free of charge – since we are remunerated via a commission on the insurance premium you pay directly to the insurance provider!

Get in touch with an advisor today for a detailed comparison of your insurance options!