Protect your income with cancer insurance

Help cover expenses from diagnosis through recovery

Hopefully, you and your family will never face cancer. But if you do, Colonial Life is here to help. Our cancer insurance helps provide a financial safety net that can assist with covering cancer-related expenses that medical insurance doesn’t cover, so you can focus on what matters most: recovery.

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Financial hardship does not have to follow a cancer diagnosis

Cancer insurance helps you live well while getting well

Most of us don't expect to face a serious illness like cancer. Some look to family history to determine risk, but that often doesn't tell the whole story.

Fortunately, more people are surviving cancer thanks to early detection and more aggressive treatments. If you're diagnosed with cancer, you may find that your medical insurance doesn't cover everything. In addition to your day-to-day bills, you could incur costs for treatment and recovery, such as:

The need to scale back on work or take a leave of absence during treatment and recovery only adds to the stress. That's where supplemental cancer insurance helps. It assists with protecting you from financial hardship in the face of mounting cancer expenses.

How Colonial Life cancer insurance works

If cancer affects your life, you should be able to focus on finding the best treatment and getting better – not on how you'll pay your bills.

Colonial Life cancer insurance offers benefits to assist with out-of-pocket costs that may not be covered by your medical insurance, including expenses related to inpatient or outpatient treatment, surgery, travel and recovery care.

Equally important, some plans also cover an annual cancer screening test to promote prevention and early diagnosis. Optional riders may be available to provide even more financial protection during the initial diagnosis period and hospital stays.

With Colonial Life cancer insurance policies:

Plans vary, so talk with your Colonial Life benefits counselor to learn more about how cancer insurance can help provide financial protection for you and your family.

An example of how cancer insurance can help

Paul and Kim were preparing for their second child when they learned Paul had cancer. Here’s how cancer insurance helped cover their out-of-pocket expenses without sacrificing the nest egg they had saved up for their family.