Ask HN: Is buying health insurance considered an In-App Purchase to Apple?

4 points by peteratt 5 years ago | 1 comment

Hi all,

So I'm entertaining the idea of a (US-based) mobile health insurance broker, and given the topic has taken a lot of attention lately, figured I might ask since some of you are deeply knowledgeable in the topic of IAP.

My question is simple: I want to create a healthcare insurance flow into an iOS app. It'd ask the usual questions, give you a quote, and then offer you the option to purchase the insurance and pay premiums for it. Would Apple require you to take a 30% cut of the insurance premiums, and make it impossible to hand over to the web browser for purchase?

Healthcare is, as you all know, already a highly-regulated market with a set pricing model, which would make such a use case impossible.

Thanks in advance!

dnh44 5 years ago |

The 30% IAP is only for digital services.

For real world services/products you can use Apple Pay for which they take somewhere around 2%.