ICICI Prudential has tied up with the healthcare service provider to enable investors in its ICICI Prudential Savings Fund use the money seamlessly for medical purpose.
Mihir Tanna, Associate Director, S K Patodia & Associates, will answer your personal income tax queries.
Take these factors into consideration before buying a healthcare policy
Omkeshwar Singh, head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries:
The high sum insured will allow the insurer the luxury of taking treatment in a deluxe room in premium priced hospitals and cover high-cost medical expenses for critical illnesses.
Medical expenses for senior citizens are a foregone conclusion. Since claims are bound to happen with people of higher age, insurance companies do not want senior citizens as customers. Is it right?
Mihir Tanna, Associate Director, S K Patodia & Associates, answers your tax queries.
The minimum sum insured has gone up more than three times.
For the elderly, the need for health insurance is much higher. Getting it, however, is not that simple.
Theatres, drama theatres will be shut, while film and television shootings will continue if there is no crowding. Parks and playgrounds will also be closed, he said.
Roopam Asthana, CEO and whole-time director, Liberty General Insurance Ltd, will answer your queries on HEALTH insurance and AUTO insurance.
We give you a number of instances when office mediclaim may not meet all your needs.
One can no longer get these facilities at high-end hospitals in Delhi, National Capital Region and in Mumbai, Bengaluru and Chennai.
A consumer court has pulled up New India Assurance Company Ltd for refusing to reimburse the cost of a life-saving equipment to a claimant, who bought it to overcome a sleep disorder, on the ground that it was not covered under the policy.
A consumer court has directed an insurance company to pay compensation to a policy holder, who was refused reimbursement for the treatment of her pre-maturely born baby on the ground that it did not come within the purview of the policy.
The CBI after registering the FIRs carried out searches on Thursday morning at 14 locations in Jammu, Srinagar, Delhi, Mumbai, Noida in Uttar Pradesh, Trivandrum in Kerala and Darbhanga in Bihar, they said.
Move follows pressure from insurers, who say they are losing on these payments.
Sanjib Jha, CEO, Coverfox Insurance Broking, answers your health insurance related queries.
Mediclaim, a health insurance brand offered by general insurance companies, is a reimbursement plan whereas critical illness insurance is a benefit plan that both life and non-life insurance companies offer.
Instead of enhancing the sum insured of your basic policy, a more cost-effective option is buying a super top-up policy.
'I have to take better care of myself.' 'I was lucky that the cancer was diagnosed at a very early stage.'
The group policy that an employer will have taken will not allow you to carry your claims history if you decide to leave that particular job. That means if you do happen to leave that job (but in the meantime there has been an illness to any of the covered persons) than it will be an pre-existing illness as far as taking a fresh independent polcy is concerned, says insurance expert Harsh Roongta.
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Three mediclaim policies that cover babies from the day they are born.
With Covid-19 cases across the country rising rapidly once again, demand for health insurance products has spiked. Insurers are seeing an uptick in inquiries for such products and underwriting more premiums in the segment. Already, health insurance was growing at a rapid pace since the onset of the pandemic as awareness around risk had heightened among consumers. But the country recorded more than 600,000 Covid-19 cases in the past week, which is almost a six-fold rise than the previous week. Owing to this, the spike in demand for health insurance products is inevitable, experts said.
ICICI Prudential Life Insurance has expanded its health insurance portfolio to cover over 1,000 surgical procedures and hospitalisation.
Chains such as Fortis generate a significant portion of their revenue through health insurance policy reimbursements.
Transcript of the chat with insurance expert Jigessh Patel.
Union Budget 2010-11 seeks to impose service tax on the services rendered by the hospitals where the payment is made to them by insurance companies and/or the TPAs. How will this affect you?
After the Delhi high court's ruling, blanket exclusion of genetic disorders from coverage is likely to become a thing of the past.
A lowdown on some salient points that you must keep in mind when opting for a health insurance.
How many health insurance policies should you have? Should you have mediclaim policies at all if you do not have any medical problems? Which are the best health insurance policies available for you today in India? How can one claim money after hospitalisation if you do not have a cashless mediclaim facility? How and where can you lodge complaints against your mediclaim insurance company if you have a problem? Here are the answers.
'The government wants foreign companies to capture the insurance market.'
Join us for an online chat with health insurance expert Anil Rego between 2 pm and 3 pm on Wednesday, October 7.
A survey of more than a 1,000 plus salaried IT/ITES taxpayers from Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad has revealed interesting facts about how they plan their taxes, medical insurance, life insurance and investments.
Health insurance expert Anil Rego in an online chat with readers answers health insurance queries.
The minister said that starting July, in four cities -- Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai -- the PPN system had been put in place to include only those hospitals that have agreed to work at given rates for specified procedures. In the rest of the country, the earlier process of rendering cashless facility was still continuing.
Autorickshaw drivers had threatened to go on a strike in support of their demands, which included a hike in fares.
The Supreme Court has ruled that public sector insurance companies cannot refuse to provide medical cover policies to those suffering from pre-existing diseases and said such an action was arbitrary, illegal and unconstitutional.
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