Title: Health Insurance Plan
1Health Insurance Plan
- - includes individual health insurance plans,
family floater health insurance, health cover,
senior citizens health care and critical illness
health insurance policies.
2Which rider is suitable on your health policy?
- Introduction-
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- Given the rising health care costs, buying a
suitable health insurance plan is very useful.
You can also save tax on the money paid on the
premiums. However, just buying a policy might be
insufficient at times take into consideration
some important aspects of day-to-day life. These
could be facing a critical illness, personal
accident, high hospitalization costs etc. You
might be unable to quote the financial
requirements incurred during the crisis time.
Therefore, its better to buy add-on covers or
riders that provide added benefits at some extra
cost. Add-on cover is the convenience it offers
such as common underwriting process, one-point
renewal and endorsement for both coverages.
3Some of the covers commonly available in India
- Critical illness cover
- Personal accident cover
- High-deductible insurance cover
- Hospital cash cover
- Room rent waiver cover
4- High-deductible insurance cover A
high-deductible health policy is an additional
coverage for people who have an existing
individual health insurance plan or are covered
under a group insurance policy from employer. It
is for reimbursement of expenditure arising out
of hospitalization beyond the limit of the
existing cover or a defined threshold.
5Critical illness cover This provides a lump sum
benefit for certain pre-decided ailments, as
defined by the insurance company. If the insured
is diagnosed with any of these, then he or she
gets a payout apart from the health insurance
policy.
Personal accident cover It covers the risks
that arise due to death or disablement caused
directly and solely by accidents. It is helpful
in cases of medical emergencies arising out of
accidents and are available for a sum insured
ranging from Rs 10 lakh to Rs 20 lakh.
6Hospital cash cover These covers provide daily
cash upon hospitalization due to sickness,
accident, day-care procedures, etc. The amount
could be anything from Rs 1,000-3,000 depending
on the number of days decided by policy terms.
- Room rent waiver cover A room rent waiver
rider allows you to have a higher sub-limit or
rooms without sub-limits in case of
hospitalization. Typically, most insurance
policies have a defined sub-limit on the room
rent, room type (single or double occupancy).
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- It is important that one should select an add-on
cover keeping in mind factors such as existing
plan coverage, family expansion, unplanned
expenses, prevention and wellness care needs and
so on. - For instance, if one is planning to start a
family, his wife can opt for a maternity and
newborn baby cover with the floater health
insurance plan, which provides coverage for
delivery expenses and hospitalization of the
baby. - However, this cover has a waiting period. If
youre a salaried employee already covered by the
employer's group policy, you can opt for a top-up
cover to meet additional expenses. The age,
nature of occupation and lifestyle of the insured
are important factors to keep in mind while
choosing the rider on your health policy.
8- Those who travel often or have exposure to
dangerous labour work such as construction sites,
industrial work etc. their opting for personal
accidental rider makes sense which can add great
value to your health insurance plan.
- If one is living away from one's family or
taking treatment in another city, compassionate
visit cover will be beneficial.
- It covers the cost of air travel by an immediate
family member to the place of hospitalization.
Although buying riders will push up your total
premium at slightly higher end, but one must look
at it in the context of the benefit it offers. - These are niche products that focus on specific
conditions. The waiting periods for these add-on
covers wary, such as fixed benefits covering
critical illnesses dont have the usual waiting
period of two years but only an initial waiting
period of 60-90 days.
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