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Health Insurance

• Health insurance takes care of your medical expenses and ensures that out-of-pocket expenses are curtailed up to the Sum insured.
• A health insurance policy ensures that you can avail cashless treatment at a network hospital, typically covering 30 days and 60 days pre and post hospitalization, respectively, in most of the Health Insurance plans.
• One can add value to the Base Health Insurance Plan by complementing them with additional benefits such as Personal Accident (PA) Cover, Critical Illness (CI) Cover, etc. These products are available at a very nominal cost adding benefits, which are not a part of the Base Health Insurance plan. For Example, A PA plan helps by providing coverage for disability, which is typically not covered under the basic health insurance plan. An individual needs not go through any waiting period and medical checkups for a PA cover.
• One can also invest on one of the popular senior citizen health insurance policies and ensure comprehensive security for their elderly parents or secure their old age that often brings along several ailments that require expensive medical treatment.
• Almost all the health insurance plans include Coronavirus treatment cover. As per the IRDAI guidelines, insurers have also launched COVID-19 specific best health insurance.
• Two special COVID health insurance policies namely, Corona Rakshak policy and Corona Kavach policy also introduced that provide lump sum payment upon diagnosis and also pay for the cost of consumable items like PPE Kits, Masks, Gloves, etc.