“Insurance Cos slash list of hospitals offering cashless services in Mumbai for making fraudulent claims” “Medical insurers curb cashless facility” “Mediclaim crisis looms, hospitals seek way out”  “No more cashless mediclaim? Common man suffers” Reading these headlines in local dailies, you, as a customer, both prospective and existing, must be really worried. After all, you had counted on health insurance to ride . . .

NEW DELHI: “More and more hospitals will join the network (Preferred Provider Network) in coming days," said minister of state for finance Namo Narayan Meena while replying to a calling attention on the issue, raised by BJP member S S Ahluwalia, in the Rajya Sabha. He said public sector insurance companies had to resort to rationalization of rates for cashless facilities . . .

To break the stalemate with big corporate hospitals, the four state-owned insurers are planning to introduce a new variant of health cover — the Premium Mediclaim. Subscribers will be charged a premium higher than that of a regular health insurance policy, but will be offered cashless facility at all major hospitals on the insurer’s network. “Big hospitals have agreed to revise . . .

You might have to shell out 50 per cent extra premium to get treatment at the country’s high-end hospitals. Following the uproar over withdrawing cashless health insurance claims from high-end hospitals, state-owned non-life insurers are working on a product with differential rating that will bare the expenses of the top hospitals. The four insurers – New India Assurance, United India Insurance, National . . .

If you had been considering the premium amount on health insurance policies to be too stiff, this will come as good news to you. Especially, at a time when most of the general insurance companies have raised their health insurance premiums by 20-30 per cent, the news of a public sector general insurance company, looking at launching one of the . . .