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The customer frowns as Service Tax on Cashless Services under Health Policies takes off

April 27th, 2010 RSS FEED No comments

Ever since it was first introduced, Cashless Hospitalization remains one of the most attractive services provided by health Insurance companies, to provide advance payment of the hospitalization expenses incurred by policy holders in a “network hospital”. Increasingly, Cashless service has assumed growing importance and almost every insurance company has ensured it provides this benefit [...]

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Ways to Boost Health Insurance Sector in India

April 27th, 2010 RSS FEED No comments

She is the second most populous country in the world. She has been successful in gradually overcoming the global recession and is very much on her way towards achieving a double-digit growth and donning the mantle of being the fastest-growing economy in the world within the next four years. But even as she continues [...]

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Have Health Insurance? Will be overcharged!

April 21st, 2010 RSS FEED No comments

What is the first thing that the hospital staff asks you as you try to get your close one admitted? Along with the other questions about name, age, symptoms experienced, there is one question that they do not fail to ask, “Do you have health insurance?” The answer to this question has more implications [...]

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Lobsters for Paralysis ?

April 19th, 2010 RSS FEED No comments

In what seems like heaven sent news for Sea food lovers, researchers at the Centre for Paralysis Research in Indiana have begun research on the topic of paralysis prevention by using lobsters! This was after scientists discovered that a simple sugar found in the lobsters shell is useful in repairing damaged spinal cords.
The sugar [...]

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