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Courtesy the insurance companies, the malaise that was until recently the exclusive preserve of senior citizens has now become universal in its applicability.
I am talking about the vagaries of what you may be called upon to pay as renewal premium on your health insurance policy.
In case of senior citizens, every renewal has, for quite [...]

News Flash:  “The General Insurance Public Sector Association consisting of four major state-run insurance companies – United India, New India, Oriental Insurance and National Insurance have decided to stop cash-less hospitalization in most hospitals”
Shock and outrage were the two words that described the reaction of most of the customers and media reports on this [...]

Hospitals overcharging Patients under Cashless Claims is under the media buzz since a few days.
Here is a quick post which reasons why Hospitals overcharge Cashless Claims:
No Contracted Rates with Hospitals:

TPAs do not have contract binding rates (treatment-wise) with Hospitals in their network. Globally, TPAs contract treatment-wise rates with each Hospital in [...]

Preamble
Last 3-4 days, we have been seeing a lot of news in various media about cashless network hospital list being brought down to fewer in numbers & this list does not have big hospitals where the treatment cost is high & hence, have a greater need for their presence in list. We fear [...]