When faced with a medical emergency, you pay cash or use your credit card, instead of asking why the hospital is not accepting your cashless medical insurance. This is exactly what harassed consumers found out when health insurance companies recently stopped cashless treatment making customers pay first and then get reimbursed. Health insurers blamed private hospitals of inflating bills that were . . .

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 . . .

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 some time now, become a hurdle. . . .

Recently, we came across news in an online Publication, business-standard.com Recently, we came across news in an online Publication, business-standard.com The decision by public sector health insurance companies to deny cashless services to their clients has been criticised by Fortis, a leading corporate healthcare chain. Chains such as Fortis generate a significant portion of their revenue through health insurance policy reimbursements. The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry was also critical. . . .

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 to march ahead and bask in . . .