Finally, patients' pain enters PSUs' horizon

State-owned insurance companies today agreed to restore cashless treatment facilities in big private hospitals on case-to-case basis, a development that will benefit lakhs of mediclaim policy holders. The insurance companies have decided to restore cashless facilities on a case-to-case basis. We discussed ways of making people part of the facility and how the reimbursements to them can be revived, head of health insurance vertical at ICICI Lombard Sanjay Datta said after a CII-initiated meeting between insurers and the healthcare industry. The state-owned insurance companies, Oriental Insurance, New India Assurance, National Insurance and United Insurance, have also agreed to expand the ...

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