02 November 2020

Costly Covers, Better Care

Debjoy Sengupta
Modern Treatments Covered Balloon Sinuplasty Deep Brain stimulation Oral Chemotherapy Immunotherapy Intra Vitreal Injections Robotic Surgeries Stereotactic Radio Surgeries Bronchial Thermoplasty Intra Operative Neuro Monitoring Stem Cell Therapy *** The pandemic has truly changed our life’s worth. Today we are extremely careful about things we would seldom care before. Take, for example, health insurance. Everyone’s running for cover. Hospital bills are running into lakhs of rupees. Social media like Twitter, Facebook, and others are flooded with complaints on claim rejection, non-payment and reimbursement settlement delays. In fact, many were left with a deep hole in their pockets, settling a major chunk of their bills in cash as hospitals chose to charge patients even for doctors’ safety gear. These were not covered under health insurance. Policyholders were often...
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