IRDA has released statistics pertaining to Indian Health Insurance Industry for the year 2008 -09 and some of the facts are:
This is the truth. If you do not agree the do let us have your comments.
Monday, May 31, 2010
Facts Indian Health Insurance 2010
Facts Indian Health Insurance 2010
IRDA has released statistics pertaining to Indian Health Insurance Industry for the year 2008 -09 and some of the facts are:
This is the truth. If you do not agree the do let us have your comments.
IRDA has released statistics pertaining to Indian Health Insurance Industry for the year 2008 -09 and some of the facts are:
This is the truth. If you do not agree the do let us have your comments.
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Health Insurance Policy with sum assured of Rs 50 Lakhs seems to be a favourite number of Indian Insurance Companies – Yes the time has changed
Health Insurance Policy with sum assured of Rs 50 Lakhs seems to be a favourite number of Indian Insurance Companies – Yes the time has changed
Max Bupa made the beginning in our country by coming up with Health Insurance Policy for maximum sum assured of Rs 50 Lakhs and within few weeks it has been able to sell 15 policies. This shows that there was an unfulfilled demand for such product. May be the initial success of this product has appealed so much to other insurance companies that now we hear:
•New India Assurance
•Apollo Munich
•Iffco Tokio
all of them have started working actively for coming up with similar or a competitive product. An improvement being considered by New India is that its product will not be a normal domestic product (only within India) but will also be valid for overseas treatment.
We welcome this move to upgrade the Indian customer by offering premium product to him.
We have questions before us:
(i) Under the name of Medical Tourism USA Insurance Companies are sending their patients to India which shows that Indian Health Care industry has achieved certain level of acceptance in the world and is economical also.
(ii) Under New India policy- will HNI’s of India start going to foreign countries during summer season for treatment under the policy. Will the travel expenses be also paid as part of claim? If we are charging higher premium let us charge something more and include this facility also. This is the wish of many potential customers, who talked to me in last 2 days.
(iii) Is it worth while to have a product where few hundred policies are to be issued during the year? Will these polices be handled by same TPA’s or a special team will be set up.
If you have some more questions do let us know. We will be pleased to have your comments.
Max Bupa made the beginning in our country by coming up with Health Insurance Policy for maximum sum assured of Rs 50 Lakhs and within few weeks it has been able to sell 15 policies. This shows that there was an unfulfilled demand for such product. May be the initial success of this product has appealed so much to other insurance companies that now we hear:
•New India Assurance
•Apollo Munich
•Iffco Tokio
all of them have started working actively for coming up with similar or a competitive product. An improvement being considered by New India is that its product will not be a normal domestic product (only within India) but will also be valid for overseas treatment.
We welcome this move to upgrade the Indian customer by offering premium product to him.
We have questions before us:
(i) Under the name of Medical Tourism USA Insurance Companies are sending their patients to India which shows that Indian Health Care industry has achieved certain level of acceptance in the world and is economical also.
(ii) Under New India policy- will HNI’s of India start going to foreign countries during summer season for treatment under the policy. Will the travel expenses be also paid as part of claim? If we are charging higher premium let us charge something more and include this facility also. This is the wish of many potential customers, who talked to me in last 2 days.
(iii) Is it worth while to have a product where few hundred policies are to be issued during the year? Will these polices be handled by same TPA’s or a special team will be set up.
If you have some more questions do let us know. We will be pleased to have your comments.
Monday, May 17, 2010
Portability of health insurance
As predicted by us vanilla product will be introduced by all general insurance / health insurance companies in near future as the product details are being sent to IRDA. New health insurance product to be sold by all companies will have following features:
•Max sum assured – Rs 2 Lakhs only
•Preexisting diseases will be covered after 4 years
•Max entry age will be 65 years
•No claim bonus – Reduced premium or increased sum assured will be given. Companies like Oriental will have to change their policy of not giving benefit to the customers as far as this policy is concerned.
•Indicative premium for Rs 1 Lakh – up to age 18 years will be Rs 1000, which means that we are sticking to existing rates. We can expect Rs 1400 for someone who is in the 18 -35 age bracket.
•To be introduced by all companies. We feel Max Bupa may not come out with this product. Let us see what will be the stand of Regulator (IRDA) with respect to this-will Max Bupa be asked to introduce this product ?
Let us see what is the ultimate outcome when the product is introduced?
Our suggestion :
Let all the companies come out with a joint advertising campaign –explain benefits of having health insurance. We should aim for 10 crores policies to be sold under this category. With an average policy size of Rs 2500 this should mean premium of Rs. 25000 crores.
•Max sum assured – Rs 2 Lakhs only
•Preexisting diseases will be covered after 4 years
•Max entry age will be 65 years
•No claim bonus – Reduced premium or increased sum assured will be given. Companies like Oriental will have to change their policy of not giving benefit to the customers as far as this policy is concerned.
•Indicative premium for Rs 1 Lakh – up to age 18 years will be Rs 1000, which means that we are sticking to existing rates. We can expect Rs 1400 for someone who is in the 18 -35 age bracket.
•To be introduced by all companies. We feel Max Bupa may not come out with this product. Let us see what will be the stand of Regulator (IRDA) with respect to this-will Max Bupa be asked to introduce this product ?
Let us see what is the ultimate outcome when the product is introduced?
Our suggestion :
Let all the companies come out with a joint advertising campaign –explain benefits of having health insurance. We should aim for 10 crores policies to be sold under this category. With an average policy size of Rs 2500 this should mean premium of Rs. 25000 crores.
Monday, May 10, 2010
23 Life Insurance Companies are planning to enter India.
23 Life Insurance Companies are planning to enter India.
Many life insurance companies of the worked are planning to enter India.
We under stand the list is of 23 companies and as and when we come to know about more names we will be put the same in our blog.
In addition to this following Health Insurance Companies are also planning to enter
Question before us is – where are the people to manage these companies?
We in Insurance Foundation of India feel that at least 100 Management Schools (out of 1450 operating in India ) should start MBA Insurance as a separate course during 2011 session otherwise shortage of manpower in itself will retard the growth of this industry.
Many life insurance companies of the worked are planning to enter India.
We under stand the list is of 23 companies and as and when we come to know about more names we will be put the same in our blog.
In addition to this following Health Insurance Companies are also planning to enter
Question before us is – where are the people to manage these companies?
We in Insurance Foundation of India feel that at least 100 Management Schools (out of 1450 operating in India ) should start MBA Insurance as a separate course during 2011 session otherwise shortage of manpower in itself will retard the growth of this industry.
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