Aditya Birla Health Insurance Company Limited (ABHICL), the health insurance arm of Aditya Birla Capital Limited, has introduced new services, product solutions & add-ons to the existing products to enable customers to safeguard their health during COVID-19 i.e., from the 1st stage of virus detection to post-recovery phase covering pre and post-hospitalization expenses.
New Offerings
i.Minimise the Initial waiting period– ABHICL to minimise the Initial waiting period from 30 to 15 days for all the policyholders for COVID-19 related Inpatient Hospitalization claims. This offering will be launched for policyholders soon.
ii.Extending the Home Treatment Facility– Another new key offering to be introduced is to extend the Home Treatment Facility to policyholders, otherwise who require hospitalization and where policyholders have been advised Home Treatment by the treating Doctor as per the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) guidelines.
Add- ons
i.All the indemnity products of ABHICL, namely, Activ Health, Activ Assure and Activ Care offer hospitalisation covers, in-patient treatment, pre-hospitalisation, post-hospitalisation, and ambulance cover for COVID-19.
ii.Hospi cash products like the Group active health and Group active secure also cover COVID-19 treatment on indemnity and on a fixed benefit basis.
Corona Kavach Policy
Recently ABHICL has launched ‘Corona Kavach Policy’, a compensatory health insurance product that covers COVID-19. It covers hospitalisation expenses in case of inpatient admission due to COVID-19 infection and any other co-morbidity which a patient may have.
Key Info– To ensure proper service to policyholders and customers during COVID times, ABHICL has initiated several alternate processes.
Other initiative & campaign launched by ABHICL
i.ABHICL has launched an initiative ‘Active Dayz@Home’ during the lockdown to facilitate seamless healthcare to patrons during the lockdown.
ii.It has also launched a campaign #HealthFromHome that re-imagined a healthy lifestyle for Indians during the lockdown.
Recent Related News:
i.IndiaFirst Life Insurance Associates with BOB Financial to Offer COVID-19 cum Hospital Cash Cover to BOB Credit Cardholders.
ii.Karnataka Vikas Grameena Bank(KVGB) launched ‘Vikas Abhaya’ a loan scheme to provide some relief to Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise(MSME) borrowers whose business activities are disrupted on account of the COVID-19 pandemic in Dharwad.
About ABHICL
Headquarters– Mumbai, Maharashtra
CEO– Mayank Bathwal
