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Life, general, and standalone health insurance companies and third-party administrators must establish systems to let policyholders track cashless requests and claim statuses online. Insurers must ensure that claim repudiation does not rely on presumptions and conjectures. The insurer must communicate claim denial directly to the policyholder with specific reasons, policy clauses, and grievance redressal details. Insurers must also provide granular details of payments made and disallowed amounts to the policyholder.
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भारतीय बीमा विनियामक और विकास प्राधिकरण INSURANCE REGULATORY AND DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY OF INDIA
संदर्भ सं.:आईआरडीएआई/एचएलटी/सीआईआर/विविध/053/03/2021 Ref. No: IRDAI/HLT/CIR/MISC/053/03/2021 दिनांक/Date:19.03.2021
परिपत्र Circular
प्रति / To, जीवन, साधारण और स्टैण्डएलोन स्वास्थ्य बीमा कंपनियों (एआईसी एवं ईसीजीसी के सिवाय) और टी.पी.ए. के मुख्य कार्यकारी अधिकारी CEOs of Life, General and Standalone Health Insurance Companies (Except AIC & ECGC) and TPAs
विषय: स्वास्थ्य बीमा दावों का निपटान Re: Health Insurance Claims Settlement
Reference is drawn to the provisions of Regulation 27 (Settlement/Rejection of claim by insurer), Regulation 30 (Administration of Health Policies) and Regulation 33 (Engagement of Services of TPAs by Insurers in relation to Health Insurance Policies) of the IRDAI (Health Insurance) Regulations, 2016, Regulation 21 (3) (c) (I) (b) of IRDAI (Third Party Administrators - Health Services) Regulations, 2016 and circular Ref: IRDAI/CAD/CIR/PPHI/059/04/2019 dated 10.04.2019 regarding information to be provided to the insurance policyholders/claimants about various insurance policy services.
It is essential that all insurers establish procedures to let policy holders get clear and transparent communication at various stages of claim processing. As specified in the within referred circular dated 10.4.2019, all the insurers shall ensure putting in place systems to enable policyholders track the status of cashless requests/ claims filed with the Insurer/TPA through the Website/Portal/App or any other authorized electronic means on an ongoing basis. The status shall cover from the time of receipt of request to the time of disposal of the claim along with the decision thereon.
सर्वे सं. 115/1, फाईनंशियल डिस्ट्रिक्ट, नानकरामगुडा, हैदराबाद - 500032 Survey No. 115/1, Financial District, Nanakramguda, Hyderabad 500 032 दूरभाष Phone: 040-20204000; www.irdai.gov.in
भारतीय बीमा विनियामक और विकास प्राधिकरण INSURANCE REGULATORY AND DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY OF INDIA
Where claims are processed through TPAs, the insurers are permitted to let their respective Third Party Administrators operationalize the claim tracking mechanism. The policyholders shall be invariably notified in all the communications, the location to track the claim status.
Insurer shall ensure that the repudiation of the claim is not based on “presumptions and conjectures”. As specified in the IRDAI (Health Insurance) Regulations, 2016, where a claim is denied or repudiated, the communication about the denial or the repudiation shall be made only by the Insurer by specifically stating the reasons for the denial or repudiation, while necessarily referring to the corresponding policy conditions. The insurer shall also furnish the grievance redressal procedures available with the Insurance Company and with the Insurance Ombudsman along with the detailed addresses of the respective offices. Claims shall be processed in a transparent, seamless and efficient manner within the prescribed timelines.