By Admin 
Insurance for serious diseases: Health insurance policies protect people like a protective shield during serious illnesses. Insurance policy protects people from financial loss. Many such cases keep coming to light, in which due to some serious illness, people lose their entire life’s earnings in one go. However, people’s awareness regarding health insurance policy has increased. There has been an increase in the number of people taking insurance after the GST reform.
If you have also taken a health policy, then you should know some important things about it. For example, whether your policy provides coverage for critical illnesses or not. Most standard policies do not provide coverage for serious illnesses. By taking standard health insurance, people are assured that they will get a claim against every illness. But this does not happen and they spend their savings in the treatment of these diseases. Therefore, next time if you take an insurance policy, keep these things in mind.
What is critical illness?
Critical Illness Cover is a rider or add on plan. Which you have to add to your standard health insurance policy. For this, customers have to pay separately. Under the Critical Illness Plan, you get cover against serious illnesses.
Diseases which are not covered by basic health insurance. Under Critical Illness cover, you get a claim in case of cancer, heart attack, stroke, kidney failure, paralysis, serious surgery and various types of critical illnesses.
The amount is received in lump sum
The most important thing is that, under this claim, you are paid a lump sum amount. Treatment of serious diseases takes a long time. In such a situation, a lot of money is required. In standard health insurance, the cover is given to you through online or offline mode on showing the hospital bill.
Under critical illness cover, you just have to report the diagnosis of your illness. After this, the decided amount is given to you in lump sum. Many times people miss work due to these serious diseases. Due to which they start facing problems in running the house. By getting a lump sum amount they can solve their problems.
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