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Health Pulse Enhanced

Health Pulse Enhanced is a good policy. It doesn't have too many outrageous conditions and it offers a few extra benefits. However, they will make you wait 4 years before they start covering pre-existing diseases (like diabetes). So you might want to consider other alternatives.

What's good here?

coPay

You’ll never have to split the bill

The insurer will bear the entire cost of treatment (up to the sum insured). You won’t have to pay a single penny. Meaning this policy has no co-payment.

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diseaseSublimit

You always have full cover irrespective of the disease

No funny business here. If your insurer hasn’t explicitly stated they won’t cover a certain illness, you can claim the full amount up to the sum insured, irrespective of the disease you’re dealing with. Meaning this policy doesn't impose the dreaded disease wise sub-limits.

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dayCare

Day Care treatments covered

If you’re hospitalized for less than 24 hours in lieu of a minor procedure, then the insurer will cover these costs too. Think dialysis, chemotherapy or minor surgeries.

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domiciliary

Full coverage even if you are forced to hospitalize at home

The insurer will bear the costs even if you are hospitalized at home due to a condition or the hospital running out of beds. In insurance lingo, they call this a policy with domiciliary cover.

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prePost

Pre & Post hospitalization expenses covered

No worries if the doctor had to run a host of diagnostic tests before or after hospitalizing you. The insurer has your back. They will cover this amount in full for a pretty reasonable duration - 30 days before you are hospitalized and 60 days after discharge. This includes the cost of medication by the way.

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healthCheckup

Free Health Checkups every year

If you’re planning on getting a full body checkup every year just to make sure you’re in fine working condition, the insurer will cover the costs.

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ayush

Covers Alternative Medicine

Think of getting Ayurvedic, Homeopathic or other alternative treatments to cure an illness? Your insurer will cover you fully, up to the sum insured.

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What's bad here?

ped

Long waiting period for pre-existing diseases

If you’re already dealing with diabetes, cardiovascular problems or any such illnesses, the insurer will cover all costs arising out of these pre-existing problems only after 4 long years. It could be much shorter you know? Like 2 years perhaps!

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What's okay here?

roomRent

You can pick a Single Private room but nothing fancy

You can share a room or you could have a single room for yourself. But if you are looking for anything slightly fancy, be ready to foot a part of the bill.

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restoration

Some Restoration Benefit

Even after you claim part of the cover on one occasion, you will have 100% of the cover restored, if you are hospitalized one more time in a bid to treat a different complication. In the same year, by the way.

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ncb

Special Bonus for being healthy

Your sum insured increases by 10% each year, even if you've claimed in the previous year. But before you get too ahead of yourself, do note that they’ll stop offering you the bonus when your sum insured increases by 100%. But hey, it's still a bonus.

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Add-ons

Safeguard

With this add-on, the insurer will increase your cover in line with inflation every year, your bonus amount will not be affected if the claim is less than ₹50,000 in the entire year and you also get extended coverage for generally excluded items like syringes, gloves, PPE kits etc.

Hospital Cash

The insurer pays a lumpsum by adding a fixed sum (daily cash) every day until the day of discharge so you can deal with any potential loss in income during this time. The money will be reimbursed to you after you submit the required documents post-discharge, and while this looks like a neat benefit to have, we don’t recommend it since the benefit doesn’t compensate for the extra premium you pay.

Personal Accident cover

With this add-on, the insurance company will payout a lumpsum amount based on the cover chosen, in case the proposer of the policy passes away in an accident.

E-consultations

With this add-on, you get unlimited tele/ online consultations under the plan.

Enhanced NCB

With this add-on, the insurer will provide an additional No Claim Bonus of 20% of the base Sum Insured at renewal, subject to a maximum of 200% of the base Sum insured.

Critical Illness

With this add-on, you get a lump sum payment in the event you are diagnosed with critical illnesses such as ike cancer, open heart replacement, kidney failure, stroke, organ transplant, etc.

Enhanced Refill

With this add-on, the insurer will Re-fill the cover upto 150% of the sum insured, instead of regular 100% of Sum Insured. But remember, this is applicable only if you are hospitalized one more time in a bid to treat a different complication.

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. Health Pulse Enhanced imposes 3 kinds of waiting periods -
  • 30-Day Waiting Period: Hospitalizations won’t be covered for the first 30 days of the policy unless it’s an accident.
  • Specific Illness Waiting Period: There’s a 2-year waiting period for a list of diseases which is a mandate before you can start claiming.
  • Pre-Existing Disease Waiting Period: There's a 4-year waiting period for any pre-existing disease you may have while buying the policy.
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