
TN government warns insurance company of penalty if cashless treatment is not delivered properly
The Hindu
In a letter to the United Indian Insurance Company, the additional chief secretary of the Finance Department pointed to complaints of beneficiaries not being given cashless treatment and of hospitals insisting on payments over the insurance claim
The Tamil Nadu government has warned the United Indian Insurance Company (UIIC) that it will invoke a penalty clause, if UIIC fails to instruct all hospitals empanelled under the New Health Insurance Scheme, 2018 to ensure cashless treatment for pensioners/family pensioners. Under the scheme, healthcare assistance is provided to beneficiaries on a cashless basis for upto ₹4 lakh for a block period of four years for the accredited treatments/surgeries in the hospitals approved by UIIC.More Related News