Cashless mediclaim facility at 4 more hospitals

Fortis group of hospitals and Cumballa Hill Hospital in Kemps Corner have agreed to be part of the Preferred Provider Network (PPN) programme of public sector insurance companies for cashless mediclaim facility.

An official said, "Fortis group has 3 hospitals in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region at Mulund, Kalyan and Vashi. All the 3 will join the PPN network." - Manthan K Mehta

Vijay Shetty, director of Cumballa Hill Hospital, said, "The cashless facility to mediclaim policy holders will be comprehensive to patients within week."

Till now, Jaslok was the only major hospital in the island city to have joined this association.

General Insurance Public Sector Association (GIPSA) a group comprising 4 public sector insurance companies - New India Assurance Company Ltd, United India Insurance Company Ltd, Oriental Insurance Company Ltd and National Insurance Company Ltd, had decided restrict the cashless medical facility to hospitals approving to join the PPN to curb the mounting losses to fraudulent or inflated claims from July 1, 2010 onwards.

Apart from Fortis, the other major hospital in the network Jaslok Hospital, Jupiter Hospital Thane, MGM Vashi, Sterling Wockhardt, Vashi, Kohinoor Hospital, Kurla, Seven Hills, Andheri (E).