Royal Sundaram
Lifeline Elite
The Royal Sundaram Lifeline Elite plan is a premium health insurance policy offering extensive coverage with sum insured options ranging from ₹25 lakhs up to ₹1.5 crores. Designed for individuals and families, it provides comprehensive essential coverage, including worldwide emergency hospitalization (excluding USA and Canada by default) with a deductible of $1,000 per hospitalization, and critical illness treatment abroad. The plan features no room rent caps or sub-limits, automatic sum insured restoration, accelerated no-claim bonus, and access to over 10,000 cashless network hospitals.
What's good here?
Maternity benefits offered
The insurer will also cover expenses related to maternity— Think hospitalization expenses incurred while giving birth. But they’ll only pay upto ₹2,00,000 and make you wait 3 years before covering this expense. Also, you’ll only get the benefits if both, you and your spouse are enrolled in a single-family floater plan.
The insurer will also cover expenses related to maternity— Think hospitalization expenses incurred while giving birth. But they’ll only pay upto ₹2,00,000 and make you wait 3 years before covering this expense. Also, you’ll only get the benefits if both, you and your spouse are enrolled in a single-family floater plan.
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.
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.
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 - 60 days before you are hospitalized and 180 days after discharge. This includes the cost of medication by the way.
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.
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.
You can pick any room you like
Shared room, single room, deluxe room or any room that’s available. The insurer won’t nitpick on your choice of room since the policy has no restrictions on room rent.
Short 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 after just 2 years. It’s probably the best deal you can get to be honest.
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.
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.
Doctor consultations covered
In the event, you are feeling sick and you want to visit your family physician for a general checkup, the insurer will cover the costs, up to a certain limit. In this case, it’s ₹10,000 annually.
What's bad here?
Gym benefits aren't included in this policy
Gym benefits aren't included in this policy.
Gym benefits aren't included in this policy.
What's okay here?
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.
Consumables aren't covered in this policy
Consumables aren't covered in this policy.
What's lacking here?
Special Bonus for being healthy
Your sum insured increases by 20% 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.
Your sum insured increases by 20% 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.
Add-on
Elite Plus
With this add-on, insurer provides additional benefits like App-based cabs for ambulance cover, restoration for same illness and In-patient hospitalisation cover for pre-existing disease in life-threatening condition once in policy lifetime along with coverage for bariatric surgery, mobility devices like wheelchairs, walkers, etc. and second opinion for additional 11 critical illnesses, international treatment for 3 additional critical illnesses and In-Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) treatment upto defined limits.
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