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The straight-shooter - one plan, no variant maze: an uncapped room, unlimited recharge, and up to 30% off renewal for staying active.
Where this plan is strong, where to watch - and how it performs on what matters most.
You’ve read the shape of this cover. Now put a real bill through it.
Filter by the worry on your mind to see how this plan handles each concern - its sub-limits, waiting periods and the catches.
The optional Room Rent Modification benefit lowers your premium by limiting you to a Single Private AC Room or a Twin Sharing Room. If you buy that option and take a costlier room, you pay a proportionate share of the associated medical expenses too.
A pre-existing disease must be declared when you apply and accepted by the insurer - after 36 months, cover applies only to what was declared.
ICU stays draw from the same Sum Insured as the rest of your hospital bill, so several days in intensive care at Rs 30k to Rs 50k can use up a large part of your cover even though there is no ICU sub-limit.
The recharge cannot pay the bill that used up your cover. The policy's single-claim maximum counts your Sum Insured, Cumulative Bonus, Cumulative Bonus Super, Plus Benefit and Unlimited Care, but not the recharge, so one very large hospital stay is still limited to those. Any recharge you do not use is lost at the end of the policy year.
The bonus is tied to renewing on time. If the policy is not renewed by the end date or by the end of the grace period, the whole accrued bonus is forfeited.
The 20% is worked out on the base Sum Insured alone; your Cumulative Bonus, Cumulative Bonus Super and the Plus Benefit itself are left out of that calculation. The 10 lakh ceiling means the pool stops growing once your Sum Insured passes 50 lakh.
These conditions are covered after a waiting period - not excluded. Once the wait is over, they're treated like any other illness. Select a body region, or view the entire body, to see which ones this plan names.
How long you wait, for what
Covered from the first day, with no waiting at all.
After the first month, ordinary illness is covered.
Each one is then covered, like any other illness.
Conditions you declared when you bought the plan.
After this, only proven fraud can be held against a claim.
Already diagnosed with one of these? A different rule applies - conditions you already have follow the pre-existing waiting period. See how that works
Abnormal menstrual bleeding
Lower Abdomen & Pelvis · Female
Very heavy or unusual bleeding during periods.
“Dilatation and Curettage”
“Hysterectomy for menorrhagia or Fibromyoma or prolapse of uterus unless necessitated by malignancy”
Section 4.1(a)(ii) · pages 34–36
Lower Abdomen & Pelvis · Female
A painful problem where womb tissue grows outside the womb.
If it's due to cancer, this waiting period doesn't apply.
“Surgery of Genito-urinary system unless necessitated by malignancy”
Section 4.1(a)(ii) · pages 34–36
Scrotal swelling (Hydrocele/Varicocele)
Lower Abdomen & Pelvis · Male
Swelling or enlarged veins in the male private parts.
“Surgery of Genito-urinary system unless necessitated by malignancy”
“All types of Hernia & Hydrocele”
Section 4.1(a)(ii) · pages 34–36
Uterus fibroids
Lower Abdomen & Pelvis · Female
Safe, non-cancerous lumps inside the womb that can cause heavy periods.
“Surgery of Genito-urinary system unless necessitated by malignancy”
“Hysterectomy for menorrhagia or Fibromyoma or prolapse of uterus unless necessitated by malignancy”
“Myomectomy for fibroids”
Section 4.1(a)(ii) · pages 34–36
Dropped uterus
Lower Abdomen & Pelvis · Female
A condition where the womb drops out of its normal place due to weak muscles.
If it's due to cancer, this waiting period doesn't apply.
“Surgery of Genito-urinary system unless necessitated by malignancy”
“Hysterectomy for menorrhagia or Fibromyoma or prolapse of uterus unless necessitated by malignancy”
Section 4.1(a)(ii) · pages 34–36
We read all 43 exclusion clauses in this policy. 22 clauses change what you’d actually claim.
No waiting period reaches these - the plan does not cover them at all.
Written as exclusions, but the policy states a way in. The condition is the whole point.
Every discount printed in this policy’s own documents - what it’s worth, who qualifies, and what it asks in return.
Nothing is given up in return - you either meet the condition or you don't.

About the provider
Care Supreme beside each of the other plans on the shelf: every clause that differs, read from the policy wording.
Sources
Everything on this page is read from the insurer’s own filings. It is an educational summary - not advice, not a recommendation to buy, and we sell nothing.
Plan facts last updated 17 Aug 2026.
IRDAI UIN: CHIHLIP27061V032627
For employees - and their dependents - of Care Health Insurance or its promoters.
7.5% off the 2nd-year premium on a 2-year term paid in advance; an additional 10% off the 3rd-year premium on a 3-year term.
5% with 2–3 members, 10% with 4 or more - on the same policy on individual Sum Insured basis, applied to each member other than the eldest.
When you buy or renew through the insurer's direct channel.
Where no intermediary commission is payable on issue or renewal.
When an insured person already holds a policy with the company and buys this one in addition.
2.5% for renewing within 30 days before the due date; 5% for renewing 31 or more days early.
If you're covered under a corporate group medical cover arrangement.
For Non-Resident Indian policyholders - an NRI-specific discount is uncommon in the Indian retail market.
Earned through the policy year by meeting the plan’s own health and activity targets - not given at purchase.
The premium comes down, but the policy asks for something back.
Opt an aggregate deductible of ₹10,000 up to ₹10 lakh; the premium drops per tier, but the rates sit in the premium annexure, not the policy documents.
Each policy year you pay claims up to your chosen deductible yourself before the policy pays.
Opt a per-claim co-payment of 5% to 50%; the premium drops per tier, but the rates sit in the premium annexure.
You pay your chosen share of every single claim yourself.
A premium reduction for accepting a panel of around 40 named hospitals.
A 20% co-payment on every claim at a hospital outside that panel - with no emergency exception stated.
A premium reduction for agreeing to consult an empanelled medical practitioner before hospitalisation.
Go to hospital directly without that consult and a 10% co-payment applies - except in an emergency.
A premium reduction for accepting a room cap.
Your room cover narrows to a single private AC room or twin sharing; intensive care stays uncapped.
Not discounts, but printed with them because they move the premium too.
Premium depends on your city - seven zones from Delhi NCR (Zone 1) to Rest of India (Zone 7); the differences sit in the rate annexure, not the policy documents.
Care Health Insurance is a standalone health insurer (IRDAI Reg. No. 148) headquartered in Gurugram that began operations in 2012. It launched as Religare Health Insurance and rebranded to Care Health in 2020 after an ownership change within the Religare group. It is one of India's larger standalone health insurers, offering retail and group health cover including its flagship Care Supreme plan.
96.74%
of claims settled, counted by number of claims
58.32%
share of premium paid back out as claims
1.68
capital cushion held - IRDAI floor is 1.5
24,800+
where claims can be settled without you paying first
4.2
grievances logged for every thousand claims
Every insurer sits inside the same regulated safety net. You are never left with only the insurer's answer.
Raise it with Care Health
Escalate to IRDAI - Bima Bharosa
Insurance Ombudsman