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What is Room Rent in health insurance?
Sets the maximum amount your insurer pays per day for your hospital room. If you stay in a room that costs more than this limit, your insurer may also reduce what they pay on your other hospital bills - like doctor fees and surgery charges - not just the room cost. Plans with no room rent cap give you the most protection.
Also called: room rent limit · room rent capping · room category eligibility
Niva Bupa
ReAssure 3.0 – Black
StandardCommonly Missed
Black has no room capping at all; the other three stop at a category. If you take a room above your category, a flat co-pay from Annexure V applies to the entire claim, not just the room charge. Your plan fixes the room you are eligible for.
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Watch out
On Classic plan, claiming any room category above General Ward costs you 20% to 50% of the whole admissible claim. On a Rs 4,00,000 hospital stay at the 40% band, you pay Rs 1,60,000 from your own pocket.
Star Health
Super Star
StrongCommonly Missed
Your hospital room is covered at Any Room, with no daily rupee cap and no room category ceiling, up to your Sum Insured. There is an option of Room Rent Modification which restrict it to Single Private AC Room, Shared Room or General Ward, and you can opt out of it only during the first renewal.
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If you buy Room Rent Modification and then take a room above the category you chose, the insurer pays your professional fees, operation theatre charges and procedure charges only in proportion to the room rent it allows. You pay the rest from your own pocket.
HDFC ERGO
Optima Restore
StrongCommonly Missed
There is no room rent cap. Hospital room and boarding sit inside the in-patient benefit and are paid up to your Sum Insured, with no room category and no daily rupee ceiling. Because there is no cap, the wording carries no proportionate deduction clause, so picking a costlier room does not cut what is paid on the rest of your bill.
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The stay has to be a hospital admission of at least 24 hours to count as hospitalisation, unless it is a day care procedure. Room rent is defined here to include associated medical expenses, so those charges are paid from the same Sum Insured.
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