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Care Health Assure

A critical illness policy, NOT a health insurance plan. It pays a lump sum on diagnosis of a listed condition rather than reimbursing a hospital bill – so it does not replace a health policy, it sits beside one.

Read from Care Health Insurance Limited's own policy wording and prospectus. Last checked against those documents on . The wording you are issued is the contract.

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01The detail

Assure in one table

Claim settlement ratio
96%FY 2024–25
95% recommended
Complaints per 10,000
42.9policies
Under 10 recommended
InsurerCare Health Insurance Limited
Sum insuredUp to ₹10 lakh, ₹10 lakh to ₹50 lakh, and higher bands up to ₹3 crore depending on the option.
Entry age18 to 65 years.

Claim settlement and complaint figures are IRDAI-published and held centrally by NYVO, not taken from the insurer's marketing.

02Cover

What Assure covers

These are the terms that decide what you are actually paid when you claim. Room rent, co-pay and restoration do more to shape a settlement than the sum insured does, and they are read from Care Health's own policy wording.

FeatureThis planWhat good looks like
What kind of plan this isCritical illness – a lump sum on diagnosis, not a reimbursement of your bill.Read this first – it decides everything else
Sum insuredUp to ₹10 lakh, ₹10 lakh to ₹50 lakh, and higher bands up to ₹3 crore depending on the option.₹50 lakh or more for a metro family
Entry age18 to 65 years.Buy before a condition appears
What this plan does
03Waiting periods

Assure waiting periods: when each part of the cover starts

Waiting periods run from the day cover began, not from the day you fall ill, and they run in parallel rather than one after another.

Initial waiting period30 days from the start of the first policy, except for an accident
04Exclusions

Assure exclusions: what the plan will not pay for

Every policy carries exclusions, and they are the clauses people read for the first time at claim stage. These are the ones worth knowing before you buy.

Not coveredIndicative, not exhaustive. Your policy wording is the contract.
01Anything in the first 30 days of the first policy, other than an accident.
05The honest bit

Where Assure falls short

No plan is right for everyone, and a page that only lists strengths is not much use to you. These are the gaps we would raise on a call before recommending it.

Worth knowing before you buyNone of these are dealbreakers on their own. They are the trade-offs this plan asks you to accept.
01This is a critical illness policy, not health insurance. It pays a lump sum on diagnosis of a listed condition and does NOT reimburse hospital bills. It complements a health policy; it cannot replace one.
02Waiting periods restart on any increase in sum insured, to the extent of the increase.
03Care Health draws 42.9 complaints per 10,000 weigh that against the wording, because a policy is only as good as the claim behind it.
06FAQs

Assure questions, answered

Is this a substitute for a health insurance policy?

No. It pays a lump sum on diagnosis of a listed condition, not your hospital bill. It sits beside a health policy rather than replacing it.

What are the waiting periods?

Thirty days from the start of the first policy for anything other than an accident. The policy wording is the contract.

07Source documents

Read it from the insurer

We summarise. The policy wording is the contract, and it is the only document that settles a dispute. These links go to the insurer's own pages.

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08Read next

Understand the terms before you commit

A plan page tells you what this policy does. These explain why each term matters and what it costs you when it is missing.

09Same insurer

Other Care Health plans we have read

Care Health files these separately, and the terms differ between them. If you are choosing within the range, compare the waiting periods and the exclusions rather than the sum insured.

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