Claiming for Health Insurance Plan- Get Your Documents Ready

Sept. 26, 2012 - PRLog -- Some health insurance policies promise to settle the hospital bills directly while undergoing treatment instead of providing facility of cashless claim. If you have cashless insurance coverage but have got treatment in a hospital not included in the list or if it is turn to cashless claim by third party administration then you must have proper documents of getting treatment. In these cases, you need to pay the upfront charges and later you can claim to get reimbursement from the insurance provider.

You should have reimbursement form and other related documents to complete the process successfully. You need to submit the dully filled reimbursement form to the health insurance company in get the claimed amount. You can get this form from the insurer. You should also attach related document with the form in support of your claim. That may include the hospital bills, receipts, doctor’s note for tests and investigations, surgeon’s bill, operating details and receipts.

Claim process will start only after submitting reimbursement form. It will generally take 2-3 weeks to verify the claim, finding your eligibility and completely the formality included. At the end, you will get reimbursement cheque.

There are some important things that you must remember while making such claims:
•   Insurance company may need information about your admission in hospital within the required period.
•   Insurance provide may specify the period of submitting reimbursement from within the day of discharge from the hospital.
•   In some cases, company may deny to provide claim amount fully or partially

These are some important things that you must know while making claim against your private health insurance coverage(http://www.privatehealthinsurance247.co.uk/). You must care these things while claiming. Remember that whether you get insurance coverage or not and how much you will get will completely depend upon the documents and receipts submitted with reimbursement form.