QUOTE(dragonlady @ Jan 27 2021, 01:12 AM)
What AIA is doing is merely a marketing gimmick. Inside your policy it will state hospitalisation benefits. For example if you go to government you get for example rm60/day allowance. Or if you go to private hosp you get rm200 allowance. Now they just turn it around and say you get covid coverage. It’s a pay and claim basis coverage and SUBJECT to “reasonable and customary charges”. So if your bill is rm40k for instance but what is considered reasonable and subject to customary charges is only rm2k for example. So the other rm38k come out from own pocket la.
Always know what your financial rights are. Have an awareness of the timebombs in your policy.
erm... you dont need to paint it so black. your example abit too "melampau".
insurance companies dont cover you less just because it's pay and claim basis. this is the mindset of the general public but no basis.
if someone has nothing to hide, insurance company dont cheat you. the purpose of RCC is just to avoid exorbitant charges. so you should question the hospital if they charge you RM200 for 10 biji panadol right? this is what insurance companies want to avoid.
and no, it's not gimmick even if it's pay and claim. the word reimbursement is written all over your insurance contract.
the earlier forms of medical insurance is probably without medical card and pay and claim basis or the more canggih word, reimbursement.