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Health Insurance Claim Letter

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A calendar date — the day, the month and the year. Dates in a document like this are read against one another, so a date typed here can change what another date is allowed to be.

For example: 20 November 2026

For example: Ludhiana

To whom at the insurer is it addressed?Needed

For example: Star Health and Allied Insurance Company Limited

What is the address of its health claims office?Needed

For example: Rajinder Kaur Bajwa

What is your postal address?Needed

An email address somebody actually reads. Notices under a document like this can be sent to it, so a working one matters more than a tidy one.

For example: rajinder.bajwa@example.com

A number somebody can be reached on. Ten digits is the usual Indian form, and a country code in front of it is fine if you want it there.

For example: +91 98765 41007

For example: P/141234/01/2026/003318

What kind of policy is it?Needed

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For example: 5 May 2026

A calendar date — the day, the month and the year. Dates in a document like this are read against one another, so a date typed here can change what another date is allowed to be.

For example: 4 May 2027

For example: Harpreet Singh Bajwa

For example: husband

For example: M-80177321

For example: Medi Assist TPA

Is this the first year of the policy?Needed

For example: Fortis Hospital, Phase 8

For example: Mohali

A calendar date — the day, the month and the year. Dates in a document like this are read against one another, so a date typed here can change what another date is allowed to be.

For example: 2 October 2026

A calendar date — the day, the month and the year. Dates in a document like this are read against one another, so a date typed here can change what another date is allowed to be.

For example: 7 October 2026

For example: acute appendicitis

For example: an appendicectomy by keyhole surgery under general anaesthesia

Was the admission planned?Needed
Was the illness known before the policy began?Needed

Say, if you know, whether the policy has a waiting period for this illness and where it stands. Leave blank if none.

A long answer. Several lines are fine, and a break you make between paragraphs is the break the document keeps.

For example: The policy is in its second year and the illness is not one of the listed conditions.

What kind of claim is it?Needed

An amount in rupees. Commas and a ₹ sign are both fine — write it the way you would write it anywhere else, and the document is given the tidy form of it.

For example: 187400

An amount in rupees. Commas and a ₹ sign are both fine — write it the way you would write it anywhere else, and the document is given the tidy form of it.

For example: 187400

For example: PA-2026-88412

Does the patient have any other health cover?Needed

For example: Rajinder Kaur Bajwa

For example: HDFC Bank, Sector 40, Chandigarh

For example: 3391

Say why, if the claim is late. Leave blank if there is no delay.

A long answer. Several lines are fine, and a break you make between paragraphs is the break the document keeps.

For example: The patient was recovering and the final bill was issued on 20 October.

Anything the other questions did not cover. Leave blank if none.

A long answer. Several lines are fine, and a break you make between paragraphs is the break the document keeps.

For example: Please send me the claim decision by email.

Number each paper: the claim form, policy schedule, bills, discharge summary, reports, identity proof and cancelled cheque.

A long answer. Several lines are fine, and a break you make between paragraphs is the break the document keeps.

For example: 1. Claim form. 2. Policy schedule and health card. 3. Hospital bills and receipts. 4. Discharge summary. 5. Prescriptions and reports. 6. Identity proof. 7. Cancelled cheque.

For example: Kuldip Singh Sandhu

An email address somebody actually reads. Notices under a document like this can be sent to it, so a working one matters more than a tidy one.

For example: kuldip.sandhu@example.com

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HEALTH INSURANCE CLAIM LETTER

Claim for the cost of hospital treatment under a health insurance policy

Date: __________, at __________

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To: The __________, Health Claims Department, __________, __________

From: __________, __________ (email __________, telephone __________)

Subject: Claim under policy no. __________ for the treatment of __________

Sir or Madam,

  1. 1. The policy. I write about policy no. __________ issued by you, __________, valid from __________ to __________. The insured person is __________, my __________, member id __________. __________
  1. 2. The treatment. __________ was admitted to __________, __________, on __________ and discharged on __________. The illness or injury was __________. The treatment was __________. __________
  1. 3. How the illness began. __________
  1. 4. The claim. __________ The amount I claim is __________, made up as shown in the enclosed bills.
  1. 5. Other cover. __________
  1. 6. What I ask you to do. Please do all of the following.

(a) Register this claim from today and give me the claim number in writing.

(b) Tell me in one list, at one time, any paper you still need, and the name and number of the officer who is handling the claim.

(c) Decide the claim within the period the rules on policyholders' interests allow, and tell me the date by which you will do so.

(d) If you deduct anything from a bill, give me each deduction and its reason in writing, with the clause of the policy that you rely on.

(e) Pay the amount due by transfer to the account described in paragraph 7.

  1. 7. Where to pay. Please pay the amount to the account held by __________ with __________, account ending __________. I will give the full account number on your own form and not in this letter.
  1. 9. What I promise. What I have written is true to the best of my knowledge, and I have not kept back any fact about the illness or the policy that you would reasonably want to know. I give you leave to ask the hospital and the treating doctor for the records of this treatment, and I will tell you at once if I learn of any further fact.
  1. 10. If the claim is not settled. If you reject the claim, pay only part of it or do not reply, I will appeal to your grievance redressal officer and, if that fails, complain to the Insurance Ombudsman for the area. I am also free to bring a consumer complaint before the District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission.

Please acknowledge this letter and give me a date-stamped receipt.

ENCLOSURES

__________

LEGAL BASIS

Punjab: A health insurance policy is a contract of insurance, and the insurer must pay a claim that falls within the policy and is not excluded by it; whether a particular illness or period is covered is a question of what the policy says. The insurer decides a claim through its claims office or its third-party administrator and, if the policyholder objects, through its grievance redressal officer, within the periods the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority's rules on policyholders' interests set, which the letter names without quoting a figure. A policyholder who is not satisfied can complain to the Insurance Ombudsman under the Insurance Ombudsman Rules, 2017, or file a consumer complaint before the District Commission under section 35 of the Consumer Protection Act, 2019, a remedy in addition to other laws under section 100. A dispute that needs a civil court goes to the civil court, with an appeal to the District Judge or the Punjab and Haryana High Court.

Chandigarh: The same law applies to a policyholder in the Union Territory: the contract of insurance, the insurer's grievance redressal officer, the Insurance Ombudsman under the Insurance Ombudsman Rules, 2017, and a consumer complaint before the District Commission serving the Union Territory under section 35 of the Consumer Protection Act, 2019. A dispute for a civil court goes to the civil court at Chandigarh, with an appeal to the District Judge, Chandigarh, or the Punjab and Haryana High Court.

PERSONAL DATA NOTICE

This notice is given under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.

The purpose of collecting the personal data in this letter is to identify the policyholder and the patient, record the illness, treatment and bills, and let the insurer decide the claim.

The record will be held by __________ and may be shared with The insurer and its claims, surveyor and grievance officers, the Insurance Ombudsman, any Consumer Commission or court that hears the matter, and the claimant's advocate, the third-party administrator, and the treating hospital and doctor.

If the matter does not proceed, the personal data will be retained for 90 days and then erased. If the matter proceeds, the record will be retained for the transaction or authority matter plus 12 months, except where a statute requires a longer named retention period.

A person named in this document may request correction or erasure where the purpose has ended, withdraw consent for future consent-based processing, or raise a grievance by writing to __________. The record-holder should acknowledge and reply within 30 days.

Data minimisation: this document does not collect a full Aadhaar number, an Aadhaar-card copy, a password or bank credentials.

Personal-data instruction: __________.

SIGNATURE

 
 
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Claimant: __________
Place: ____________________
Date: ____________________

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