In a move to bring all useful information on health insurance policies in a single registry, insurance regulator Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) is planning around one lakh hospitals to bring under the common network data base where each and every information such as treatment facility, cost of treatment and cost of claims among others would be easily available for customers.
On Monday, IRDA-promoted Insurance Information Bureau (IIB) launched a portal registry of hospitals in network of insurers (ROHINI) which would be a credible source of information on hospitals that would help enhancing efficiency in the functions of all those involved in the health insurance space.
“At present, 35,000 hospitals are under the network of IIB and IRDA has plans to take it to one lakh hospitals soon. Also, the regulator plans to make it mandatory for every new hospital to come up to join the network the near future,” IRDA Chairman TS Vijayan told The Pioneer.
“As the health insurance industry in India is close to Rs20,000 crore, including the Government schemes, the move will help insurance companies, hospitals and all the insured under various health insurance schemes to get all relevant data at one place,” he said.
Every hospital across the country connected with insurance firms for cashless payment on registration has been given a unique identification number under the initiative by IRDA so as to make IIB able to monitor the patterns of health insurance claims from all those hospitals.
Therefore, the registry of hospitals under ROHINI is the noble idea in keeping a tab on health insurance claims from various hospitals under the network to study the pattern of claims, cost of claims and cost of treatment.