Robotic surgeries will now be included in your health insurance cover; details here

Robotic surgery is becoming a new norm these days. In renowned hospitals of India too, robotic surgeries are successfully performed by doctors who come from abroad. However, most insurance policies don't cover robotic surgeries.

But now with new experiments continuously happening in the medical field, Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDAI) has suggested the insurance companies to include robotic surgeries in their health insurance cover. If robotic surgeries come under the insurance cover then Indians will not require to go abroad for getting such surgeries done and they can easily avail it in any Indian hospitals.

Robotic surgery is an advanced form of minimally invasive surgery where patients experience less pain, less blood loss, a shorter hospital stay, and a quicker return to normal activity in comparison with people who undergo open surgery. However, patients don’t prefer to undergo robotic surgeries mainly because there no insurance cover for it, say doctors.

Source: DNA