ICICI Lombard General Insurance, Healthspring tie-up to offer healthcare products

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Ltd. has announced its partnership with Healthspring, to provide healthcare products to its corporate clients in the Group Insurance space.

 

As part of this partnership, ICICI Lombard and Healthspring have co-developed innovative offerings exclusively for ICICI Lombard’s Group Insurance clients.

 

These include:

• 24×7 emergency care for patients through Healthspring’s unique network
• Doctor’s visit at any of the Healthspring centre
• Best-in class personalised health check-up
• Access to convenient tele-health services

 

Through this initiative, ICICI Lombard and Healthspring have brought state-of-the-art emergency services to their corporate clients with an end-to-end solution. These services will ensure high-quality, reliable, and convenient care for routine and chronic illnesses, as well as 24×7 emergency cover for corporate employees and their families across Mumbai. Corporate customers can also avail doctor consultations (OPD), tele-health triage and doctor at home facility, supported by Healthspring’s network.

 

With this innovative offering, corporate firms can now look forward to significantly improved employee health outcomes, which in turn will lower medical expenses incurred on the employee base. In addition, companies can expect significantly higher levels of employee engagement and satisfaction, lower absenteeism, and a differentiated value proposition while recruiting and retaining employees.

 

Speaking at the launch Sanjay Datta, Chief – Underwriting and Claims, ICICI Lombard said, “At ICICI Lombard, we have been continuously taking steps to offer complete health insurance solutions to meet the varying needs of our corporate clients. Focusing on the wellness and preventive approach, this unique partnership will facilitate healthcare services as well as provide comprehensive health insurance to corporate customers. It is a breakthrough step in the evolution of the Indian healthcare delivery and insurance system”.

 

Dr. Sen, Chairman of Healthspring Community Medical Centres, and a thought-leader in the medical profession, adds: “Healthspring’s vision is to bring back family medicine in the best sense of the word: high-quality, dependable, ethical and patient-friendly medical care. Our support of patients in their routine illnesses as well as their dire emergencies is part of our vision. We are very excited to partner with a company of the calibre of ICICI Lombard, and view this as the way of the future.”

 

Pioneering the integrated model and transforming healthcare delivery in India, Healthspring brings world-class primary and chronic healthcare platforms within the reach of its corporate clients.

 

Healthspring has:

• 8 primary care centres, providing high-quality routine and chronic medical care, growing to ~200 in next 3 years
• City-wide emergency network and top-quality tele-health
• Retail solutions and memberships for preventive, pre-and-post operation, and chronic care
• Corporate solutions with some of the best-known companies

 

 

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