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Care Today vs ICICI Lombard Elevate
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Read moreWhat Makes It Special:
Care Joy Today is a comprehensive maternity and health insurance plan designed to support women through pregnancy and beyond. It covers delivery and related hospitalisation costs, pre- and post-natal care, and newborn expenses up to 90 days. With features like day-care treatments, ambulance cover, and cashless hospitalisation across 8,000+ hospitals,...
Best For:
Long-term peace of mind with 3-year policy term
Cashless treatment across 8,000+ hospitals
Comprehensive family protection during pregnancy
Maternity and Newborn health coverage
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What Makes It Special:
ICICI Lombard’s Elevate health insurance policy is designed to provide comprehensive protection and flexibility. It covers hospitalisation, day-care treatments, pre- and post-hospitalisation expenses (90 to 180 days), AYUSH treatments, ambulance services (road and air), and even worldwide cashless hospitalisation. The policy offers unlimited reset of sum insured, 100% annual increase...
Best For:
Comprehensive All-Round Protection
Global Health Insurance Coverage
Advanced Critical Illness Cover
Tech-Enabled Seamless Support
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Quick Decision Guide
You want cashless access to 8,000+ hospitals across India
You prefer short waiting period for maternity benefits (9 months)
You want maternity and newborn cover under one plan
You’re planning for pregnancy or expanding your family soon.
You want global and all-round health coverage
You need CIBIL discount on good credit score
You need coverage on conditions like Asthma, BP, Cholesterol, Diabetes from Day 1
You need a good customer app which has a simplified claims experience
You need unlimited sum insured restoration benefits and high cumulative bonus
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Detailed Features Comparison
Compare the key features of different health insurance plans
Today Health Insurance Plan VS VS |
![]() Elevate Health Insurance Plan |
| Room Rent |
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Today Single Private AC room covered |
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Elevate Single private AC room is included as part of base cover. However, you can opt for Room Modifier Add-on to upgrade or downgrade the room category (Option to modify room category) |
| ICU Charges |
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Today No restriction on ICU room rent |
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Elevate No restriction on ICU room rent |
| Disease-wise sublimits |
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Today Not Specifically mentioned |
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Elevate No |
| Co-payment |
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Today 20% for above 61 years unless waived by extra premium |
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Elevate Available as an option |
| Restoration Benefit |
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Today Not Available |
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Elevate Yes, your sum insured restores to 100% each time you make a claim in a policy year, for both related and unrelated illnesses (per claim in a policy year for related/unrelated illnesses) |
| Cashless Healthcare Providers |
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Today 8000+ Healthcare Providers |
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Elevate 10300+ Healthcare Providers |
| Cumulative Bonus |
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Today Not Available in the base plan but you can add a rider to avail |
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Elevate Your sum insured increases by 20% every year maximum upto 100%. However, you can pay an additional premium to increase sum insured up to 100%, every year. (Option to boost coverage by 1x annually) |
| Daycare Treatment |
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Today Covers medical expenses for treatments not requiring 24-hour hospitalization, up to your annual sum insured |
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Elevate Covers medical expenses for treatments not requiring 24-hour hospitalization, up to annual sum insured |
| Consumable Cover |
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Today Included within hospitalisation expenses. |
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Elevate No. However, available as an add-on |
| AYUSH Treatment |
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Today Covers AYUSH treatment expenses up to your annual sum insured during the policy period |
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Elevate Covers AYUSH treatment expenses up to your annual sum insured during the policy period |
| Initial Waiting Period |
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Today 30 days |
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Elevate 30 days |
| Specific Waiting Period |
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Today 2 years |
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Elevate 2 years |
| PED Waiting Period |
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Today 3 years |
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Elevate 3 years |
| Modern Treatment |
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Today Covered |
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Elevate Hospital expenses for listed advanced treatments are covered up to your full sum insured during the policy period |
| Annual Health Checkup |
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Today Not Stated |
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Elevate Health checkup is not included as part of base cover. However, available as an add-on |
| Pre-Hospitalisation |
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Today You get cover for medical tests and doctor visits up to 30 days before hospitalisation, if your main claim is approved |
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Elevate You get cover for medical tests and doctor visits up to 90 days before hospitalisation, if your main claim is approved |
| Post-Hospitalisation |
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Today You get cover for medical bills up to 60 days after discharge, including physiotherapy if your doctor prescribes it |
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Elevate You get cover for medical bills up to 180 days after discharge, including physiotherapy if your doctor prescribes it. |
| Outpatient Department Cover (OPD Expense) |
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Today OPD expense is not included. |
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Elevate OPD expense is not included as part of base cover. However, available as an add-on |
| Deductible Option |
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Today Not Available |
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Elevate Not available |
| Coverage Options |
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Today 8000+ Healthcare Providers |
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Elevate Available sum insured options: ₹5L, ₹7.5L, ₹10L, ₹15L, ₹20L, ₹25L, ₹50L, ₹1 Cr, ₹3 Cr and unlimited sum insured |
| Claim Settlement Ratio |
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Today Available coverage options: |
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Elevate 88.50% |
| Maternity Cover |
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Today Available including pre-natal and post-natal expenses, up to ₹35,000 or ₹50,000 based on sum insured; maternity cover available up to age 45. |
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Elevate No. However, available as an add-on. |
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