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Care Joy vs ICICI Lombard Health Booster
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Maternity and newborn cover with a 9-month maternity waiting period
What Makes It Special:
Care Joy is a hospitalisation plan with built-in maternity and newborn cover. The Joy Today variant is the faster-access option, with a 9-month waiting period for maternity claims. The other variant, Joy Tomorrow, has a 24-month wait. Maternity benefits are capped at ₹35,000 on a ₹3 lakh sum insured and ₹50,000...
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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Health Booster
Buy a super top-up that pays hospital bills above a deductible of ₹3 lakh, ₹4 lakh or ₹5 lakh, with a sum insured from ₹5 lakh to ₹50 lakh, inpatient AYUSH cover and a once-a-year reset for an unrelated illness.
What Makes It Special:
Health Booster is a deductible-based health insurance product designed to provide additional financial protection when eligible hospitalisation expenses exceed the selected deductible. Its value depends on the relationship between the deductible, the available sum insured and the coverage provided by the policyholder's primary health insurance. Waiting periods, eligible expenses, exclusions...
Best For:
People who are comfortable checking waiting periods, exclusions and deductible conditions before purchasing additional cover.
Buyers comparing a top-up plan with a super top-up plan who want to understand how the deductible is applied to claims.
Families looking to increase their overall potential health insurance protection without relying entirely on a single base policy.
Buyers who can manage expenses up to the deductible and want cover for eligible expenses above that amount.
People who already have health insurance and want additional protection against large medical bills.
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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.
Before buying, compare the premium, deductible, sum insured and claim conditions with the cost of increasing your existing base policy.
If you expect to claim for a specific treatment, verify that the treatment is covered and that its waiting period and exclusions are satisfied.
If you have a pre-existing disease, check that it has been disclosed and accepted and understand the applicable waiting period before relying on the cover.
If you may have several hospitalisation claims in one year, confirm whether the deductible applies per claim or on an aggregate basis under your specific policy version.
If you already have a base health policy, compare its sum insured with the Health Booster deductible to identify any potential coverage gap.
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Detailed Features Comparison
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Joy Health Insurance Plan VS VS |
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| Room Rent |
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Joy Covers a Single Private Room with AC. A higher room category means room, boarding, nursing, OT and doctor/surgeon fees are reduced in proportion to the difference in room rent. |
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| ICU Charges |
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Joy ICU charges (ICU bed, monitoring devices, critical care nursing and intensivist charges) are payable as part of in-patient hospitalisation up to the sum insured. There is no separate ICU sublimit. |
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Health Booster Information Unavailable |
| Advanced Treatments |
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Joy Information Unavailable |
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| Co-payment |
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Joy 20% of each admissible claim applies if the insured's entry age (eldest member for a floater) is 60 years or above. No co-payment applies for entry ages below 60. |
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Health Booster This does not apply if the insured is 60 years of age or below. However, this condition will not be applicable if you were aged 45 years or below at the time of buying this policy for the first time and have renewed it continuously after that. |
| Disease-wise sublimits |
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Joy No disease-specific caps apply to general hospitalisation, which is payable up to the sum insured. Fixed limits apply to maternity (₹35,000/₹50,000), newborn baby (₹30,000/₹50,000) and ambulance (₹1,000 per claim). |
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Health Booster No comprehensive disease-wise sublimit list has been confirmed for the referenced policy wording. Check the policy schedule and applicable benefit conditions. |
| Cashless Healthcare Providers |
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Joy Cashless treatment is available at 11,400+ Care network hospitals across India. Pre-authorisation is required, and the network list can change, so check the hospital list before admission. |
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Health Booster 10,896 cashless healthcare |
| Restoration Benefit |
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Joy Not available. Once the sum insured is used, it is not restored within the same policy year. The optional No Claim Bonanza is a bonus for claim-free years, not a restoration benefit. |
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Health Booster Information Unavailable |
| Cumulative Bonus |
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Joy Optional "No Claim Bonanza", available for an additional premium. After three consecutive claim-free policy years, the sum insured increases by 100% of the expiring sum insured. The accrued bonus cannot exceed 100% of the sum insured in the renewed policy. If a claim is made, the accrued bonus is not carried to the next renewal, but the base sum insured is never reduced. The bonus is lost if the policy is not renewed within the grace period. |
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Health Booster Additional Sum Insured increases by 10% of the base sum insured for each claim-free policy year, up to 50%. A claim in a subsequent policy period reduces the accrued amount by 10% of the sum insured at renewal. |
| Daycare Treatment |
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Joy Covers a long list of procedures that need less than 24 hours of hospitalisation (for example cataract, dialysis, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, lithotripsy, tonsillectomy and arthroscopy). Cover is up to the sum insured and subject to waiting periods. |
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Health Booster 150 medical expenses incurred by you while undergoing Specified Day Care Treatment, which require less than 24 hours hospitalization are covered by the policy. |
| Consumable Cover |
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Joy Not covered. Non-medical items (for example gloves, masks, diapers, kits, belts, surcharges and similar items in the policy's non-payable list) are excluded. Some items, such as admission and registration charges, are treated as part of room or procedure charges and are not paid separately. |
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Health Booster Not verified as a standard benefit for this policy version. |
| AYUSH Treatment |
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Joy Not offered as a standard benefit. Treatment under Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy, and other non-allopathic treatment, is excluded. |
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Health Booster Covered by the policy.. |
| Initial Waiting Period |
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Joy 30 days |
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Health Booster Subject to policy wording and applicable exceptions. Confirm the applicable schedule before publishing a definitive duration. |
| Specific Waiting Period |
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Joy 24 months of continuous coverage for listed conditions and procedures. These include arthritis and spinal disorders, joint replacement, benign ENT disorders, benign prostatic hypertrophy, cataract, piles/fissure/fistula, hernia and hydrocele, hysterectomy for fibroids, kidney or gall bladder stones, and varicose veins. Accident-related claims are exempt. Prior continuous coverage can reduce the waiting period. If a listed condition is also pre-existing, the longer waiting period applies. |
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Health Booster 2 years for specified diseases and procedures, subject to policy terms. |
| PED Waiting Period |
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Joy 36 months of continuous coverage from the first policy with Care. Pre-existing conditions must be declared at proposal. If the sum insured is increased, the waiting period applies afresh to the increased amount. Continuous prior coverage with another insurer can reduce the waiting period on porting. |
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Health Booster 2 years for pre-existing diseases declared and accepted by the insurer. |
| Modern Treatment |
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Joy Covers 12 listed advanced treatments within the sum insured: uterine artery embolization and HIFU, balloon sinuplasty, deep brain stimulation, oral chemotherapy, monoclonal antibody immunotherapy (injection), intravitreal injections, robotic surgeries, stereotactic radio surgeries, bronchial thermoplasty, laser prostate vaporisation (green laser or holmium laser), intra-operative neuro monitoring (IONM), and hematopoietic stem cell therapy for bone marrow transplant in blood disorders. Advanced methods outside this list are not covered. |
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Health Booster Covered subject to the sum insured, deductible and policy terms. |
| Annual Health Checkup |
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Joy Not available as a benefit. Depending on age and sum insured, Care may ask for pre-policy medical tests at its own cost. If the proposal is declined or the policy is cancelled in the free-look period, the test cost is deducted from the refund. |
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Health Booster Not confirmed for the policy wording referenced here. |
| Pre-Hospitalisation |
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Joy 30 days before admission. Expenses must relate to the same illness or injury and the hospitalisation claim must be admissible. |
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Health Booster Eligible medical expenses are covered for up to 60 days before hospitalisation, subject to policy terms. |
| Post-Hospitalisation |
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Joy 60 days after discharge. Expenses must relate to the same illness or injury and the main hospitalisation claim must be admissible. |
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Health Booster Eligible medical expenses are covered for up to 90 days after hospitalisation, subject to policy terms. |
| Outpatient Department Cover (OPD Expense) |
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Joy Not covered. Routine consultations, tests and pharmacy bills without hospital admission are not payable. Pre- and post-natal expenses are covered only within the maternity limit and as part of the delivery hospitalisation claim. |
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Health Booster Routine outpatient consultations and treatment are not listed as a standard base-cover benefit. |
| Deductible Option |
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Joy No deductible applies. This is a base indemnity plan, not a top-up. |
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Health Booster A deductible applies before eligible hospitalisation claims become payable. The selected amount and its application are specified in the policy schedule. Under the Super Top-up structure, the deductible applies to aggregate hospitalisation expenses during the policy year. |
| Coverage Options |
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Joy Sum insured of ₹3 lakh or ₹5 lakh, on an Individual or Family Floater basis. Policy term is 3 years. Entry age is 18 to 65 years for adults, 1 day to 24 years for children, and 1 day to 90 days for newborns. Lifelong renewability. Maternity cover is available only for insured women aged 45 or below. |
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Health Booster Available as a Super Top-up health insurance plan, with the selected sum insured, deductible and individual or floater configuration specified in the policy schedule. |
| Claim Settlement Ratio |
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Joy 96.74% for FY 2024-25 (insurer-level, based on IRDAI public disclosures). This reflects Care Health Insurance overall, not Care Joy specifically. |
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Health Booster FY 24-25: ~84% |
| Maternity Cover |
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Joy Covers delivery hospitalisation (normal and C-section) including pre-natal and post-natal expenses: up to ₹35,000 on a ₹3 lakh sum insured and up to ₹50,000 on a ₹5 lakh sum insured. Waiting period is 9 months of continuous coverage. Newborn baby cover applies if the maternity claim is admissible. Voluntary termination of pregnancy in the first 12 weeks and miscarriage (unless caused by an accident) are not covered. Ectopic pregnancy is covered under regular hospitalisation, not the maternity limit. |
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Health Booster Not listed as a standard benefit in the referenced policy wording. |
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