It’s a shame that insurance companies are hesitant to cover India’s own Ayurveda treatments.
“With medical expenses growing day-by-day, health insurance has become a necessity. But as far as Ayurveda is concerned the reimbursement of medical bills by insurance companies is not at all encouraging,” said Dr Krishna Kumar, Managing Director of the Coimbatore Ayurveda Trust, one of the leading Ayurvedic treatment centres in the country.
Many insurance companies do not cover Ayurveda and other non-allopathic streams of treatment and a few which provide it keep an upper limit for the amount to be reimbursed.[Health Insurance Co reluctant to support Ayurveda]