Surgery or Surgical Procedure
What it means, and what it does to a claim.
A manual or operative procedure to treat illness or injury, correct a defect, diagnose disease or relieve suffering. It has to be performed in a hospital or day-care centre by a registered practitioner.
Why it matters
The place and the practitioner are part of the definition, not incidental to it. A procedure done in a consulting room rather than a qualifying hospital or day-care centre can fall outside cover even though the surgery itself was necessary and competently done.
The legal definition
Surgery or Surgical Procedure means manual and / or operative procedure (s) required for treatment of an illness or injury, correction of deformities and defects, diagnosis and cure of diseases, relief from suffering and prolongation of life, performed in a hospital or day care centre by a medical practitioner.
Quoted verbatim from an IRDAI-filed policy wording. Definitions are standardised across insurers, but the limits attached to them are not — always read your own policy schedule.
Related terms
- Day Care Centre — A registered medical facility set up for day-care treatment, with qualified staff and a supervising medical practitioner, but without in-patient beds.
- Day Care Treatment — A procedure needing hospital or day-care facilities but taking less than 24 hours.
- Hospital — An institution registered with the local authorities as a hospital.
- Medical Practitioner — Someone holding a valid registration with a State or national Medical Council, whether allopathic, Indian medicine or homeopathy.
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