Insurance firms: We can t take on Covid-19 coverage alone
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Modified23 Jan 2021, 5:34 am
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General Insurance Association of Malaysia (Piam) chairperson Antony Lee has urged all sectors including private hospitals to “step up” their efforts against the Covid-19 pandemic.
This comes as the Health Ministry and the private sector discuss how to integrate private hospitals to treat Covid-19 patients.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 23): Insurance and Takaful providers have broadened the eligibility criteria of the Covid-19 Test Fund (CTF) to include all asymptomatic individual and group medical health insurance policy and takaful certificate holders (MHIT) in the country.
In a joint statement, the Life Insurance Association of Malaysia (LIAM), Malaysian Takaful Association (MTA) and General Insurance Association of Malaysia (PIAM) said the move was done in view of the spike in Covid-19 cases in the country.
They said all individual and group policy and certificate holders who are asymptomatic are now eligible to claim from the CTF for Covid-19 tests done at any authorised labs or medical facilities registered with the Ministry of Health (MoH).