Dubai: Insurers selling the Dh550 a year Dubai Health Authority mandated ‘basic’ health cover plan in Dubai have been told not to pad up these policies with additional benefits. And if they still want to offer ‘enhanced cover’, they can only sell these policies at a minimum premium of Dh750 a year.
“The DHA (Dubai Health Authority) mandated that the minimum premium on any DHA-approved enhanced cover should not be less that Dh750 – and that’s excluding ‘Basmah’ and VAT,” said M. Rajendran, Managing Director at Al Futtaim Willis, the insurance brokerage and consultancy. (The ‘Basmah’ is an additional sum insurers selling approved basic insurance plans set aside if any of the insured need cancer treatment. The compulsory Basmah contributions are made on each such policy sold.)