Emergency admission, pre-existing disease: what the insurer can exclude
A sudden admission — a heart attack, a fall, a severe infection — and the patient also has diabetes or high blood pressure on record. Here is how the exclusion and the emergency are kept apart, what the rules require when an insurer cuts the bill, and what to get from the hospital before you leave.
Reviewed by the BimaHaq Insurance Grievance Desk — BimaHaq's in-house insurance-grievance team — specialists in IRDAI grievance redressal, the Insurance Ombudsman process, and policyholder rights in India. · Last reviewed 2026-10-26
Short answer: not automatically. The standard pre-existing-disease exclusion, IRDAI code Excl01, excludes expenses related to the “treatment of a pre-existing Disease (PED) and its direct complications” — not every illness a person with a pre-existing disease gets. None of IRDAI’s 2024 health rules says how to split one emergency admission between an excluded condition and a covered one. What the rules do require: no health claim may be repudiated without the approval of the insurer’s Product Management Committee or its Claims Review Committee, and if any part of the claim is disallowed, the insurer must give you full details with reference to the specific terms of your policy. In one case, on an overseas travel mediclaim policy where the diabetes had been disclosed, the Supreme Court held that the treatment of the policyholder’s heart attack could not be termed a “direct offshoot” of the diabetes, noting that diabetes is a risk factor for heart disease but not every diabetic will have one. Your case is made on the hospital record.
What counts as a pre-existing disease today?
Under the IRDAI (Insurance Products) Regulations, 2024, a pre-existing disease is any condition, ailment, injury or disease that a physician diagnosed not more than 36 months before your policy started, or for which a physician recommended or gave medical advice or treatment in those 36 months. This definition does not apply to overseas travel policies.
If you disclosed the condition when you applied, its waiting period can be at most 36 months of continuous cover. Your insurer can set a shorter one.
After 60 continuous months of cover, counting time carried over when you port or migrate a policy, no policy or claim can be contested for non-disclosure or misrepresentation, except on grounds of established fraud. If you raised your sum insured, the 60 months run afresh for the increase. The moratorium does not remove permanent exclusions written into the policy.
Check your own schedule. These limits apply from 1 April 2024. Contracts made before that date are not invalidated by the 2024 Regulations, products that did not comply had to be modified by 30 September 2024, and the insurer “may” extend the new benefits to existing policyholders. The waiting period printed in your policy is the figure to check. More on this in our guide to claims rejected for a waiting period.
The IRDAI (Health Insurance) Regulations, 2016 were repealed from 1 April 2024. Health product rules now sit in Schedule III of the 2024 Products Regulations and in IRDAI’s Master Circular on Health Insurance Business of 29 May 2024.
What does the pre-existing-disease exclusion actually exclude?
In 2019 IRDAI standardised the pre-existing-disease exclusion, gave it the code Excl01, and required insurers using it to copy the words exactly. Those guidelines have since been superseded, but the wording lives on in policies. A current New India Assurance Arogya Sanjeevani wording, for example, reads:
“Expenses related to the treatment of a pre-existing Disease (PED) and its direct complications shall be excluded until the expiry of 36 months of continuous coverage after the date of inception of the first policy with us.”Arogya Sanjeevani Policy, UIN NIAHLIP25044V022425, cl. 6.1(a) (Code Excl01)
Read the words closely. Two things are excluded: the treatment of the pre-existing disease itself, and the treatment of its direct complications. The clause is not written to reach every illness a person with that disease happens to get. Whether a particular emergency is a direct complication is a question about cause, and cause is decided on the medical evidence.
Other insurers’ wordings may differ. Read the exclusion in your own policy, and check the number of months it gives.
What do “emergency care” and “medically necessary treatment” mean in your policy?
The standard definitions now bind through your policy wording, not through a live IRDAI circular. The New India wording defines emergency care as “management for an illness or injury which results in symptoms which occur suddenly and unexpectedly, and requires immediate care by a medical practitioner to prevent death or serious long term impairment of the insured person's health.”
It defines medically necessary treatment as any treatment, tests, medication, or stay in hospital or part of a stay in hospital that is required for the medical management of the illness or injury, does not exceed the level of care necessary, has been prescribed by a medical practitioner, and conforms to the professional standards widely accepted in international medical practice or by the medical community in India.
Two practical points follow from the words. The emergency is described by its symptoms — sudden, unexpected, needing immediate care — so the record of how the patient arrived matters. And the definition covers a stay “or part of a stay”, so what each part of the admission was for is worth having in writing.
If the admission followed an accident: under the standard wording, the initial 30-day waiting period and the specific-disease waiting periods do not apply to claims arising from an accident, and IRDAI’s prescribed Customer Information Sheet says the same. That carve-out is for those two waiting periods. The Excl01 wording quoted above has no such carve-out.
One admission, two conditions: is there a rule for splitting the bill?
Not in IRDAI’s 2024 health rules. The 2024 Products Regulations, the Master Circular on Health Insurance Business and the Master Circular on Protection of Policyholders’ Interests contain no rule on how to split one admission between an excluded pre-existing disease and a covered emergency, and none of them sets a percentage. Anyone quoting you a fixed split is not quoting one of these rules. Check whether your own policy sets a co-pay or sub-limit for pre-existing conditions.
What the rules do require:
- 1.No health claim may be repudiated without the approval of the insurer’s Product Management Committee or its three-member Claims Review Committee (Health Master Circular, para 17(a)).
- 2.If any part of the claim is disallowed, you must be told why, with reference to the specific policy terms: “In case, the claim is repudiated or disallowed partially, details shall be conveyed to the claimant along with full details giving reference to the specific terms and conditions of the policy document.” (para 17(b)).
- 3.Your policy must clearly state its sub-limits, any proportionate deductions and package rates, each with a cross-reference to the policy section, any co-pay limits, its pre-existing-disease waiting period if it has one, and its exclusions (Master Circular on Protection of Policyholders’ Interests, Schedule para 3.1).
- 4.A reimbursement claim must be settled within 15 days of submission. If it is late, interest at the bank rate plus 2% runs from the date the insurer received intimation of the claim until payment, and the insurer must pay it on its own.
If the bill is cut, that gives you three questions to put in writing: which clause of my policy did you apply; to which items of the bill; and why is each item treatment of the pre-existing disease or of its direct complications, rather than of the emergency? Our guide to a claim paid only in part takes that further.
What has the Supreme Court said?
Supreme Court judgments only, each with the facts that limit it. Follow the link and read it yourself.
Manmohan Nanda v. United India Assurance Co. Ltd.
Supreme Court of India, Civil Appeal No. 8386/2015, judgment of 6 December 2021
- Diabetes is a risk factor for heart disease, but “it is not a hard and fast rule that every person having diabetes mellitus-II would necessarily suffer from a cardiac disease” (para 64).
- The treatment of his heart attack in the USA “could not have been termed as a direct offshoot of hyperlipidaemia and diabetes mellitus so as to be labelled as a pre-existing disease” (para 66). The Court accepted that his statins were only a precaution, and that they did not show he had hyperlipidaemia (para 64). The clause excluding complications of a pre-existing condition was read against the insurer (para 68).
- If the insured suffers a sudden sickness that is not expressly excluded, the insurer has a duty to indemnify the expenses (para 69).
- Once a policy has been issued after assessing a condition the insured disclosed, the insurer cannot repudiate by citing that condition as the cause of the claim (para 52(vi)).
Context: An overseas travel mediclaim policy. The diabetes had been disclosed and the insurer had medically examined him. Reading a clause against the insurer works only where the words are truly ambiguous: the same judgment, quoting Halsbury’s Laws of England through an earlier Supreme Court decision, records that the rule cannot be invoked to create a doubt where the words are clear (para 45(e)).
Texco Marketing Pvt. Ltd. v. TATA AIG General Insurance Co. Ltd.
Supreme Court of India, Civil Appeal No. 8249 of 2022, judgment of 9 November 2022
- When an insurer relies on an exclusion clause, “not only the onus but also the burden lies with the insurer” (paras 11–12).
- An exclusion is read down so that it does not defeat the main purpose of the contract.
Context: A fire policy, not a health policy. The Court stated the rule for exclusion clauses in insurance contracts.
Smt. Alka Shukla v. Life Insurance Corporation of India
Supreme Court of India, Civil Appeal No. 3413 of 2019, judgment of 24 April 2019
- Causation is decided on the medical evidence. Where the medical record showed the insured died of a heart attack and not of an accident, the accident claim failed (paras 11–12).
- The claimant has to bring the loss within the cover first.
Context: A life policy’s accident claim. It is a reminder that the medical record decides cause, for the insurer as well as for you.
Sulbha Prakash Motegaonkar v. Life Insurance Corporation of India
Supreme Court of India, Civil Appeal No. 8245 of 2015, order of 5 October 2015
- Repudiation was not justified where the concealed back ailment (lumbar spondylitis) had nothing to do with the death from a heart attack and was not life-threatening.
Context: A life policy, decided by a short order. A three-judge bench later distinguished it on its facts (Dalbir Kaur, below).
Branch Manager, Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance Co. Ltd. v. Dalbir Kaur
Supreme Court of India (three judges), Civil Appeal No. 3397 of 2020, judgment of 9 October 2020
- Sulbha was distinguished as a case where the concealed ailment was clearly unrelated to the death and was not life-threatening (paras 12–13).
- The Court overturned an order that had required a link to the claim where a serious condition, treated shortly before the policy was taken, had not been disclosed.
Context: A life policy. It is why “the hidden condition had nothing to do with the claim” is an argument, not a guarantee.
Satwant Kaur Sandhu v. New India Assurance Co. Ltd.
Supreme Court of India, Civil Appeal No. 2776 of 2002, judgment of 10 July 2009
- In a mediclaim policy, an inaccurate answer to a proposal-form question about a known material condition entitles the insurer to repudiate (paras 12 and 20).
Context: A mediclaim case. The three-judge bench in Dalbir Kaur relied on it.
Disclosed or not disclosed: why are they two different arguments?
If you declared the condition and the insurer accepted it, the dispute is about the exclusion: is this part of the bill treatment of the pre-existing disease or of its direct complications, and is the waiting period still running? Under the standard wording, cover for a pre-existing disease after the waiting period depends on it having been declared when you applied and accepted by the insurer. And in Manmohan Nanda the Supreme Court held that an insurer that issued the policy after assessing a disclosed condition cannot repudiate by citing that condition. That was said of an overseas travel policy; it does not by itself displace a waiting period your own policy states for a declared condition.
If the condition was not disclosed, the insurer may argue non-disclosure instead. That is a different argument with different rules. The Supreme Court cases above treat the lack of a link between the hidden condition and the claim as an argument, not a guarantee. After 60 continuous months of cover, no claim can be contested for non-disclosure except on established fraud. Our guide to claims rejected for a pre-existing disease covers that side.
Keep the two apart in your grievance. Answer the exclusion point on the medical record. Answer any non-disclosure point on the proposal form, the dates and the length of your continuous cover.
What do the rules say at the hospital desk in an emergency?
Every cashless request, emergency or not, must be decided within one hour of the insurer receiving it. Final discharge authorisation must be given within three hours of the hospital’s request, and any extra charge the hospital levies for a longer delay is borne by the insurer from its shareholders’ funds.
Policy wordings ask you to tell the insurer quickly. The New India wording asks for notice within 24 hours of an emergency hospitalisation or before discharge, whichever is earlier. But IRDAI’s 2024 Master Circular on Protection of Policyholders’ Interests is categorical: “No claim shall be rejected or closed for want of documents or for delayed intimation of claim.” Insurers and TPAs must collect the required documents from the hospital themselves.
If cashless is refused at the desk, the claim is not over. You can pay, then claim reimbursement with the bills and the discharge summary, and the 15-day settlement rule above applies. See cashless refused at the hospital.
What should you ask the hospital and the doctor for?
The rules do not tell an insurer how to split the bill, so your case is made on the record. Ask for these, ideally before discharge:
1. The discharge summary — read it before you leave
It should state the reason for admission and the final diagnosis, and carry the patient’s complete medical history. The standard wording lists a “discharge summary including complete medical history of the patient” among the documents for a reimbursement claim. If the reason for admission is missing or unclear, ask the treating doctor to record it accurately.
2. The emergency and admission notes
How the patient arrived, the symptoms, and when they began. The definition of emergency care in your policy turns on symptoms that occur suddenly and unexpectedly and need immediate care.
3. An itemised bill
The standard wording asks for “original bills with itemized break-up”. Ask whether the hospital can also show which items were for the emergency and which, if any, were for managing the pre-existing condition.
4. A certificate from the treating specialist
On why the admission was an emergency, and on whether the emergency was or was not a direct complication of the pre-existing disease. Ask for the doctor’s own clinical view, never for wording the doctor does not stand behind. It does not bind the insurer, but cause is decided on the medical evidence, and this is the part of that evidence you can ask for.
5. Proof of when the condition was first diagnosed
The first report or prescription for the pre-existing condition. It shows whether the condition falls inside the look-back in your policy’s own pre-existing-disease definition (36 months under the 2024 Regulations; an older wording may give a different period), and what was known when the policy was bought.
6. Your policy schedule and wording
The policy must state its pre-existing-disease waiting period, its exclusions, any co-pay limits, and any sub-limits or proportionate deductions. Note the date your cover began and every renewal since.
A worked example (hypothetical)
Method: we built this from the rules and the Supreme Court judgments on this page. It is not a real case, and it is not a prediction of what any insurer, Ombudsman or court will decide.
Mrs A, 58, declared her type 2 diabetes when she bought her health policy. Her schedule shows a 36-month pre-existing-disease waiting period, and she is in month 20 of continuous cover. She is rushed in at night with chest pain and admitted through emergency with a heart attack. During the stay, the doctors also adjust her diabetes medication.
- Step 1. Is the heart attack the pre-existing disease? No. Her pre-existing disease is diabetes.
- Step 2. Is the heart attack a “direct complication” of the diabetes? The insurer may say so. In Manmohan Nanda the Supreme Court, on an overseas travel policy where the diabetes had been disclosed, said that diabetes is a risk factor for heart disease but not every diabetic will necessarily suffer one, and held that the heart-attack treatment could not be termed a direct offshoot of it. Her cardiologist’s certificate on cause is her evidence; the question is decided on the medical evidence.
- Step 3. What about the diabetes items in the bill? Medicines and tests to manage her diabetes are, on the words of the exclusion, treatment of the pre-existing disease. They may fall within the exclusion while the waiting period is running.
- Step 4. What must the insurer do if it cuts the bill? If it pays the heart-attack treatment but disallows some items, it must give her full details with reference to the specific terms of her policy. If it rejects the whole claim, that repudiation needs the approval of its Product Management Committee or its Claims Review Committee. None of IRDAI’s 2024 health rules tells it what share to cut.
- Step 5. What does she do next? She collects the itemised bill, the discharge summary with the reason for admission, and the cardiologist’s certificate, and writes to the insurer’s Grievance Redressal Officer. If that fails, she can go to the Insurance Ombudsman.
Where do you go if the insurer cuts or rejects the claim?
1. The insurer’s Grievance Redressal Officer
Write to the insurer. The grievance must be acknowledged immediately and resolved within 14 days, with the reasons for not accepting it given by reference to the specific terms of the policy. The insurer’s reply must name the Ombudsman you can escalate to. Use our grievance letter templates, and find your insurer’s grievance contacts on the insurer pages.
2. IRDAI’s Bima Bharosa portal (optional)
You may also register the grievance on Bima Bharosa. It is optional, not a condition for going to the Ombudsman. See how a Bima Bharosa complaint works.
3. The Insurance Ombudsman
A partial or total repudiation of a claim is itself a ground for complaint under Rule 13(1)(b) of the Insurance Ombudsman Rules, 2017, and so is a dispute over how the policy should be read, in so far as it relates to the claim (Rule 13(1)(e)).
You must first put your grievance to the insurer or broker in writing. Only then can you approach the Ombudsman — and only if they rejected it, replied in a way you are not satisfied with, or did not reply within one month of receiving it.
You then have one year — but the date it runs from depends on what the insurer did. If they rejected your representation, or replied in a way you were not satisfied with, the year runs from the date you RECEIVED that rejection or decision. If they never replied at all, it runs from one month after the date you SENT the representation — roughly thirteen months from sending. The Ombudsman can condone a late complaint, but that is discretionary, the insurer is heard first, and the complaint then counts as filed on the date the delay is condoned — so it is not something to rely on.
The filing steps are in our Insurance Ombudsman complaint guide, and the whole ladder is in claim rejected: what to do.
What the rules do not say
- They do not say how to split one admission between an excluded pre-existing disease and a covered emergency, and they set no percentage.
- They do not make every emergency claim payable. IRDAI’s health circulars say a policyholder “shall not be denied coverage in case of emergency situations”, but that sentence sits in the insurer’s duty to offer products for all types of hospitals, not in a claims rule.
- They do not make the treating doctor’s certificate binding on the insurer. It is evidence, weighed with the rest of the medical record.
- They do not say that an undisclosed condition unrelated to the emergency can never matter. The Supreme Court cases above treat the lack of a link as an argument, not a guarantee.
- They do not give every policy a 36-month waiting period. 36 months is the maximum for a disclosed condition under the 2024 Regulations, and an older contract may carry a different figure. Your schedule is the one to check.
- The 60-month moratorium does not lift permanent exclusions written into your policy.
- The 2019 bar on open-ended exclusion words such as “Indirectly related to” was superseded, and the 2024 Health Master Circular does not restate it. It is history, not a rule to cite today.
- We found no primary source on how insurers or TPAs split such bills in practice, so this page does not describe it.
How can BimaHaq help?
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Common questions
Can my insurer reject an emergency claim just because I have a pre-existing disease?
Not on that ground alone. The standard exclusion, IRDAI code Excl01, excludes expenses for the treatment of a pre-existing disease “and its direct complications”, not every illness a person with a pre-existing disease gets. Whether the emergency was a direct complication is decided on the medical evidence. The Supreme Court has held, in a fire-insurance case, that an insurer relying on an exclusion carries the burden of proving it applies (Texco Marketing, 2022). Any repudiation of a health claim also needs the approval of the insurer’s Product Management Committee or its Claims Review Committee. If the condition was not disclosed when the policy was bought, the insurer may raise non-disclosure, which is a separate argument.
Is there an IRDAI rule for splitting one hospital bill between a pre-existing disease and an emergency?
Not in IRDAI’s 2024 health rules. None of the 2024 instruments — the IRDAI (Insurance Products) Regulations, the Master Circular on Health Insurance Business and the Master Circular on Protection of Policyholders’ Interests — says how to split one admission, and none sets a percentage. What they do require is that a claim repudiated or disallowed partially comes with full details giving reference to the specific terms and conditions of your policy.
Is a heart attack a direct complication of diabetes?
Not automatically. In Manmohan Nanda v. United India Assurance (Civil Appeal No. 8386/2015, 6 December 2021) the Supreme Court held that diabetes is a risk factor for heart disease, not a rule that every diabetic will have one, and that the heart-attack treatment could not be termed a direct offshoot of the diabetes so as to be labelled a pre-existing disease. That was an overseas travel mediclaim policy, the diabetes had been disclosed, and the insurer had examined him. Treat it as an argument for your case, backed by the treating cardiologist’s opinion, not as a rule that decides every policy.
What must the insurer tell me if it pays only part of the emergency claim?
IRDAI’s Master Circular on Health Insurance Business (29 May 2024) says that if a claim is repudiated or disallowed partially, the details must be conveyed to you along with full details giving reference to the specific terms and conditions of the policy document. Ask which clause was applied, to which items of the bill, and why each item is treatment of the pre-existing disease or of its direct complications. A partly paid claim is itself a ground for a complaint to the Insurance Ombudsman.
We told the insurer late because it was an emergency. Can the claim be rejected for that?
No. Policy wordings ask for notice; one standard wording asks for it within 24 hours of an emergency hospitalisation or before discharge, whichever is earlier. But IRDAI’s Master Circular on Protection of Policyholders’ Interests (5 September 2024) says that no claim shall be rejected or closed for want of documents or for delayed intimation of claim. Insurers and TPAs must collect the required documents from the hospital themselves.
How fast must a cashless request be decided in an emergency?
Within one hour of the insurer receiving it, and that applies to every cashless request, not only emergencies. Final discharge authorisation must be given within three hours of the hospital’s request, and any extra charge for a longer delay is borne by the insurer. A reimbursement claim must be settled within 15 days of submission; if it is late, interest at the bank rate plus 2% runs from the date the insurer received intimation of the claim until payment.
What if the pre-existing disease was never disclosed when the policy was bought?
Then the insurer may argue non-disclosure, which is a separate argument from the exclusion. In a mediclaim case the Supreme Court held that an inaccurate proposal-form answer about a known material condition entitles the insurer to repudiate (Satwant Kaur Sandhu, 2009), and in a life-insurance case a three-judge bench held that a lack of link between the undisclosed condition and the claim does not always save the claim (Dalbir Kaur, 2020). After 60 continuous months of cover, though, no claim can be contested for non-disclosure or misrepresentation except on grounds of established fraud.
Where do I complain if the insurer cuts or rejects the claim?
First, in writing, to the insurer’s Grievance Redressal Officer, who must acknowledge it immediately and resolve it within 14 days. You may also register it on IRDAI’s Bima Bharosa portal; that step is optional. If the insurer rejects your grievance, replies in a way you are not satisfied with, or does not reply within one month of receiving it, you can approach the Insurance Ombudsman, where a partial or total repudiation is a ground for complaint. Go to the Ombudsman before any consumer commission: a case filed there first closes the Ombudsman route for that dispute.
What this page relies on
Primary instruments and Supreme Court judgments, read on 26 October 2026.
- IRDAI (Insurance Products) Regulations, 2024
F. No. IRDAI/Reg/8/202/2024, notified 20 March 2024, in force from 1 April 2024. Schedule III cl. 1.6, 1.7, 7 and 8; reg. 9.
- IRDAI Master Circular on Health Insurance Business
IRDAI/HLT/CIR/PRO/84/5/2024, 29 May 2024. Chapter I para 1(a)(vii); paras 13, 15(b), 16, 17(a)–(b), 19; Annexure-1 (Customer Information Sheet); Annexure-6.
- IRDAI Master Circular on Protection of Policyholders’ Interests, 2024
IRDAI/PP&GR/CIR/MISC/117/9/2024, 5 September 2024. Part B V-1 to V-3 and VI-1 to VI-2; Schedule para 3.1.
- Insurance Ombudsman Rules, 2017 (as amended till 9 November 2023)
G.S.R. 413(E), 25 April 2017. Rules 13(1)(b) and (e), 14(3) and 14(5).
- Arogya Sanjeevani Policy — policy clauses, The New India Assurance Co. Ltd.
UIN NIAHLIP25044V022425. Cl. 3.19, 3.35, 6.1(a) and (d), 6.2(a), 6.3(a), 9.3(a) and 9.4. An example of a current policy wording, read on 26 October 2026; not a regulation.
- Guidelines on Standardization of Exclusions in Health Insurance Contracts (superseded)
IRDAI/HLT/REG/CIR/177/09/2019, 27 September 2019. Chapter III item A (Excl01). Listed only as the origin of the wording; superseded in 2020, and the 2020 circular in turn by the 2024 Health Master Circular.
- Manmohan Nanda v. United India Assurance Co. Ltd.
Supreme Court of India, Civil Appeal No. 8386/2015, judgment of 6 December 2021.
- Texco Marketing Pvt. Ltd. v. TATA AIG General Insurance Co. Ltd.
Supreme Court of India, Civil Appeal No. 8249 of 2022, judgment of 9 November 2022.
- Smt. Alka Shukla v. Life Insurance Corporation of India
Supreme Court of India, Civil Appeal No. 3413 of 2019, judgment of 24 April 2019.
- Sulbha Prakash Motegaonkar v. Life Insurance Corporation of India
Supreme Court of India, Civil Appeal No. 8245 of 2015, order of 5 October 2015.
- Branch Manager, Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance Co. Ltd. v. Dalbir Kaur
Supreme Court of India (three judges), Civil Appeal No. 3397 of 2020, judgment of 9 October 2020.
- Satwant Kaur Sandhu v. New India Assurance Co. Ltd.
Supreme Court of India, Civil Appeal No. 2776 of 2002, judgment of 10 July 2009.
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This guide is general information about the insurance-grievance process in India, not legal advice, and figures (timelines, monetary limits, jurisdiction) can change — verify against the official sources linked above before you rely on them.