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Health Insurance Claim Inflation Report 20102016 PDF
Health Insurance Claim Inflation Report 20102016 PDF
Contents
Introduction ………………………………….3
Objective……………………………………….3
Executive Summary……………………….3
Methodology…………………………………3
Individual Vs. Group policies………….4
Disease-wise Component-wise CAGR 2010-11
to 2015-16……………………………………..6
Component-wise Disease-wise analysis CAGR
2010-11 to 2015-16……………………….12
Claim Paid Amount Vs. Amount Claimed Vs.
Health CPI ……………………………………..16
Inflationary Trends in Sub-classes of
Circulatory Diseases………………….…..18
Conclusion……………………………………..18
Observations/Caveats………………………………….19
Tables & figures…………………………………………..20
1. Introduction:
The Insurance Information Bureau of India has been collecting transaction level data on Health
Insurance policies, members and claims from all non life insurance and standalone health
insurance companies in India. The Health data is collected in 3 formats.
1. Policy Data
2. Members Data
3. Claims Data
2. Objective:
It is an undisputed fact that costs of health care are growing every year. The growth rates are
different for different components of amount claimed (Investigation, Surgery, Room &
Nursing, Medicine etc.) as well as for different types of diseases. The main purpose of this
study is to arrive at growth rates in costs of health care based on insurance claims
corresponding to different components of amount claimed and different disease groups. This
inflation report analyses the data submitted by the Insurance companies to IIB from 2010-11
to 2015-16. The limitations of the report are highlighted as a part of the disclaimer towards
the end of the report.
3. Executive Summary:
During the period 2010-11 to 2015-16 the compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of amount
claimed was 9% under individual policies and 20% under group policies.
Majority of the Component-wise charges (Investigation, Surgery, Room & Nursing, Medicine
etc.) under group policies showed higher inflation than that under individual policies.
Maximum increase was seen in Investigation charges under group policies which grew by 29%
annually and the least in Surgery charges under individual policies with 8%.
CAGR of claim paid amount under almost all disease types is 10% or more under both
individual and Group policies. Significant growth was seen in Arthropathies, accidents, blood
Diseases and endocrine in case of Individual policies. With the exception of accidents, same
disease groups had high CAGR under group policies.
4. Methodology:
The following statistical process has been followed.
Step 1: Total claim transaction records have been segregated into individual and group claims.
Step 2: Distribution of amount claimed per transaction for individual as well as group claims
has been observed through detailed descriptive statistics. Claim paid amounts, which are on
extremely high side have been treated as outliers.
Step 3: Transactional level Claim data are aggregated to one record per claim where the
amount claimed corresponding to the last submitted transaction is considered as the amount
claimed for that particular claim and the total claim paid is summed across the transactions.
Even after the aggregation also, the coefficient of skewness and kurtosis are extremely high.
So the mean computed through this process will not be a true reflection of industry-level
average amount claimed. This leads to the next step of handling outliers from the data before
computation of the industry-level averages.
There are a few records where the amount claimed is displayed negative, whereas in
reality it cannot be negative. Hence, these records are omitted from the computation of
average.
The amounts claimed are assumed to follow a positively skewed distribution (Log normal
distribution) and hence the values of amounts claimed are log transformed before the
identification of outliers.
After the log transformation, those values which are more than (third quartile + 1.5 times
the Inter quartile range) or which are less than (first quartile - 1.5 times the Inter quartile
range) are treated as outliers and omitted from the computation of Industry-level average
value of amount claimed for a single claim.
Step 5: After the outliers are removed through the above process, the coefficient of skewness
and Kurtosis are very much close to zero indicating the normality of the data. Mean of the log
transformed amounts claimed is computed and the exponent of the resulting mean is taken as
the mean of the amount claimed for that type of policies.
Step 6: Steps 2 to 5 have been repeatedly performed for amount claimed data for all the years
from 2010-11 to 2015-16. Inflation is computed as Compounded Annual Growth Rate (CAGR)
which is the Geometric mean of the growth rates of each of the years.
Step 7: Similar process is repeated to compute mean for all components of total amount
claimed under all Disease types wherever data are available and inflation is computed as CAGR
of the mean.
INDIVIDUAL Vs. GROUP POLICY TABLE 1: Difference in Index Individual vs. Group Policy (2015-
16)
Only a marginal difference in CAGR was Disease-wise & Component-wise CAGR 2010-
observed in respect of Investigation charges 11 to 2015-16
with 29% under Group and 26% under
Individual policies. And that for Room and As expected all the components of amount
nursing charges was almost the same under claimed under each disease type followed the
both Group and Individual policies with 14% overall trends in the industry revealed in fig 4
and 15% respectively. On the other hand that and fig 5. For example, under Individual
for miscellaneous charges, Pre and Post policies, Investigation expenses find place in
hospitalisation expenses was higher under the top four under all disease types (Fig. 6 to
Individual policies. Fig. 40) which is consistent with their third
place overall (fig 4).
Maximum CAGR was observed in the case of
miscellaneous charges with 43% under The same trend in respect of all the
Individual policies as against 31% under Group components is also noticeable under all
Policies. disease types in group policies.
Figure 4: Individual Policy Expenses CAGR
Figure 6: Individual Policy: Infectious disease expenses - actual
CAGR Vs. Overall Mean CAGR
Figure 8: Individual Policy: Circulatory disease expenses actual Figure 11: Group Policy: Neoplasm disease expenses actual
CAGR vs. Overall Mean CAGR CAGR vs. Overall Mean CAGR
Figure 14: Individual Policy: Blood disease expenses actual Figure 17: Group Policy: Nervous disease expenses actual
CAGR vs. Overall Mean CAGR CAGR vs. Overall Mean CAGR
Figure 16: Individual Policy: Nervous disease expenses actual Figure 19: Group Policy: ARTHROPATHIES disease expenses
CAGR vs. Overall Mean CAGR actual CAGR vs. Overall Mean CAGR
Figure 20: Individual Policy: UROLOGY expenses actual CAGR Figure 23: Group Policy: PREGNANCY expenses actual CAGR
vs. Overall Mean CAGR vs. Overall Mean CAGR
Figure 26: Individual Policy: DIGESTIVE expenses actual CAGR Figure 29: Group Policy: SKIN expenses actual CAGR vs.
vs. Overall Mean CAGR Overall Mean CAGR
Figure 28: Individual Policy: SKIN expenses actual CAGR vs. Figure 31: Group Policy: EYE expenses actual CAGR vs.
Overall Mean CAGR Overall Mean CAGR
Figure 32: Individual Policy: EAR expenses actual CAGR vs. Figure 35: Group Policy: PERINATAL PERIOD CONDITIONS
Overall Mean CAGR expenses actual CAGR vs. Overall Mean CAGR
Figure 38: Individual Policy: INJURY expenses actual CAGR vs. Figure 41: Group Policy HEALTH SERVICES RELATED expenses
Overall Mean CAGR actual CAGR vs. Overall Mean CAGR
Amount claimed:
Figure 43: Group Policy: Total Amount Claimed – CAGR (2010- Figure 45: Group Policy: Claims Paid – CAGR (2010-11 to 2015-
11 to 2015-16) 16)
Figure 47: Group Policy Post Hospitalization Expenses – Figure 49: Group Policy Pre Hospitalization Expenses –
Disease-wise CAGR Disease-wise CAGR
Figure 51: Group Policy Miscellaneous Expenses – Disease- 23% respectively while the rest were below
wise CAGR
20% (Fig. 53)
Figure 53: Group Policy Medicine charges – Disease-wise CAGR
Medicine Expenses:
Investigation Expenses:
CAGR for medicine charges was relatively low
under individual policies. For almost all the High growth rates were witnessed in
disease types the rate was below 30% with investigation expenses under disease types
the highest one recorded by Arthropathies viz., Mental disorders, Clinical findings,
followed by Perinatal period conditions. (Fig. Respiratory, Skin and ear in respect of
52) Individual policies. Under Group polices
Clinical findings showed highest growth rate
Figure 52: Individual Policy Medicine charges – Disease-wise followed by Mental disorders, Infections and
CAGR ear (Fig. 54)
Figure 54: Individual Policy Investigation Expenses - Disease-
wise CAGR
Figure 55: Group Policy Investigation Expenses - Disease-wise Figure 57: Group Policy Surgery Expenses - Disease wise CAGR
CAGR
Consultation Charges:
Surgery Charges:
Under both individual and group policies
Pregnancy showed highest growth rate CAGR of consultation charges related to
followed by Arthropathies, Mental disorders accidents was the highest. Under individual
and Malformation and Deformations under policies it was 43% and group policies, 35%.
Individual policies (Fig. 56) Mental disorders, Endocrine and Eyes were in
the top four under Individual policies while
Figure 56: Individual Policy Surgery Expenses - Disease wise Clinical findings, Infections and Urology in the
CAGR
corresponding slots under Group polices Fig.
58 & 59)
Figure 59: Group Policy Consultation Expenses - Disease wise Figure 61: Group Policy Room & Nursing Expenses - Disease
CAGR wise CAGR (2012-16)
Figure 60: Individual Policy Room & Nursing Expenses - Rural Health care Inflation was the highest as
Disease wise CAGR (2012-16)
per the data given in CPI. Thus it has been
taken as Bench Mark in this section. Fig. 62
Figure 63: Individual Policy: Amount Claimed Index vs. CPI Figure 65: HYPERTENSIVE: Individual Policy Vs. Group Policy –
health claim Inflation Index (Rural) Expense-Wise CAGR (2010-15)
Source: IIBI & All India Consumer Price Index (Rural/Urban) (Base: 2012=100)
Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation
2015-16(Fig. 64)
Observations/Caveats:
a. Total Amount claimed is populated in more than 97% of the records but the break-
up of the total amount claimed into various components (Room and Nursing,
Surgery, Consultation, Investigation, Medicine, Pre hospitalization, Post
Hospitalization and Miscellaneous) is populated in less than 25% of the total records
only.
b. Proper disease codes are captured in less than 50% of the records only.
c. Total amount claimed matches with the sum of the aforesaid components in less
than 5% of total records only.
d. All the fields which are populated by the insurers have been considered
independently.
Disclaimer:
This Report is based on the data received from Insurance Companies in India
and data and information from various other sources. Insurance Information
Bureau of India (IIB) does not warrant the accuracy of any advice, opinion,
statement, representation or other information contained in this Report. No
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