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Buy ₹50 Lakh Health Insurance

A ₹50 Lakh health insurance policy guarantees a coverage limit of 50 lakh rupees for medical expenses. It can pay your insured medical costs for hospitalisation, surgeries and critical treatments. Health emergencies can occur to anybody at any time, and medical expenses continue growing exponentially.

A 50 Lakh health insurance plan protects you with significant coverage, but it's important to fully understand who should buy it, the eligibility criteria, and tax benefits.

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What is the Need for 50 Lakh Health Insurance?

Here is why you need a 50 lakh health insurance plan:

Protects Against High Medical Bills

Protects Against High Medical Bills

A ₹50 lakh cover shields you from heavy out-of-pocket expenses. Major treatments like cancer, heart surgery, or organ transplants can cost over ₹20 lakh.

Covers Entire Family Under One Plan

Covers Entire Family Under One Plan

This plan offers enough sum insured to protect every family member, including senior parents, without coverage shortage during multiple hospitalisations.

Supports Treatment in Metro Cities

Supports Treatment in Metro Cities

Medical care in big cities like Mumbai or Delhi is expensive. Higher coverage ensures access to quality hospitals without having to worry about bills.

Handles Long-Term and Advanced Treatments

Handles Long-Term and Advanced Treatments

Takes care of costly robotic surgeries, chronic illness treatments, and post-hospitalisation care that basic plans may not fully cover.

Keeps You Ahead of Medical Inflation

Keeps You Ahead of Medical Inflation

As healthcare costs double every few years, a ₹50 lakh cover provides future-ready protection for the next decade.

Gives Valuable Tax Benefits

Gives Valuable Tax Benefits

Offers strong health security and tax savings under Section 80D.

What Experts Recommend on Choosing ₹50 Lakh Health Coverage?

Choosing the right health insurance isn’t about picking the biggest number, it’s about ensuring you’re prepared for real-world costs. Ask yourself:

 

* What’s your age and health condition?

* Do you have a family to cover?

* What kind of hospitals do you prefer for treatment?

 

All these factors influence how much coverage you truly need. With medical costs skyrocketing, even a single major surgery can drain your savings. A ₹50 lakh cover gives you the confidence to handle critical illnesses, advanced treatments, and multiple hospitalizations without financial stress. And if budget is a concern, start with a base plan and add a top-up later for extra protection.

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Who Should Buy a 50 Lakh Health Insurance Plan?

Here is who can buy a 50 lakh health insurance plan:

  • High-Income Families and Business Owners: Families or individuals with high incomes, valuable assets, or business commitments should consider a 50 lakh plan. 
  • People with Serious or Chronic Health Conditions: Those with pre-existing or future health risks may find value in the large coverage. This can provide peace of mind and access to treatment for advanced conditions.
  • Working Professionals with High Lifestyle Costs: Corporate professionals who rely heavily on their earnings and cannot get time from work would benefit from this coverage.
  • Families Seeking Full Health Security: Parents wanting to protect their spouse and children under one plan should consider a high-sum insured policy. 
Benefits of Having a 50 Lakh Health Policy

Benefits of Having a 50 Lakh Health Policy

Here are the primary benefits of buying a 50 lakh health insurance plan:

  • Broad Coverage: Protection against hospitalisation, surgery, and life-threatening diseases such as cancer, heart disease, and kidney failure - in addition to pre- and post-hospitalisation expenses, and ambulance costs.
  • Critical Illness Insurance Benefit: Many policies usually offer an additional benefit that is not directly used for hospitalisation costs but provides a source of financial buffer specifically for critical illnesses.
  • Cashless Treatment at Network Hospitals: Get quality care for the policyholder without paying initial upfront costs in an in-network hospital setting.
  • Family Coverage: High-sum coverage can cover the whole family after applying a single plan; remnants, claims and premiums burdens will be reduced with a family coverage policy.
  • Customisation: Many policies now contain the option for add-ons or riders, catering to the custom needs you may have, such as maternity coverage, OPD expenses, or wellness benefits.
  • Tax Benefits: Under the old regime, premiums paid are eligible for deductions under section 80D, providing even more benefits.

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Why Choose 50 Lakh Health Insurance with Digit?

  • Simple Online Processes - From the process of buying a health insurance policy to making claims is paperless, easy, quick and hassle-free! No hard copies, even for claims! 
  • No Age-based or Zone-Based Co-payment - Our health insurance comes with no age-based or zone-based copayment. This means, during health insurance claims, you need not pay anything from your pocket. 
  • No Room Rent Restriction - We understand that everyone has different preferences. That’s why we have no room rent restrictions in health insurance. Choose any hospital room you prefer. 
  • SI Wallet Benefit - If you exhaust your sum insured in health insurance during the policy period, we will refill it for you.
  • Get Treated at Any Hospital - Choose from 9000+ of our network hospitals in India for cashless treatment or opt for reimbursement.
  • Wellness Benefits - Get exclusive wellness benefits on the Digit App in collaboration with top-rated health and wellness partners.

Disclaimer: The numbers for total policies sold, lives insured, claims settled and amount of claims paid is for the Group and Retail Health Insurance policies since inception up to 31st March-2025. The total count of cashless network hospitals is as of 31st March-2025. The claim settlement ratio is for the group and retail health insurance policies for the FY 2024-25.

Key Benefits of 50 Lakh Health Insurance by Digit

Your health insurance plan with Digit extends several exclusive benefits that enhance your coverage. Here are the key benefits:

Key Features Digit Benefit
Cashless Hospitals 9000+ Network Hospitals across India
Premium Discount Up to 20% Discount Available
Wellness Benefits Available from 12+ Wellness Partners
Cumulative Bonus Up to 50% for every claim-free year (with a maximum benefit of 100%)
Customisable Add-Ons 3 Add-ons available (Consumable Cover, Infinite Cumulative Bonus and Smart Save)*
Co-payment No Age-based or Zone-Based Co-payment
No Room Rent Restriction Choose any room of your choice without any extra charges

* These add-ons are subject to underwriting approval and your eligibility at the time of purchase or renewal

What’s Covered in the 50 Lakh Health Insurance Offered by Digit?

Coverages

Double Wallet Plan

Infinity Wallet Plan

Worldwide Treatment Plan

Important Features

All Hospitalisation - due to Accident, Illness, Critical Illness or COVID

This covers for all hospitalisation expenses including due to an Illness, Accident, Critical Illness or even pandemics like Covid 19. It can be used to cover for multiple hospitalisations, as long as the total expenses are up to your sum insured.

Initial Waiting Period

You need to wait for a defined period from the first day of your policy to get covered for treatment related to any non-accidental illness. This is the Initial Waiting period.

Wellness Program

Exclusive Wellness Benefits like Home Healthcare, Tele consultations, Yoga and Mindfullness and many more available on our App.

Sum Insured Back Up

We provide a back-up Sum Insured which is 100% of your Sum Insured amount. How does Sum Insured Back Up work? Suppose your policy Sum Insured is Rs. 5 lac. You make a claim of Rs.50,000. Digit automatically triggers the wallet benefit. So you now have 4.5lac + 5 lac Sum Insured available for the year. However, one single claim, cannot be more than the base Sum Insured as in the above case, 5 lac. .

Once in a policy period; Related and unrelated illness; No Exhaustion Clause; Same person also covered.
Unlimited Reinstatement in a policy period; Related and unrelated illness; No Exhaustion Clause; Same person also covered.
Once in a policy period; Related and unrelated illness; No Exhaustion Clause; Same person also covered.
Cumulative Bonus
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No claims in the Policy year? You get a bonus -an additional amount in your total sum-insured for staying healthy & claim free!

10% of Base Sum Insured for every claim free year, up to max 100%.
50% of Base Sum Insured for every claim free year, up to max 100%.
50% of Base Sum Insured for every claim free year, up to max 100%.
No Room Rent Capping

Different categories of rooms have different rents. Just like how hotel rooms have tarrifs. Digit plans give you the benefit of having no room rent cap, as long as it is below your Sum Insured..

Day Care Procedures

Health insurance covers medical expenses only for hospitalisations exceeding 24 hours. Day care procedures refer to medical treatments undertaken in a hospital, requiring less than 24 hours due to technological advancement such as cataract, dialysis etc.

Worldwide Coverage
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Get a world class treatment with the Worldwide Coverage! If your doctor identifies an illness during your health examination in India and you wish to get a treatment abroad, then we’re there for you.You’re covered!

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Health Check-up

We pay for your health check-up expenses upto the amount mentioned in your Plan. No restrictions on the kind of tests! Be it ECG or Thyroid Profile. Make sure you go through your policy schedule to check the claim limit.

0.25% of Base Sum Insured, Max up to ₹ 1,000 after every two years.
0.25% of Base Sum Insured, Max up to ₹ 1,500 after every year.
0.25% of SI up to ₹ 2,000 after every year.
Emergency Air Ambulance Expenses

There may be emergency life-threatening health conditions which may require immediate transportation to hospital. We absolutely understand this and reimburse for expenses incurred for your transportation to a hospital in airplane or helicopter.

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Age/Zone Based Co-payment
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Co-Payment means a cost sharing requirement under a Health Insurance Policy that provides that the Policyholder/Insured will bear a specified percentage of the admissible claims amount. It does not reduce the Sum Insured. This percentage depends on various factors like age, or sometimes also on your treatment city called zone based copayment. In our plans, there is no age based or zone based Co payment involved.

No Co-payment
No Co-payment
No Co-payment
Road Ambulance Expenses

Get reimbursed for the expenses of road ambulance, in case you are hospitalised.

1% of Base Sum Insured, Max up to ₹ 10,000.
1% of Base Sum Insured, Max up to ₹ 15,000.
1% of Base Sum Insured, Max up to ₹ 10,000.
Pre/Post Hospitalisation

This cover is for all expenses before and after hospitalisation such as for diagnosis, tests and recovery.

30/60 Days
60/180 Days
60/180 Days

Other Features

Pre-Existing Disease (PED) Waiting Period

The disease or condition that you are already suffering with and have disclosed to us before taking the policy and has been accepted by us has a waiting period as per plan opted and mentioned in your Policy Schedule.

3 Years
3 Years
3 Years
Specific Illness Waiting Period

This is the amount of time you need to wait for, until you can make a claim for a specific illness. At Digit it is 1-3 years and starts from the day of policy activation. For the full list of exclusions, read Standard Exclusions (Excl02) of your policy wordings.

1-3 Years
1-3 Years
1-3 Years
Inbuilt Personal Accident Cover

If You sustain an Accidental Bodily Injury during the Policy Period, which is the sole and direct cause of Your Death within twelve (12) months from the date of accident, then We will pay 100% of the Sum Insured as mentioned in Policy Schedule against this cover and as per plan opted.

₹ 50,000
₹ 1,00,000
₹ 1,00,000
Organ Donor Expenses
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Your organ donor gets covered in your policy. We also take care the pre and post hospitalisation expenses of the donor. Organ donating is one of the kindest deeds ever and we thought to ourselves, why not be a part of it!

Domiciliary Hospitalisation

Hospitals can go out of beds, or the patient’s condition may be rough to get admitted in a hospital. Don’t panic! We cover you for the medical expenses even if you get treatment at home.

Bariatric Surgery

Obesity may be the root cause of so many health issues. We absolutely understand this, and cover for Bariatric Surgery when it is medically necessary and advised by your doctor. However, we DONOT cover if hospitalisation for this treatment is for cosmetic reasons.

Psychiatric Illness

If due to a trauma, a member has to be hospitalised for a psychiatric treatment, it will be covered under this benefit, upto INR 1,00,000. However, OPD consultations are not covered under this. The waiting period for Psychiatric Illness Cover is same as Specific Illness waiting period.

Consumables Cover

Before, during & after hospitalisation, there are many other medical aids & expenditures such as walking aids, crepe bandages, belts, etc.,which need your pocket’s attention.This cover takes care of these expenses that are otherwise excluded from the policy.

Available as an Add-On
Available as an Add-On
Available as an Add-On

What’s Not Covered under 50 Lakh Health Insurance Plan?

Pre-Natal & Post-Natal Expenses

Pre-Natal & Post-Natal Expenses

Pre-natal and post-natal medical expenses are not covered unless they lead to hospitalisation.

PED Before Waiting Period

PED Before Waiting Period

A claim for a pre-existing disease or illness cannot be made until the specified waiting period is over.

Hospitalisation without Doctor’s Recommendation

Hospitalisation without Doctor’s Recommendation

Hospitalisation for any condition that doesn’t match the doctor’s prescription is not covered.

Health Insurance Add-on Options with Digit

Enhance your health insurance policy with add-ons at Digit. These add-ons are subject to underwriting approval and your eligibility at the time of purchase or renewal. Here’s a list of add-ons available that provide additional layers of protection beyond the basic coverage of your policy:

Consumable Cover

Consumable Cover

Pay 10% extra premium and we will also cover your non-medical expenses once your base claim is approved.

Pre-existing Disease/Specific Disease/Initial Waiting Period Modification

Pre-existing Disease/Specific Disease/Initial Waiting Period Modification

You can reduce your pre-existing disease waiting period to up to 2 years.

Network Hospital Discount

Network Hospital Discount

Opt for treatment at one of our network hospitals and receive a 10% discount on your premium with this add-on cover. However, a co-payment will be applicable if you get hospitalised in a non-network hospital.

Factors Determining 50 Lakhs Health Insurance Premium

Here are the main factors for determining the 50 lakh health insurance premium:

Age of the Insured

Age of the Insured

Older individuals tend to have more health issues than younger individuals. Therefore, the premium will be higher, while younger individuals will have a lower chance of using medical care, so that the premium will be lower.

Health Condition and lifestyle habits

Health Condition and lifestyle habits

Your overall health and daily habits play a big part in deciding your premium. People with pre-existing illnesses like diabetes, hypertension, or heart disease are seen as higher risk. The same applies to those who smoke, drink, or use tobacco regularly.

Location and Medical Cost

Location and Medical Cost

Premiums often vary by city because medical costs differ across regions. Treatments in metro cities are more expensive than in smaller towns.

Claim History

Claim History

If you have had numerous health insurance claims, the insurance provider may view you as a riskier customer and increase premiums.

Policy Type and Coverage

Policy Type and Coverage

Individual health insurance plans are generally more expensive than family floater plans for the same coverage amount since the risk is focused on one person instead of being shared.

Hospital Networks and Benefits

Hospital Networks and Benefits

Policies that offer a larger network of hospitals or more cashless treatment options often cost slightly more because they provide greater convenience and access.

Riders and Add-ons

Riders and Add-ons

Riders and add-ons are optional covers that add to the premium policyholder's pay. This includes critical illness, personal accident, or maternity cover.

How to Buy 50 Lakh Health Insurance?

Buying health insurance online is simple and hassle-free. If you're planning to purchase a policy from Digit, here’s a step-by-step guide to help you through the process:

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Enter Basic Details

Visit the Digit app or website. Enter your PIN code and mobile number, select your preferred health insurance plan and provide age details, family members covered, etc.

Choose Plan & Add Member Details

Compare & select the plan, sum insured, add-on covers and apply any available discounts to get the final premium amount. Further provide the member details for everyone you’re covering.

Make Payment & Submit KYC

Once done, proceed to make the premium payment and submit your KYC documents to complete the purchase process.

Final Review & Processing

Now, your application undergoes a brief review process. Digit may request a health declaration, lifestyle information, or medical details & reports if required. Now, based on your medical underwriting, your policy will be issued and sent to your email. You can also access it anytime through the Digit app.

Documents Required to Buy 50 Lakh Health Insurance Online

When purchasing a health insurance policy, insurers typically require some basic documents for verification. Below is a list of optional documents that may be needed at the time of purchasing a policy:

Identity/Age Proof

Address Proof

Income Proof

Previous Medical Reports (If any)

KYC Documents

How Much Premium Do I Need to Buy a ₹50 Lakh Health Insurance Plan?

A ₹50 lakh sum insured provides extensive coverage for major medical expenses and emergencies. However, the premium amount varies based on factors like age, location, health condition, and policy features.

The table below shows the starting annual premium for a ₹50 lakh sum insured under Digit’s Infinity Wallet Plan, segmented by age group:

Age Group

Starting Annual Premium for ₹50 Lakh Sum Insured

25 – 35

₹11,077

36 – 45

₹14,063

46 – 50

₹21,448

51 – 55

₹26,702

56 – 60

₹32,963

61 – 65

₹48,654

Note: The premium amounts listed above are indicative and based on publicly available data for Digit's Infinity Wallet Plan with ₹50 lakh sum insured. Actual premiums may vary depending on the applicant's age, location, medical history, lifestyle habits, and chosen add-ons.

Tax Benefits of Having a ₹50 Lakh Health Insurance

Tax Benefits of Having a ₹50 Lakh Health Insurance

Here are the simple tax benefits of purchasing a 50 lakh health insurance plan:

  • For self, spouse, and children: Up to ₹25,000 per year (₹50,000 if any insured is a senior citizen).
  • For parents: Separate deduction up to ₹25,000, or ₹50,000 if they are senior citizens.
  • Maximum deduction: You can claim up to ₹1,00,000 in a financial year if you and your parents are senior citizens.

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