• Insurance regulator IRDAI has set up a panel of experts called ‘Health Insurance Advisory Committee’ to examine the availability of health insurance products in the country, considering the need of the Indian society and recommend suitable products and processes.
• The expert committee will be headed by IRDAI Chairperson Subhash Chandra Khuntia and will have a Member (Non-Life) as the vice-chairperson.
• The committee, which has a term of one year.
• The panel will also examine the extant health insurance product structure in terms of policy conditions to protect the interest of the policyholders and develop strategy on treatment protocol or rate structure to improve affordability of health insurance 

Members of the committee include:

• Nachiket Mor (Visiting Scientist, Banyan Academy of Leadership in Mental Health),
• A K Chand (Professor and Neurosurgeon, Bangalore),
• B K Mohanti (Former Professor and Oncologist, AIIMS),
• K Hari Prasad (Anaesthetist, Hyderabad), and Pankaj Sharma (IRDAI).