IN CONVERSATION WITH VARUN GERA
Our Partner, Samsuddha Majumder, talks to Varun Gera, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, HealthAssure, about the key GST-related issues impacting the healthcare sector.
They delve into the cascading effect of tax on OPD services and its incidental impact on end consumers, suggesting changes in the tax regime that could address the issue. They also discuss how tax authorities have recently been sensitive about the input tax credit available to insurance companies on certain services provided to them by their distribution partners and that better alignment between the two regulators could allow for a more conducive approach that takes into account commercial realities in the insurance sector.
Profile
Varun Gera
Varun Gera is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of HealthAssure, a health services aggregator focusing on primary medical care through network-based products across 1300 cities in India. Varun founded HealthAssure in 2011 and today it is one of the largest primary care delivery ecosystems in India with platform access to a plethora of medical centres, serving individual retail customers, insurers and corporates alike.
Varun has more than twenty-two years of leadership experience in start-ups, sales, product and consulting. He is an active member of industry bodies and serves on the advisory board of several corporates. Prior to starting his entrepreneurship journey, he was the Chief Executive Officer of a large health and wellness solution provider and had also worked with several other large corporates.
