Raksha Summit 2025: Shaping a borderless future for healthcare access

At the core of India’s healthcare shift is a simple, urgent vision: a system that is predictable, transparent, intelligence-driven, and effortless for every member. It is this belief that shaped the Raksha Summit, conceptualised by Medi Assist in collaboration with The Economic Times and Boston Consulting Group, now recognised as one of the sector’s most agenda-setting gatherings.

The 2025 edition builds on strong momentum. Last year’s Summit set a high watermark by introducing the landmark “Borderless Health: A Roadmap for Viksit Bharat” report with BCG, which laid out the Health JAM Trinity—Joined Health Data, Automation, and Mobile-led access—as the backbone of a future-ready ecosystem. This year, the Summit sharpens its focus to the realities demanding action today: Fraud, Waste & Abuse (FWA), medical inflation, and out-of-pocket expenditure. These are the stress points that affect sustainability, pricing fairness, and ultimately, member confidence. To confront them head-on, Raksha 2025 puts its key highlights upfront—an intentional move to frame the day around the issues that matter most.

A major moment will be the release of the new BCG–MA report on FWA, a deep dive into how data-led precision, early detection, and transparency can shift the industry from suspicion to solution. Equally anticipated is the keynote by Kasim Kutay, CEO of Novo Holdings, who brings a global lens on healthcare resilience, investment flows, and the architecture of future health systems. The day’s conversations culminate in the Raksha Awards, celebrating innovation and leadership across benefits design, digital transformation, customer-centricity, global benefits, preventive care, and excellence in employer health.


Panels through the day unpack two central themes:
– How prediction, pricing, preemption, and partnerships can combat FWA and inflation at scale
– How interoperable data, automation, and mobile-led access can break silos and build seamless, member-centric journeys

Together, these discussions bring into focus a healthcare system ready to evolve from fragmented to integrated, from reactive to predictive, from complex to effortless.

The day’s conversations will be driven by a sharp lineup of leaders from across healthcare, insurance, finance, technology, and policy. Among them: Dilip Jose, MD & CEO, Manipal Hospitals; Anand Roy, MD & CEO, Star Health Insurance; Karthik Narayanaswamy, Partner & India Head, Novo Holdings; Sanjay Joshi, CMD, Oriental Insurance Company Ltd; Amitabh Chaudhry, CEO, Axis Bank; Vipin Kumar Singh, Director, National Anti-Fraud Unit, NHA; and Dr. Kiran Somvanshi, Author & Journalist each bringing a distinct lens to the sector’s biggest questions. Adding further depth are industry heavyweights Dr. Ashutosh Raghuvanshi, MD & CEO, Fortis Hospitals; Shikhar Malhotra, CEO & Vice-Chairman, HCL Healthcare; Amit Ganorkar, MD & CEO, Tata AIG; Sarbvir Singh, Joint Group CEO, PB Fintech; Mayank Bathwal, CEO, Aditya Birla Health Insurance; and Arvind Laddha, President, Ace Insurance Brokers, who will collectively chart how systems, incentives, and consumer experiences must evolve for a borderless future of healthcare

The Raksha Awards will close the evening by celebrating trailblazers across precision insights, digital transformation, customer-centricity, benefits architecture, global benefits, ecosystem innovation, preventive care, and women leaders in healthcare benefits.

The Raksha Summit continues to distinguish itself by being more than a conference. It is a checkpoint for the industry, a moment for leaders to reassess what’s working, confront what isn’t, and realign around a health benefits ecosystem that must be both sustainable and effortless.

As India stands on the edge of a decisive decade for healthcare transformation, Raksha 2025 offers not just discussion, but direction.

To explore the full agenda and speaker lineup, visit the microsite here.