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Dementia insurance policies in Europe within a year

Dementia policies which pay out for care are available in Japan and the USA and will be sold in Europe by the autumn of 2019 or earlier, says Peter Ohmenus, President and CEO of Dacadoo, the digital genetics wellness platform.
September 21, 2018

GHG looks abroad

Georgia Health Group is keen to expand into healthcare tourism. Meanwhile, its insurance arm is looking at the small and medium business market.
September 21, 2018

International healthcare insurers – it’s a hard life

What is it really like to be a big international private medical insurer? Based on interviews with (un-named) managers at several big groups, here is our take. What emerges clearly is that insurers see themselves as weak and may be surprisingly ignorant about provider networks. They still behave as little more than passive bill payers.
September 21, 2018

FREE BLOG Insurers between rock and hard place

The threat of Amazon, Ali Baba and Alphabet was uppermost in the minds of healthcare insurers at Uniglobal 10th Global Health Insurance Conference.  Their response is to build partnerships, particularly in telehealth and wellness apps.
September 21, 2018

Axa shakes up Switzerland

Healthcare insurer Axa is shaking up the Swiss market by turning it on its head. It is offering to find consumers the cheapest statutory insurance product which all but guarantees that they get Axa’s supplementary product for free.
September 20, 2018

Brazil’s largest HMO acquires competitor

Amil, Brazil's largest insurance and hospital operator, has acquired competitor and medical insurance company Sobam Group. We speak to a market expert to find out more.
September 19, 2018

FREE BLOG The secret of Israeli healthcare

It is ironic that conferences on best practice in healthcare are dominated by Americans – the people who have the world’s most dysfunctional healthcare system. Israel and Taiwan are much better bets. So how do they do it?
September 12, 2018

Saudi Ministry of Health hospitals cut ties with private insurers

Seven out of ten of Saudi Arabia's health insurance policyholders will no longer be able to get treatment at Ministry of Health facilities reimbursed after the government department cancelled service contracts with the country's two largest health insurers, Bupa Arabia and Tawuniya. A Bupa Arabia spokesperson tells us that this won't affect its policyholders who mostly use private facilities anyway, while a local contact says there is more to this than reasons cited in the Saudi press.
August 10, 2018
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