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Aust Health Insurer Nib To Boost Advertising To Retain Customers
Australian health insurer Nib (ASX:NHF) is to ramp up its advertising to help retain customers who might otherwise drop their private health cover because of the means testing of rebates. The private health insurer predicts almost 5000 of i...
Indian Insurers Asked To Explore Daycare Hospital Treatment
India's insurance industry regulator IRDA on Tuesday said companies should explore the possibility of including daycare treatment in hospitals under health policies. The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (Insurance Regulatory a...
India's Sbi Life Insurance Moves Into Health Insurance Market
India's SBI Life Insurance has announced a foray into the health insurance segment with the launch of its 'Hospital Cash' plan, which provides a fixed daily allowance to policyholders for each day of hospitalisation. The Hospital Cash plan...
More Than 10 Million Australians Now Covered For Pvt Hospital
More than 10 million Australians are now covered by private hospital insurance, the highest rate in a decade. The new figures have prompted Health Minister Nicola Roxon to push ahead with her plan to means-test the private health insurance r...
Aetna Agrees to Reduce Proposed Rate Increase on Health Plans
Aetna Inc. has become the latest health insurer in California to scale back proposed rate increases under pressure from Dave Jones, the state's insurance commissioner. Jones has made lowering health insurance rates in his state one of his t...
Indonesian Health Insurer Askes Reports Us$50 Mln Q1 Net Profit
Indonesian state owned health insurance for civil servants PT Askes reported Rp428 billion (US$50 million) in net profit in the first quarter of his year. Askes' president I Gede Subawa described the performance as excellent without giving...
Gloria Pharmaceuticals to Take Helm of Dilong Pharmaceutical
Harbin Gloria Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd. (SZSE: 002437) yesterday issued an announcement, saying that it plans to acquire a 51% stake in Heilongjiang Dilong Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. The acquisition is still under planning and the specific ac...
Ping An to Be First to Join in Public Hospital
China Ping An Trust Investment Co., Ltd. is said to have signed a cooperation agreement with the government of Longgang District, Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province on the public hospital Longgang Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital. The m...
Insurance & the Future of Healthcare in Florida: On the Offense
After the tumultuous finish to the years when he built Columbia/HCA into the nations largest healthcare company, Rick Scott came to Florida. In 2001, without much notice, he backed creation of an urgent-care company, Jacksonville-based Solan...
Health Insurers Challenged amid Medical Reform
Wider coverage of China's basic medical insurance system delivers a strong impact on commercial health insurance companies after implementation of the nation's new medical reform. The development environment of health insurance, especially...
HHS Rule Guarantees Students Get Health Insurance Protections of the Affordable Care Act
A new proposed regulation announced by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) would ensure students enrolled in health insurance coverage through their college or university benefit from critical consumer protections created by t...
PICC Health Insurance Reaps CNY69mn Net Profit
Sun Life Everbright Life Insurance Co., Ltd. reaped CNY 5.106 billion in premiums last year, surging 243% year on year. The year-on-year surge is almost eight times the industry average. With rapid business growth, the life insurer's market...
Indian Healthcare To Double Size To Us$100 Bln By 2015: Fitch
The Indian healthcare sector will double its size to US$100 billion by 2015 from the present US$50 billion, according to ratings agency Fitch. Giving a stable outlook for the sector, it said: Fitch expects a continuous double digit growth i...
Indian health insurance JV Max Bupa plans US$100 mln expansion
Indian health insurer MAX BUPA on Tuesday said it would invest over Rs 450 crore (US$100.5 million) in the next four years to expand its business. Currently, the paid up capital of the company stands at Rs 236 crore and promoters are commit...
Ping An of China Jan.-Oct. Premium Income Up 30.47%
Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China Ltd. (SHSE: 601318) states in an announcement that its three major holding subsidiaries recorded about CNY 190 billion in original premium revenue in the first ten months this year, expanding by 30...
National Diabetes Month, 2010 - By the President of the United States of America
Today, nearly 24 million Americans have diabetes, and thousands more are diagnosed each day. During National Diabetes Month, we recommit to educating Americans about the risk factors and warning signs of diabetes, and we honor all those liv...
Carlyle Covets Chinese Featured Pharmaceutical Sector
The Carlyle Group, a private global investment firm, now is interested in the characteristic pharmaceutical companies in the product research and development (R D) and sales channels. The investment giant was said to take part in the twenty...
China Likely to be 3rd Biggest Drug Market Worldwide
The Chinese pharmaceutical market is expected to reach USD 134 billion in 2011, accounting for 15 percent of the global market and turning into the third largest pharmaceutical market worldwide, according to a head of the southern pharmaceu...
Cebu Council asks Congress to raise pay for barangay health workers
The Cebu City Council has passed a resolution asking Congress to pass the bill granting an increase in the salary of barangay health workers (BHW) as well as compulsory health insurance coverage. The council expressed its ?strong? support fo...
NEW INDIA ASSURANCE CHIEF SAYS 24 FIRMS APPLY FOR TPA LICENCE
Indian state-run general insurer New India Assurance Company's chairman and managing director M. Ramadoss on Wednesday said the country's four public-sector general insurers have so far received 24 applications to set up the proposed common...
PARTNERS+simons Intros Health Reform Readiness
PARTNERS+simons has announced the launch of Reform Readiness, a proprietary approach for health insurance marketers looking to succeed in a radically new regulatory environment. As health insurers plan for strategic growth and customer acqu...
Brown-Forman Gets Perfect Score on Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index
Brown-Forman said it received a perfect score of 100 points out of 100 in this year's Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index (CEI), an increase of 15 points over last year's tally of 85 points. According to a release, a total of 6...
New Tool Compares Private Health Insurance Plans
Starting today, you can compare private insurance plans on Healthcare.gov, similar to the way you compare flights and other products on consumer research websites. Health insurance companies are now required by law to make public certain de...
Committee Members Urge Aetna & Anthem to Reverse Decision to Eliminate Child-Only Plans in California
Today Representatives Henry A. Waxman, Anna G. Eshoo, Lois Capps, Jane Harman, and Doris O. Matsui sent letters to Anthem Blue Cross of California and Aetna Health of California regarding recent reports that the companies will stop offering...
Interactive Intelligence Opens On-Site Health Care Clinic
Interactive Intelligence (Nasdaq: ININ), a global provider of unified IP business communications solutions, has opened an on-site health care clinic to increase employee focus on wellness and prevention. Interactive Intelligence has contrac...
DOH puts premium on health insurance
The Department of Health (DOH) under the Aquino administration is putting a premium on health insurance as a basic right of all Filipinos. This was revealed by DOH Regional Director Ariel Valencia after confirming October 2, 2010 as a natio...
Emerging Nations May be Future of Health Care
In this decade, most of the growth in sales of health-care products and services should come from the world's emerging nations, according to the latest Sector Focus commentary by Turner Investment Partners. In fact, emerging nations like Ch...
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