Posts Tagged ‘Bupa’
Bupa has recently opened a new dental care facility in Holborn, central London. This will be the company’s 13th centre in the UK and offers appointments out of office hours. With this new opening it’s clear Bupa is continuing its aim of becoming the UK’s largest dental service provider. In December last year, Expat Health [...]
East Africa’s largest insurance group, Jubilee Insurance, has joined forces with Bupa International to provide health insurance in Kenya. The products will target the growing middle-class, mid-level managers and expatriates in the country. This collaboration will see Jubilee bring Bupa’s international health insurance products to customers in Kenya. The product range will include the recently [...]
Bupa is set to acquire the largest dental chain in Australia and New Zealand, the international healthcare company announced today. The deal, worth £244 million, should be completed in March 2013 subject to shareholder and regulatory approvals. In addition to the initial outlay, Bupa will pay £47 million over the next three years to management [...]
Bupa reported revenues up 6% in the first half of 2011, driven by strong performances in Australia and Asia, as well as favorable foreign exchange movements. The firm’s pre-tax profit rose 51% to GBP 244.1 million. Revenues across Bupa’s international businesses increased 14% and pre-tax profit 63%, with most subsidiaries delivering strong growth (particularly Bupa [...]
Medical evacuations are one of the costliest expenses for international health insurance companies, wrote Peter Pallot in Health Insurance & Protection Magazine: Growing numbers in the insurance industry believe there are economies to be made in the tricky field of medical evacuations. Tricky because medivacs essentially involve life-threatening situations, while the cost of just one [...]
Romania’s new Delta Hospital has joined Bupa International’s network in an effort to better serve the country’s expat community, reported Romania Business Insider. The 10,000 square meter, EUR13 million facility opened in June. According to Business Insider, the private hospital offers medical services ranging from consults, analysis, investigations and newest imagistic [sic] diagnoses, to treatments [...]
Bupa is speaking out to defend a controversial review process for knee surgery implemented in May, according to Health Insurance & Protection‘s Nigel Lowry. The procedure requires surgeons to complete paperwork showing a clear cause for performing the surgery, as well as which treatments have already been attempted. That is all well and good. What [...]
Morgan Price is the latest expat health insurance provider to offer full medical underwriting procedures, noted Globalsurance in a recent post. Medical underwriting is the process by which insurers use applicants’ medical information to evaluate their eligibility for health or life insurance. Usually the most important factor health insurance firms consider in underwriting is pre-existing [...]
Political turmoil in the Middle East and natural disasters in Japan have shown the wisdom in adding emergency evacuation clauses to expatriate insurance plans, notes The Telegraph. The challenging nature of emergency evacuations has in turn led both medical assistance firms and insurance companies to team with private security contractors. Three years ago the UK’s [...]
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