Bupa

Fundamental change is needed to tackle the "complacent" private healthcare market and resulting unsustainable PMI premiums, Bupa has warned.

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Bupa has made a verbal agreement in principle with the Association of Medical Insurance Intermediaries to offer its individual PMI proposition through the body's broker members.

Bupa is "very pleased" with how its intermediary-sold individual PMI pilot phase is going after pulling its previous proposition last summer.

Competition Commission statistics - as part of its private healthcare market investigation - have shown consultants do not reference insurer guidelines when making patient fee levels.

AXA PPP and Bupa have come out top as providers offering the most potential PMI value through affinity partnerships, Finaccord has reported.

Bupa has added two BMI Healthcare hospitals to its recognised list for policyholders.

Dilnot proposals will ease the long-term care funding gap but it will not remove it as a record number of care homes residents are continuing to pay for their own care, Laing & Buisson has stated.

Bupa International has partnered with Jubilee Insurance, east Africa's large insurance group.