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The sixth annual ranking of companies in the region with the highest growth. Health tech businesses thrive post-pandemic even as VC funding drops.
...One in four of the companies surveyed already offer private medical insurance, rising to almost half for groups employing more than 1,000 people....
...Before winding down, the start-up was one of the fastest- growing health-tech companies in the US, having raised well over $100mn from investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Greylock Partners....
...Hundreds of anaesthetists sent letters to Bupa on Friday informing the company of their decision to resign from contracts, according to two people familiar with the revolt....
...Aviva, one of the largest providers of health insurance in the UK, reported that its “protection and health” premium sales were up 23 per cent in the third quarter of last year compared with the same period...
...“The biggest barrier is insurance companies,” said Lawrence Honig, a neurologist at New York’s Columbia University Irving Medical Center....
...The company set a new target to generate £2bn of operating profit by 2026, and new guidance that the cash cost of its dividend should grow by a mid-single-digit percentage....
...You can buy travel insurance from insurance companies, banks, travel agents, supermarkets, holiday companies and online comparison websites....
...The positive data will also be a boon to Eli Lilly’s efforts to push for more widescale coverage of the drugs by private insurers and US federal health insurance programme Medicare, which were both initially...
...Cigna is in talks to merge with Humana in a deal that would create a US health insurance giant worth $140bn and provide a significant test for antitrust authorities, according to people briefed about the...
...The US healthcare company said it now expected diluted earnings per share to be at least $7.06, down from previous estimates of at least $7.26....
...“I need to make the best use of my limited savings,” said Li. “Health insurance is not my top priority.”...
...But health insurance “doesn’t do what the NHS does . . . It’s a very restrictive model.”...
...Non-white mothers often can’t take time off work or get childcare to go to the doctor, may not have health insurance or don’t live in areas where medical care is easily accessible, CDC experts say....
...If this is the era of Big Tech and Big Pharma, providers of health tech should be on a roll. Some are....
...US health insurer Cigna has abandoned plans to merge with Humana, a blockbuster transaction that would have created a $140bn insurance giant, according to people familiar with the matter....
...For that reason, the 2023 FT Person of the Year went to Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen, chief executive of Novo Nordisk, the pharmaceutical company that brought these successful weight-loss drugs to market....
...Axa’s health premiums fell 7 per cent in 2023, as two contracts with large corporate clients in France were not renewed, the company said....
...In total, the 18 healthcare companies had assets of $7bn against liabilities of $8.3bn....
...The writer is a science commentator Four years ago this week, the World Health Organization declared the rapid spread of a new coronavirus to be a pandemic....
...In the US, more than 90 per cent of sales are completely or partially covered by health insurance, the company said....
...Robert Andrews, chief executive of the HTA, said it was “almost impossible to overstate the financial and health impact” of the drugs, given that chronic diseases driven by obesity were a major source of...
...Cigna is reportedly in talks to merge with Humana in a deal that would create a US health insurance company worth $140bn....
...US health insurer Cigna has abandoned plans to merge with Humana, a blockbuster transaction that would have created a $140bn insurance company, according to people familiar with the matter....
...According to health data company Airfinity, there are 232 anti-obesity medications at various stages of development, from pre-clinical studies on animals to late-stage, phase 3 trials....
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