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...In a statement, James Sherwood, general manager for Bupa UK insurance healthcare management, said the company had “carefully considered” how to balance affordability for customers with the doctors’ demands...
...Last year, ADQ merged state health operator Seha and insurance provider Daman into PureHealth, forming a national healthcare giant....
...the healthcare start-up Babylon had an enterprise value of $3.6bn , a clutch of prestigious partnerships with the UK’s NHS, backing from the US big data company Palantir and an expected $575mn windfall...
...JAB has acquired stakes in two companies from Fairfax, taking over its interests in Crum & Forster Pet Insurance Group and Pethealth in a deal announced on Monday....
...The company says the jab has an efficacy rate of 79 per cent in phase 3 trials....
...The insurance company carries little debt, and a lot of excess capital....
...The former FTSE 100 healthcare operator collapsed into administration last month after discovering billions in off-balance sheet debt of which the company’s directors were unaware....
...an in-depth report on Google’s healthcare business....
...From 2018, they will also attract employer national insurance....
...It means modernising the way we fund students of healthcare....
...Private companies are increasingly cherry-picking patients and treatments they consider lucrative, leaving the NHS to pick up the bill for the most difficult services....
...Insurance companies or employers who foot the bill for healthcare, for instance, might one day use the information to track people in their daily lives and require them to act in ways most likely to benefit...
...It welcomed an order by the Competition Commission this month under which some healthcare providers will have to sell hospitals. Healthcare groups plan to fight the ruling....
...William Laing of Laing & Buisson says: “People do not pay for their own healthcare directly at the point of purchase. They pay through insurers....
...After all, from Bush v Gore (before he joined the bench) through Citizens United, many rulings had been music to conservative ears and anathema to the other side....
...With United expected to take its PBM business in-house, that raises the prospect the combined company could also face competition from the biggest healthcare insurers....
...This is the country’s most popular tourist attraction and is South African owned once again; Growthpoint, South Africa’s largest property company, and the PIC each bought a 50 per cent share in the V&A for...
...Insurers are preparing to plug the growing gaps in state healthcare provisionas the National Health Service faces the most radical reform in its 62-year history....
...Just five insurers account for 80 per cent of the private insurance market and the top five private hospital groups account for almost 70 per cent of the market....
...But one element of “Plan A” – reducing public debt relative to national income - was effectively abandoned in the Autumn Statement....
...“I want to give them more control over their healthcare.”...
...In her spare time she enjoys running and is a Manchester United fan. people@ft.com...
...The technology and healthcare sectors also benefit from net cash positions, according to KPMG. But is the feeding frenzy good news for shareholders?...
...They would not be “too big to fail” themselves but their mortgage securities would be backed by the US government through a catastrophe insurance-type fund....
...And last year United Health, the US health insurance group valued at $8bn (£5.4bn), bought Scriptswitch, the drug comparison software provider, for £50m....
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