Cashplans

Healthcare intermediaries have called for cash plan providers to offer greater product innovation and provide more training on the market.

Simplyhealth is offering a new module on its corporate cash plans to cover private medical insurance (PMI) excesses.

COVER is proud to announce that Aviva, LV=, PruHealth, PruProtect and Simplyhealth are sponsoring its new website.

COVER's editor Paul Robertson introduces the new website and invites you to come in and nose around.

Medicash has launched a new corporate health cash plan including unlimited NHS Cover, access to Best Doctors and direct payment of PMI excesses.

Universal Provident has launched a new combined protection and health insurance product aimed at customers forced to reduce their cover limits.

Protection complaints continued to rise during the year and have already breached last year's totals in some product areas.

Simplyhealth has bought dental cash plan provider Denplan from Axa for £115m.

Bupa has introduced its first consumer dental insurance product.

Cash plans are increasingly used in place of private medical insurance excess. Howard Hughes assesses the sustainability of this pricing model