WPA

Are private medical schemes paying too much to cover too few and could tiered benefits provide a solution, asks WPA's Ellis Turley.

WPA has made changes to its corporate cash plan.

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

The PMI concerns raised in BBC1's Watchdog last night were all about choice and cost control, WPA has said.

Bupa has been the latest to warn about the nearing ‘affordability crunch' in the private medical insurance market as premiums continue to rise. What genuine, clean slate innovation would you like to see in PMI - and how possible will real innovation be?...

The group PMI market has been a little flat of late. So why not try to dazzle it? That's the consensus view of some providers, as Nicola Culley reports.

Intermediaries queried corporate deductible PMI products today at an educational seminar held by WPA in London.

The growing take-up of corporate deductible PMI products wis likely to invite greater HMRC scrutiny, Axa PPP has warned.

Westfield Health has recently released a new product, Hospital Treatment Insurance, aimed at the middle ground between cash plans and PMI. Considering the lengthening of hospital waiting lists, could this be the birth of a third tier to the health insurance...

Simplyhealth has plans to expand its offering with a corporate deductible-style group PMI.