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Healix backs PMI open referrals

Cover | 27 Jan 2012 | 15:13

Healix has voiced support for the use of open referrals within the private medical insurance (PMI) market but warned that insurers need to be more transparent about the process.

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Simple products given cautious welcome

Cover | 27 Jan 2012 | 12:05

Advisers have given the Treasury’s simple products initiative a tentative thumbs up while recognising that the financial services industry is overly complicated.

Private hospitals face tough year as PMI income falls

Cover | 27 Jan 2012 | 15:34

The coming year promises to be a tough one for the private healthcare sector, according to a new report from analyst Laing and Buisson.

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Is this the end? Cash plans as PMI excess – sustainable?

Cover | 16 Dec 2011 | 10:22

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

Individual IP - Time to change gear?

Cover | 16 Dec 2011 | 10:20

Owain Thomas finds that, sometimes, driving a Ford Focus rather than an Aston Martin is a good thing

Around the world: South African viral marketing

Cover | 06 Dec 2011 | 14:30

Underwriting requires information, so what can your connections tell us? Greg Becker visits South Africa to look at one idea.

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