Simplyhealth has bought Denplan from the Axa Group. Denplan is the UK’s leading dental plan specialist and by expanding into the broader dental plan market, it now has the opportunity to become better known for providing services to dentists and help more individuals with their dental health. Over the past ten years, Simplyhealth has been on a path of growth and diversification.

Medicash will be launching a new Cash Plan wef 01/03/2012 named Proactive and will be available to groups wishing to cover 25 employees or more. One of the major differences with this plan is that it covers a PMI excess payment of £200 on the Level 1 option (£1 per week) and will pay the provider direct. So clients who have PMI cover and are looking to reduce the premiums by including an excess now have the facility to claim the cost of the excess back from Medicash.

From the 1st January 2012 BUPA will be reducing the number of BMI Hospital which are available to its members, the reason according to BUPA is that Hospital costs account for around half of its members' premiums. Premiums have increased for its members by about 10 percent a year for most of the last decade, despite cutting its own costs and having no shareholders to pay. Apparently BUPA have been in discussion with BMI for some time about the arrangements for Bupa members however from 1 Jan...

Westfield Health have improved its Mosaic Cash Plan which instead of starting at a minimum of £1 per employee per week, they are now able to offer a £0.75pw option just £39 per year. The new Mosaic offering is available to groups who wish to insure more than 250 staff, previously if a company wanted to cover 250 staff the cost would have been £13,000 per year, the option would cost just £9,750.00 per year. Cash Plans are a great way of improving staff morale, improving health and wellbeing of st...

BUPA improves its Cancer cover  Bupa’s aim is to enable people to lead longer, healthier, happier lives through offering choice and providing access to the best healthcare. We are pleased to announce that we’ve made a further improvement to the way we manage cancer cover for our members - NHS cancer cash payment offers members the choice to have their cancer treatment on the NHS instead of making a claim for cancer treatment under their Bupa cover. Our new cancer cash payment enables member...

Bupa has changed the way it deals with knee arthroscopy (keyhole surgery to treat the knee joint) in future. Background According to BUPA there is published medical evidence which shows that there is a lack of patient benefit from knee arthroscopy for certain conditions, such as chronic knee pain due to osteoarthritis. As with many medical conditions, people with the same conditions and symptoms sometimes receive different treatments based on the preference of the treating doctor rather tha...