CURBING ABUSES
Insurers shrug off healthcare regulations
Clientele and Hollard, two major insurers that offer hospital cash plans, have indicated they will not be adversely affected by the Treasury’s new healthcare demarcation regulations. The regulations, a joint Treasury and Department of Health exercise, are designed to protect consumers by curbing abuses in the market. The regulations will come into force in April and are intended to differentiate between medical healthcare schemes and health insurance. Clientele group MD Basil Reekie said benefits which would be offered on new policies would be the same, or similar, to the ones being phased out. The company would make minor tweaks as a result of the regulations, but would still offer hospital cash plans. "Clientele has been involved in the consultative process and has ensured that policy terms on new business have been changed over time to mirror the expected changes," he said. Reekie said Clientele would not be able to use "hospital" in its products, and its use in marketing would h...
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