Merging healthcare and health insurance

Global health insurer AXA described at its AGM how healthcare and health insurance are merging their services, towards ‘healthcare, backed by insurance’.  Ian Youngman looks at AXA’s healthcare vision and explains why this poses a significant risk to medical tourism and healthcare facilities which are not part of insurer networks or partnerships. Working alongside patients and health…

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Keith Pollard
As Editor in Chief of International Medical Travel Journal (IMTJ) and a Healthcare Consultant for LaingBuisson, Keith Pollard is one of Europe’s leading experts on private healthcare, medical tourism and cross border healthcare, providing consultancy and research services, and attending and contributing to major conferences across the world on the subject. He has been involved in private healthcare, medical travel and cross border healthcare since the 1990s. His career has embraced the management of private hospitals in the UK, research and feasibility studies for healthcare ventures, the marketing and business development aspects of healthcare and medical travel and publishing, research and consultancy on cross border healthcare.