Employers Still Paying Inflated Prices for Outdated Private Healthcare Plans

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Employers Still Paying Inflated Prices for Outdated Private Healthcare Plans

PR Newswire LONDON, November 9, 2012

LONDON,November 9, 2012/PRNewswire/ --

Alliance Surgical Pioneers More Cost Efficient Employee Medical Plans

With private health insurance premiums inflating at an average rate of 12% per year, UK employees are suffering from increasingly reduced benefits as employers are left with no choice but to revise coverage plans.

Outdated Private Medical Insurance (PMI) provider plan structures and treatment purchasing decisions are further crippling the affordability of quality private health plans for employers.

To tackle the increasing escalating costs associated with private health schemes, the UK's largest group of leading NHS and private consultants is launching a radical new approach to reform corporate medical plans.

For the first time, Alliance Surgical Corporate Health Limited 's plan for employees will be offering large employers a direct partnership with the highest quality medical expertise available from an actual provider of healthcare - the first real direct competition to leading private health insurers.

By dealing directly with a medical organisation rather than a traditional PMI provider, the plan enables companies to make significant cost savings, without the need to reduce their employees' benefits.

Under this innovative scheme, doctors will be directly managing the patient treatment costs and not an insurance company. By triaging every patient with a clinical consultant, the plan ensures that each case is handled with the most clinically appropriate treatment.

Consultant Vascular Surgeon andAllianceBruce Braithwaite, explains:Surgical Director of Operations, "Consultants in the UK are responsible for spending approximately 80 per cent of the budget that companies pay for employee healthcare benefits. By directly connecting companies to their healthcare provider, doctors now have the ability to significantly reduce costs by avoiding expensive over-treatment and unnecessary tests - all of which means increased benefits for employees."

This method of case-management of every single claim on a clinical and cost basis means that corporate health spend will be more efficiently managed and employees will have better health coverage than any PMI provider in the UK can deliver.

Greg Clarke, Chief Executive of Alliance Surgical C orporate Health,explains: "Increasingly, employers or their healthcare advisers are calling for medical plan providers to be more innovative and curtail steep increases in plan costs. At a time when employees are struggling to m aintain medical plans and control rising claims costs, we know that the introduction of this new approach to providing employees with comprehensive yet affordable medical plans will be well received across the UK."

Alliance Surgical is offering private employee medical plans for schemes of more than 500 staff. For more information about Alliance Surgical Corporate Health Limited, visithttp://www.alliancesurgical.co.ukor contact [phone].

For more information or comment from a spokesperson , please contact:

Meghan Bush Weber Shandwick [phone] [e-mail]