CommInsure appoints UHG
CommInsure has appointed United Healthcare Group (UHG) to handle its medical requirements, including assisting advisers, for the next four years.
The mandate was confirmed by both companies this week with UHG managing director, Dr Brendan Carp attributing the arrangement to his company's ability to provide a one-stop arrangement for insurers.
He said UHG would assisting CommInsure to deliver an improved service to advisers, industry funds and customers.
Carp said that since UHG had started its Medical Report Retrieval Service in 2002 it had introduced a range of innovations and was no looking towards claims processing and the delivery of efficiency gains through its medEbridge secure technology for extracting information from general practitioner practice management systems.
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