Brazil renews policy on private health insurance
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
Brazil's supplementary healthcare agency (ANS) has issued new regulations governing the private insurance system, including capping increases in private schemes to 8.71% until April 2002. Other measures announced by the ANS are aimed at tightening its control of the system and monitoring prices in the sector, while allowing greater freedom in the negotiation of collective insurance policies.