Home » health insurance » “R$ 2.7 billion every month”: Ana Paula paralyzes Bom Dia Brasil with the collapse of Unimed’s colossal health plan
Customers are caught unaware when Ana Paula stops by Bom Dia Brasil to announce the end of Unimed’s health plan
The news that the Unimedone of the largest health plan operators in Brazil, was on the verge of bankruptcy, shocking TV viewers Good morning Brazil.
Ana Paula, the program’s renowned anchor, paralyzed the broadcast by revealing that the plan was facing stratospheric debt. This financial collapse not only impacted the millions of customers of Unimedbut it also cast a shadow of uncertainty over the country’s healthcare sector.
“Unimed Paulistana goes bankrupt and will have to transfer more than 700 thousand customers to another operator”. This is how Ana Paula caught everyone who was watching Bom Dia Brasil off guard. “One of the largest health plans in São Paulo, Unimed Paulistana, went bankrupt. The monthly fees received totaled more than R$2.7 billion.” He said then.
According to G1, on February 1, 2016, the ANS had decreed the extrajudicial liquidation of the operator, but the measure was suspended by an injunction from the Unimed Paulistana on the same day.
On February 3, the Federal Court accepted the argument of Unimed that the suspension of the new ANS decision did not harm the client transfer process.
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As reported by Ana Paula during an article in Bom dia Brasil, on December 1, 2015, the ANS had already given deadlines for the Unimed Paulistana transferred its beneficiaries to other operators, due to administrative and financial problems identified in the company.
Affected customers
In total, around 744 thousand beneficiaries of the Unimed Paulistana were transferred to other System operators Unimed. Or to other health insurance companies.
It is important to highlight that, even with the suspension of the extrajudicial settlement, the unit is no longer selling new health plans.
What is a Health Plan?
One health insurance It is a service provided by specialized companies. Health plan operators, which offer their customers access to a network of hospitals, clinics, laboratories. In addition to other health service providers, upon payment of a monthly fee.
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