Why keeping patients out of hospital is insurers new business

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Hypertension is the most common cardiovascular risk factor in Africa with one in every three adult Africans affected. FILE PHOTO | SHUTTERSTOCK

A gym session, a flu jab, a health check or a reminder to take medicine may not look like typical insurance business. Kenya’s medical insurers are increasingly treating such interventions as part of the business, hoping that keeping customers healthier will also keep claims under control.

Many insurers are shifting focus from paying for illness to preventing it as a sharp rise in healthcare costs threatens to make medical cover increasingly expensive for employers and households.

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