Sanitas joins the Allianz Global Benefits Network
New partnership for group healthcare insurance - Expansion of distribution network in Spain - Access to a global employee benefits network
by Allianz Global Benefits | 4 min read
Allianz Global Benefits, the employee benefits network of Allianz Group and Sanitas, a leading healthcare specialist in Spain, have signed a partnership agreement as of December 16, 2021 to globally provide group healthcare insurance programs to multinationals.
“We are delighted to welcome Sanitas to our network. This partnership will allow us to address the healthcare needs of multinational corporations in Spain with advanced comprehensive offering and enable the clients to gain from participating in global employee benefits programs, such as Multinational Pooling, Captive Reinsurance and Global Underwriting”, says Dirk Hellmuth, CEO of Allianz Global Benefits.
Mariana Ishchuk, Head of Strategy & Network Management at Allianz Global Benefits adds: “Sanitas is a widely recognized healthcare specialist in Spain and at the forefront of innovation and digitization. With their extensive healthcare network and flexible products combined with a high commitment to meeting specific client needs, we will be able to jointly ensure best in class propositions for our common multinational clients.”
Javier Ibáñez, Managing Director of Sanitas Seguros, states: “We are very proud of this partnership which will allow us to be the healthcare provider of reference for Allianz Global Benefits in Spain”. Additionally, Javier Ibáñez concludes: “This partnership allows us to offer solutions that cater to the health needs of the multinational companies that Allianz works with by putting at their disposal all the advantages that digitalization brings to the health care of the people and the planet.”
About Allianz Global Benefits
Allianz Global Benefits is the global employee benefits network of Allianz Group and provides employee benefit solutions to multinational corporations and global brokers at a global level. The spectrum of solutions encompasses the full range of protection, pension and asset management products and services via a global and local network of more than 110 Allianz subsidiaries and selected external insurance partners in over 90 countries. Headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany, it has access to a team of international experts based in regional Allianz offices in Munich, London, Chicago and Singapore.
For more information please visit https://www.allianzglobalbenefits.com/
About Sanitas
Sanitas is a specialist in healthcare and well-being services in Spain. It offers its clients products and services adapted to people’s real needs at each stage of their lives through an integral healthcare model that includes: medical insurance, hospitals and multi-specialty centers, well-being centers, dental clinics, other health services and services for the care of the elderly.
It has 11.250 employees; it has a medical team made up of over 49.000 specialists and 4.000 associated medical centers, in addition to its own service, formed by 4 hospitals, 20 multi-specialty medical centers, 16 well-being centers, 200 dental clinics, 45 homes for the elderly, 17 of them with day center services and 5 independent day centers.
Sanitas forms part of Bupa, a leading international healthcare company, which serves over 18 million health insurance customers our of 31 million customers worldwide.
For more information please visit https://www.sanitas.es/
Global Communication contacts:
Melanie Liedtke
melanie.liedtke1@allianz.com │+49.711.663.1220
Nerea González
ngonzalezd@sanitas.es │+34.91.654.277.308
Ana Bernardo
aibernardo@sanitas.es │+34.91.680.887.624
Cautionary note regarding forward-looking statements
The statements contained herein may include prospects, statements of future expectations and other forward-looking statements that are based on management's current views and assumptions and involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties. Actual results, performance or events may differ materially from those expressed or implied in such forward-looking statements.
Such deviations may arise due to, without limitation, (i) changes of the general economic conditions and competitive situation, particularly in the Allianz Group's core business and core markets, (ii) performance of financial markets (particularly market volatility, liquidity and credit events), (iii) frequency and severity of insured loss events, including from natural catastrophes, and the development of loss expenses, (iv) mortality and morbidity levels and trends, (v) persistency levels, (vi) particularly in the banking business, the extent of credit defaults, (vii) interest rate levels, (viii) currency exchange rates including the EUR/USD exchange rate, (ix) changes in laws and regulations, including tax regulations, (x) the impact of acquisitions, including related integration issues, and reorganization measures, and (xi) general competitive factors, in each case on a local, regional, national and/or global basis. Many of these factors may be more likely to occur, or more pronounced, as a result of terrorist activities and their consequences.
No duty to update
The company assumes no obligation to update any information or forward-looking statement contained herein, save for any information required to be disclosed by law.
About the author
