‘Two medical insurance companies are leaving Chelyabinsk Region’s market at the moment. These are Ural-AIL-Med and Medincom that used to insure slightly over 70,000 locally employed people,’ Chelyabinsk Region Obligatory Medical Insurance Fund explained to an UrBC reporter.

‘Some companies are leaving the regional insurance market and some new ones are coming to replace them, and this is all perfectly normal. Insurers are private enterprises that can set up or close down a business in this or that part of Russia. The thing is, the employers whose workers have been insured with a leaving company have to have the workers’ insurance policies replaced with the new ones. It is up to the employer to decide which new company to work with,’ says the Fund’s CEO Valeriy Nekrasov.