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    Insurance Giant Ping An Launches Private Doctor Program

    Aug 15, 2019

    China’s largest insurance provider on Tuesday launched a new initiative that pairs individual customers with their own physicians.

    Private Doctor — available through insurance giant Ping An’s health care platform, Ping An Good Doctor — provides one-on-one medical services, both online and offline, to adults for 499 yuan ($71) per year and to children for 999 yuan per year, according to an official announcement. Doctors from 100 leading hospitals across the country have signed on to participate, the company said.

    Within five years, Private Doctor aims to serve some 10 million Chinese families, Ping An Good Doctor’s CEO, Wang Tao, said in Tuesday’s notice. And several leading businesses — including China Mobile, China CITIC Bank, and Wyeth Nutrition — have reportedly joined the initiative as “strategic partners.”

    In an effort to ease the heavy burden on China’s public hospitals, 10 national-level government departments in June announced plans to make private health care services more streamlined and more accessible, effectively welcoming private providers to plug increasingly concerning holes in the market. (Image: IC)