OREANDA-NEWS. On July 10, 2007 Gazprommedstrakh, a medical insurance company and part of the SOGAZ Insurance Group, has been declared winner in a public tender for selecting medical insurance organisations to provide obligatory medical insurance (OMI) for the unemployed and senior citizens in the Nizhny Novgorod Region, reported the press-centre of SOGAZ.

As per the tender results, Gazprommedstrakh will provide insurance to 450,000 unemployed citizens and pensioners residing in the Moscow District of Nizhny Novgorod and the Town of Sarov, as well as 21 districts of the Nizhny Novgorod Region: Bogorodsk, B. Boldino, Buturlino, Vad, Varnavino, Voskresenskoe, Gagino, Gorodetsk, Kovernino, Krasnooktyabrsk, Lukoyanovo, Pavlovsk, Perevoz, Pilna, Pochinki, Semionovo, Sergach, Sechenovo, Sosnovskoe, Sokolskoe and Shatki.

Until now, obligatory medical insurance (OMI) has been provided to the unemployed and senior citizens of the Nizhny Novgorod Region by the OJSC Gazprommedstrakh, too.

OJSC Gazprommedstrakh has been active in the Nizhny Novgorod Region since April 1998. At the moment, the total number of Nizhny Novgorod Region residents insured by Gazprommedstrakh under OMI schemes, with account for the tender results, exceeds 760,000 people.

The medical insurance company OJSC Gazprommedstrakh was established on 1 April. OJSC Gazprommedstrakh specialises in obligatory medical insurance (OMS in Russian), and is one of the largest medical insurance companies in the Russian Federation, boasting over 9,8 mln individual policyholders and a highly developed regional network of over 300 branches in 46 subjects of the Russian Federation. According to the results of 2006, the company’s income from OMS insurance premiums totalled 15,356m roubles. This figure puts Gazprommedstrakh in third place in the league table of Russia’s medical insurance companies. The company’s paid-in authorized capital amounts to 102.5 mln roubles.