OREANDA-NEWS. 'Expert RA' rating agency confirmed 'ASKOMED' medical insurance company reliability and service quality rating А, which means high reliability and service quality; the rating outlook is stable. The stable outlook means high probability of maintaining the rating in the mid-term.

Numerous insurance policy collection points (8.6 per 100,000 insured persons in 2012), plenty of applications for selection and replacement of a medical insurance company (34.8% as of April 1, 2013, vs April 1, 2012), high incidence of visits to medical insurance companies (3,241.1 per 10,000 insured persons in 2012) have a positive impact on the rating. 'In addition, the Company conducts the array of medical care quality reviews (2.2% of loss events in 2012) and discovers a bulk of violations in expert cases (28.0% of reviewed expert cases in 2012)', notes Olga Basova, Leading Expert, Insurance Company Ratings Division.