{"id":1022,"date":"2025-09-04T02:12:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T02:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fipo.staging.mysites.io\/?p=1022"},"modified":"2026-03-02T18:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T18:42:07","slug":"fipo-challenges-market-distortions-in-private-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fipo.uk\/index.php\/2025\/09\/04\/fipo-challenges-market-distortions-in-private-healthcare\/","title":{"rendered":"FIPO challenges market distortions in private healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FIPO has met with the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to raise serious concerns that the private healthcare market is no longer operating as the CMA intended when it introduced the Private Healthcare Market Investigation Order in 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As private healthcare becomes increasingly dominated by insured patients, practices by health insurers are restricting patient choice, limiting provider access, and distorting competition \u2013 precisely the risks the CMA sought to prevent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The CMA intended that the remedies they proposed would allow for fair competition, transparency, and genuine patient choice. FIPO believes these protections are being undermined by anti-competitive and restrictive behaviour in the health insurance market.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FIPO set out these concerns in a detailed letter to the CMA Chief Executive in July. The CMA has acknowledged the seriousness of the issues raised, and FIPO will be pursuing further engagement in the interests of consultants and their patients, providers, and a fair healthcare market.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIPO has met with the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to raise serious concerns that the private healthcare market is no longer operating as the CMA intended when it introduced the Private Healthcare Market Investigation Order in 2014. As private healthcare becomes increasingly dominated by insured patients, practices by health insurers are restricting patient choice, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1027,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fipo.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fipo.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fipo.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fipo.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fipo.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fipo.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fipo.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fipo.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fipo.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fipo.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}