OREANDA-NEWS. On July 16, 2007 Gazprommedstrakh, a medical insurance company and part of the SOGAZ Insurance Group, has signed a contract for the provision of obligatory medical insurance (OMI) for employees of OJSC Gaz-Servis (Republic of Bashkortostan). Gazprommedstrakh has insured about 7,9 thousand people, reported the press-centre of SOGAZ.

Considering the results of the tender held in January 2007 to choose the insurance company to provide OMI cover to unemployed and senior residents of Bashkortostan, the total number of the region’s residents insured by Gazprommedstrakh has exceeded 240 thousand 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 15,356 mln 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.

The SOGAZ Insurance Group comprises the following companies: OJSC SOGAZ, Neftepolis Insurance Company Ltd, OJSC Gazprommedstrakh, SOGAZ-life Insurance Company Ltd, the management company CJSC Leader, and the medical services company Gazprommedservice Ltd. The Group's regional network includes 350 subdivisions. SOGAZ holds the highest reliability rating (A++) awarded by the Expert PA rating agency.