Flash Health brings cashless OPD service to Abans Finance

Flash Health has partnered with Abans Finance to bring its Cashless OPD solution to the company’s employees, marking another step towards making everyday healthcare more accessible, convenient, and cashless for Sri Lankan corporates.

The partnership adds to Cashless OPD’s growing corporate footprint, which now includes MSC Lanka, the Sri Lankan arm of MSC, the world’s No. 1 container shipping line by capacity, St. Joseph’s College Teachers’ Guild, Akbar Brothers, McLarens Group and other leading organisations. Together, Flash Health now manages Cashless OPD access for more than 3,000 lives across Sri Lanka.

The product is the result of years of research into Sri Lanka’s healthcare and corporate benefits market, with a focus on practical, affordable and impactful innovation. Instead of requiring companies to pay a large premium upfront, Cashless OPD operates on a pay-as-you-go model, with corporations paying only when employees use the service.

This means companies do not lose money on unused benefits, overpay for employees who leave the organisation or need to commit funds upfront.

For SMEs, this makes structured healthcare benefits more accessible. For larger corporations, it offers a smarter way to manage employee healthcare costs. For employees, it means healthcare can be accessed more easily, more quickly, and more affordably.

A senior executive from Akbar Brothers said the value of Cashless OPD lies in making healthcare benefits more useful in practice while reducing internal complexity.

“What we valued about Cashless OPD was that it made the benefit more practical and accessible for employees. It allows them to have medicines delivered without upfront payment, complete lab tests from home, access Flash partner labs on a cashless basis, and consult with GPs and specialists online. What makes Cashless OPD especially different is that it sits at the rare intersection of healthtech, fintech and insuretech.”

The solution combines elements of fintech, insuretech and healthtech. It removes the need for employees to pay upfront and claim later, while helping companies manage cash flow more efficiently. It also moves away from the traditional premium-based model towards a more flexible pay-as-you-go structure.

For Abans Finance, Cashless OPD also offers the flexibility to add services such as telehealth consultations, giving employees broader access to healthcare through a single benefit model.

With Abans Finance now joining the platform, Cashless OPD continues to demonstrate how healthcare innovation can move beyond theory and into everyday working life.

Picture: Arshad Ameer, CEO and Founder, Flash Health, and Prabash Lakmal, Head of Human Resources, Abans Finance