The Council for Medical Schemes (CMS), says it will appoint two advisory committees to engage with stakeholders on a low-cost benefit option (LCBO) framework and...Medico-Legal
Discovery Health has responded to a Council for Medical Schemes' ruling that Discovery must fund an alternative surgical treatment for glaucoma, which Discovery had...Board of Healthcare Funders Conference
The Health Professions Council of SA (HPCSA) is reviewing the rules governing the contracts between medical professionals, in the wake of criticism that its current...Weekly Roundup
The Times reports that an increasing number of medical aid members who are downgrading because of tough economic times.
Medical aid broker Alexander Forbes said the...South Africa
South Africa’s medical schemes regulator has slammed the Treasury for not consulting it on the draft Conduct of Financial Institutions Bill, saying it will render it a...Medical Aids
The Alexander Forbes Health annual Diagnosis report hows that most South African medical aid schemes are, for the third year, paying out more in claims than they earned...
September 20th, 2017It is time to curb excessive costs, before it kills both the private health sector and the country’s medical schemes, writes Susan Erasmus on Fin24. The nub of the...
