The Government Employees Medical Scheme (GEMS), the second biggest scheme in the country, had a problem in KwaZulu-Natal. Moneyweb reports that it identified this...
October 9th, 2019
The ministers of Health and Economic Development hit back at Health Market Inquiry findings blaming the government for “inadequate stewardship” of the private...
The medical schemes regulator has revived a controversial plan to establish a central database of scheme members and is once again calling on schemes to provide personal...Board of Healthcare Funders Conference
Introducing tighter controls on medical scheme members’ access to specialists and limiting their choice of hospitals could save the industry R20bn a year, bringing...
July 10th, 2019The National Health Care Professionals Association's crusade against 'racial profiling' took a blow when its court application against 19 medical schemes was thrown out...
The Council for Medical Schemes (CMS), along with various doctor associations and the Board of Healthcare Funders, has instituted an inquiry into allegations of...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
Some of South Africa’s best-known medical schemes are losing money hand over fist in opaque “risk transfer” arrangements, in which they pay service providers...South Africa
Doctors and medical schemes clashed in discussions during the Council of Medical Schemes’ inaugural Fraud, Waste and Abuse Summit, which was boycotted by...
December 5th, 2018
A medical doctor's court battle to get the Government Employees Medical Scheme (GEMS) to pay for his cancer treatment has ended after the expensive Keytruda...
