The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues to impact all sectors and medical aid schemes have not been spared. Several solutions are being put forward to support...
May 13th, 2020
The chair of the Council for Medical Schemes (CMS), Clarence Mini, has died from COVID-19, Business Day reports the regulator’s spokesperson confirmed.
The report...
The Government Employees Medical Scheme (GEMS) actuaries estimates that it will spend around R900m for the care and treatment of GEMS beneficiaries who will contract...South Africa
The Board of Healthcare Funders (BHF) and the Health Funders Association (HFA) have challenged the Council for Medical Schemes (CMS) shock move last year to scrap...South Africa
South Africa’s biggest medical aid scheme has begun legal proceedings to claw back millions of rand fraudulently lost to scores of private doctors and hospitals, The...Letter
Phumelela Dhlomo, GEMS chief marketing officer, gives his response to criticism from Morné Malan, senior researcher at the Solidarity Research Institute.
Dhlomo...South Africa
Trade union Solidarity has criticised the recent decision by the government’s biggest medical scheme to guarantee private hospital care to all its members, saying it...Weekly Roundup
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...
