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...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...
