The Council for Medical Schemes is probing South Africa’s two biggest medical schemes — Discovery Health Medical Scheme (DHMS) and the Government Employees Medical...South Africa
The Council for Medical Schemes is proposing consolidation of all medical schemes for public servants into the Government Employees Medical Scheme (GEMS) in line with...Weekly Roundup
The Government Employees Medical Scheme (GEMS) paid out 91m claims for its 1.8m-strong membership base during 2017, amounting to a total value of more than...
July 11th, 2018The four-year long Competition Commission Health Market Inquiry's finding reveal what Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi says he already knew – that South...
July 4th, 2018There can be no dispute that SA’s health care system needs major reforms, writes Professor Laetitia Rispel of the University of the Witwatersrand in The Conversation....
June 27th, 2018A medical brain drain could be a consequence of the Medical Schemes Amendment Bill and the National Health Insurance Bill gazetted last week, says a Sunday Times report....
South African taxpayer’s tax credits totalling about R25bn will be phased out in the coming months as a means of funding the incoming National Health Insurance...Weekly Roundup
Discovery Health Medical Scheme continued to dominate South Africa’s medical insurance industry with almost 1m more beneficiaries than the government employees’...Weekly Roundup
The Government Employees Medical Scheme (Gems) has turned its finances around by tightening control of hospital admissions and introducing new rules for public servants...Medico-Legal
The Grahamstown High Court has ordered a retired Mthatha surgeon and former medical school dean, to repay the R7m mistakenly put into his bank account by Metropolitan...
