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...
Consumers will have to fork out up to 10% more for their medical aid schemes from January. Actuaries have warned, meanwhile, that if the government pushes through the...South Africa
The principal officer of the Government Employees Medical Scheme (GEMS) has warned against the state’s plans to merge it with other schemes for public servants, saying...Weekly Roundup
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....