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Ripple effect of jobs pressure on medical schemes
The poor performance of medical schemes has put pressure on payments made to providers such as Life Healthcare. Business Day reports that the group’s...
Conmed liquidated and members moved to Bonitas
Community Medical Scheme (Commed) is to be liquidated, and its 11,000 members moved over to Bonitas Medical Scheme, Business Day reports the Council for...
Cosatu and Motsoaledi on collision course over NHI
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi and his department are on a collision course with Cosatu over the National Health Insurance (NHI), ahead of the governing...
Bonitas claims 'price war' victory in dispute with hospital group
Bonitas, South Africa’s third largest medical scheme, is claiming victory in what it believes is the beginning of a competition and price war with...
Discovery wants Competition Commission to dismiss complaint
Discovery Health Medical Scheme has asked the Competition Commission to dismiss Afrocentric Health’s complaint that it is undercutting competitors, contending it lacked merit.
The dispute between Discovery and Afrocentric currently...
Psychologists hit as med scheme payments dry up
Non-clinical SA psychologists are closing shop in their droves because of a standoff with medical aids that refuse to pay for their services, reports...