Across the board, private healthcare providers felt the brunt of the pandemic in the first half of 2020, with operating profits falling by 35% to 86%. Yet, reports Daily...South Africa
Discovery Health, South Africa’s largest private medical schemes administrator, has published a letter to members in which it says there was no racial discrimination...Weekly Roundup
Discovery Health says funding has been set aside for 2m of its members to get the vaccine as it throws its weight behind a national effort to source a cost-effective...South Africa
The Council for Medical Schemes (CMS) has outlined how the country’s medical schemes must offer cover for the virus. Business Tech reports that in a circular sent...
February 19th, 2020
In "a scathing and precedent-setting ruling" against Discovery Health Medical Scheme, the Council for Medical Schemes (CMS) may open the door to force schemes to pay...
Because of their market dominance, there was little incentive on the part of the Big Three medical schemes to drop prices, the health market inquiry found.
Discovery...Weekly Roundup
The medical schemes regulator has rejected a proposed merger between South Africa’s third biggest medical scheme, Momentum Health, and a small scheme restricted to the...South Africa
Private hospital group Life Healthcare has concluded the sale of its stake in Indian hospital group Max Healthcare for R3.7bn, marking the final nail in the coffin for...
May 22nd, 2019The practice of medical schemes excluding pre-existing conditions like pregnancy comes under fire from Fatima Hassan, executive director of the Open Society Foundation...
The Times reports that an increasing number of medical aid members who are downgrading because of tough economic times.
Medical aid broker Alexander Forbes said the...
