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Medical aid

Council wants med aid premium hikes capped, but this would limit benefits also

By Paula Luckhoff

The Money Show interviews Alexander Forbes' Paresh Prema and Profmed CEO Craig Comrie.

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    Medical aids one of biggest drivers of lower CPI rate in Feb - economists

    Stats SA said that the average annual increase across medical aid schemes in February was 4.7%, which was substantially lower than the 9.6% recorded in the same month last year.

    507 days ago
  • FILE: Advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi at the North Gauteng High Court on 12 December 2018. Picture: Abigail Javier/Eyewitness News.

    Pay back the money, says Ngcukaitobi to medical aid schemes

    He has chaired an inquiry into discrimination against Black, Coloured and Indian health professionals by medical aid schemes, which has released a scathing report on Tuesday.

    571 days ago
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    Interim report: medical aids discriminated against black practitioners

    An interim report released has found that Discovery, Medscheme and GEMS have been unfairly classifying black health professionals as likely to commit fraud.

    572 days ago
  • FILE: President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Picture: @AlsisiOfficial/Twitter

    Egypt leverages 'soft power' through medical aid in pandemic

    The dramatically scored video released last month was Egypt's latest attempt to project soft power globally by sending medical aid to countries that have included China, Italy, Sudan and the United Kingdom.

    822 days ago
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    People urged not to cancel medical aid as lockdown bites into salaries

    Experts have advised citizens to consider options to make premiums cheaper before cancelling their cover.

    849 days ago
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    South Africans urged not to cancel medical aid, gap covers

    Experts said that medical aid and gap covers were likely to be the first things consumers shave-off during tough economic times.

    849 days ago
  • This handout illustration image obtained 27 February 2020 courtesy of the National Institutes of Health taken with a transmission electron microscope shows SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, isolated from a patient in the US, as virus particles are shown emerging from the surface of cells cultured in the lab - the spikes on the outer edge of the virus particles give coronaviruses their name, crown-like. Picture: AFP.

    Council: Most medical schemes to cover coronavirus treatment

    Normally, a virus-like the COVID-19 would not be covered under prescribed minimum benefits.

    888 days ago
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    ‘This a real struggle for women’: SA women open up on breast reduction

    Breast reduction surgery could soon be covered by a large medical aid after women shared their experiences on having to pay for the procedure themselves.

    921 days ago
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    DA to submit 80,000 written objections from S. Africans on NHI Bill

    The NHI is the financing system that seeks to provide quality universal health care services to all South Africans to create an equal society.

    993 days ago
  • FILE: Maluleke said black people were among the most vulnerable in the country and have the lowest access to medical aid coverage.Picture: @SAgovnews/Twitter

    Black South Africans among most vulnerable in country - Inequality Trends report

    Statistician-General Risenga Maluleke released the Inequality Trends report for South Africa on Thursday, which found that the country remained one of the most unequal nations in the world.

    1003 days ago
  • FILE: Health Minister Zweli Mkhize added that when government removed the subsidy to fund the NHI, patients would be forced to make use of it. Picture: Louise McAuliffe/EWN.

    Mkhize: Private health care will be harder to afford when the NHI is functional

    Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said that government spent half of its healthcare budget on subsidising some small private health care groups, through medical tax rebates.

    1041 days ago
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    Private healthcare report: Various role players colluded to rob consumers

    The commission’s inquiry has found that health practitioners had been sending patients to private hospitals unnecessarily, just because medical schemes would pay.

    1048 days ago
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    Health professionals: Overhaul 'confusing' medical scheme coding system

    Law firm Elsabe Klink and Associates made representations on Wednesday at the inquiry looking to allegations of racial profiling by medical schemes.

    1088 days ago
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    Medical schemes don't cater for physicians outside cities, inquiry told

    The SAPPF presented evidence at the section 59 inquiry in Centurion, which was looking into allegations of racial profiling in the medical profession.

    1089 days ago
  • By Dr Jack.

    CARTOON: Piling On the Pressure

    By Dr Jack.

    1095 days ago
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    CARTOON: Paying the Price

    By Dr Jack.

    1097 days ago
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    Health Dept: Coding for medical scheme benefits confusing

    The department gave evidence at the Section 59 inquiry into allegations of racial profiling in Centurion.

    1107 days ago
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    No racial profiling happening in medical scheme industry, inquiry told

    The Health Funders Association denied allegations that medical schemes targeted black and Indian health professionals and fraudulently withheld their payments.

    1108 days ago
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