Healthcare / Medical Schemes

Maximise Prescribed Minimum Benefits

Thinking about medical aid is enough to give anyone a headache. The jargon, T&Cs and the dreaded co-payments. One term that all medical aids undoubtedly use is Prescribed Minimum Benefits (PMBs), but it is another grey area that many people are not too clued up on.

Circular 37 of 2021: Discovery Health Medical Scheme and Quantum Medical Aid Society merge

The Council for Medical Schemes (CMS) hereby confirms that Discovery Health Medical Scheme and Quantum Medical Aid Society will merge with effect from 1 August 2021.

Medical schemes under fire, yet again…

Local medical schemes are increasingly in the firing line as the Council for Medical Schemes (CMS), Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) and other industry stakeholders clear the way for a fast-tracked National Health Insurance (NHI) implementation. Schemes face a never-ending barrage of criticism from the media, members and the regulators; and one might be excused for concluding they can do no right in the current healthcare environment.

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