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Genesis Medical Scheme announces lowest contribution increase for 2015

17 September 2014

Genesis Medical Scheme is confident to announce that its 2015 average contribution increase of only 5.3%* will once again lead the industry as the lowest average increase coupled with substantial benefit increases for the third consecutive year.

New medical scheme research released: answers and yet more questions for the future of South Africa’s healthcare system

08 September 2014

• Findings show the critical role of the medical scheme industry in access to healthcare. • Medical schemes’ total spend on private hospitals in South Africa has decreased by 0.8% in real terms. • Schemes need to attract or sustain better risk profile to avoid a downward spiral and possible failure. • Growth in membership critical: only two medical schemes grew over the period. • Equalisation fund would enable schemes to compete on the quality of delivery of healthcare. • Competition Commission investigation will shed more light on the numbers behind the numbers.

Employers apprehensive about the imminent rise in their healthcare costs

08 September 2014

2015 Medical Scheme Increases: For the employer - It is about the spread of the employees

BHF: Partnerships between schemes and government to reduce costs, improve efficiencies

28 August 2014

Partnerships between the Department of Health and the medical scheme industry are becoming crucial in order to reduce healthcare costs, improve efficiencies and quality, as well as to find ways of addressing the high cost of the Prescribed Minimum Benefits (PMBs), without denying patients the right to catastrophic cover.

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If you had to hazard a guess, when do you reckon the COFI Bill will be signed into law?

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2026, as promised 2027 looks more likely Impossible to say More consultation needed

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