Healthcare / Medical Schemes

LCBO medical schemes like watching paint dry!

The slow grind to a low-cost benefit option (LCBO) medical scheme framework looks set end some time in 2023, if the message in the latest Council for Medical Schemes (CMS) media release can be trusted. In a statement issued just three days before Christmas 2022 the medical schemes regulator promised that draft LCBO Guidelines will see the light of day early in the New Year, which the writer assumes will mean before the end of June.

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