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Robust cost-containment strategies crucial to fight healthcare inflation

30 March 2017 | Medical Schemes

Escalating healthcare inflation and costs are one of the key concerns facing the medical scheme industry. Bonitas Medical Fund believes that the only way forward is rigorous negotiations premised on strategic purchasing and the development of advanced managed care protocols.

CMS welcomes ruling on defamation matter brought by Genesis medical scheme

30 March 2017 | Medical Schemes

The Council for Medical Schemes (CMS), is pleased with the High Court judgment on the defamation matter brought against it by the Genesis medical scheme.

Oneplan Health Insurance launches Air Angels in partnership with Bryte Insurance and ER24

22 March 2017 | General

Affordable, emergency helicopter services now available to South Africans.

Making sense of primary healthcare demarcation regulations

07 March 2017 | General

There has been some confusion around primary healthcare products and the possibility of them being discontinued. “In terms of the Draft Demarcation Regulations recently gazetted, these products have been thrown a lifeline by virtue of a 2-year exemption,” says John Cranke, Principal: Midlands Employee Benefits at PSG Wealth. “This allows for the Council for Medical Schemes to implement guidelines for Low Cost Benefit Options, and lightens concerns some employers may have about offering these products to lower income earners.”

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