Healthcare

Critical questions for the National Health Insurance

It’s not about the money, but it’s all about the price tag

Affordable cancer care is a delicate and complex balancing act which impacts patient, practitioner and pockets.

Medical aid fraud, waste and abuse

The financial burden of fraud, wastage, abuse and irregular practices that are committed in the private healthcare sector are estimated to add as much as R22 billion per year to the overall annual cost of private healthcare in South Africa as a whole. Dr Bobby Ramasia, Principal Officer of Bonitas Medical Fund, talks about fraud, wastage and abuse and explains how sophisticated systems have been introduced by Bonitas to combat this.

CMS releases annual report confirming healthy state of the medical schemes

The Council for Medical Schemes (CMS), regulator of the medical schemes industry, released its Annual Report for 2015-2016 today (14 October), which includes the most comprehensive report on the private medical schemes industry in South Africa.