High Court rules on regulator’s bid to stop prepaid healthcare vouchers
The Registrar believes the products sold by Netcare Plus and Discovery Health constitute the business of a medical scheme.
The Registrar believes the products sold by Netcare Plus and Discovery Health constitute the business of a medical scheme.
Preliminary data released by the Council for Medical Schemes highlights key trends in the industry last year.
The Fund explains why it believes it is not in contempt of court.
The Council for Medical Schemes has withdrawn a directive for Discovery to retract its communication about contribution and benefit changes for 2024.
Discovery has lodged an appeal against a Council for Medical Schemes directive to retract communication to members about its 2024 contribution and benefit changes.
South Africa’s ‘Big Five’ medical schemes have published their 2024 contribution increases, and members should prepare to pay significantly more for cover.
There are concerns that members with Saver plans will experience severe cuts to the allocations to their medical savings accounts.
Discovery Health, Bonitas, and Momentum Solutions say ‘increasing financial pressures’ are the reason for the contribution increases.
The fund says there is an ‘unholy alliance’ between the Council for Medical Schemes and the administrator to ‘misinform’ medical scheme members.
The Road Accident Fund’s directive is not in line with the Medical Schemes Act, the regulator says.
The induction programme takes place online over two days.
The regulator says the funds should be returned to the affected medical scheme members.
The latest round of litigation between the Board of the Healthcare Funders and the CMS over low-cost medical schemes.
Members must be protected from further financial distress and the risk of losing their health insurance, the regular says.
Allowing cheap health insurance will avoid the need to raise additional taxes during the initial phase of NHI.
Medical schemes industry body says it did not receive all the documents it requested for its case against the regulator.
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