Financial services group highlights the role of the private sector for NHI to work
Adrian Gore says private sector funding is essential to maintain the quality of the healthcare system.
Low-Cost Benefit options
People’s expenses change in retirement. Shouldn’t their income too?
Conventional wisdom says that living expenses rise uniformly with inflation, so many financial plans are based simply on that. But analysing the spending patterns of retirees shows us that the data tells a different story.
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Medical schemes body loses urgent contempt-of-court application against CMS
The latest round of litigation between the Board of the Healthcare Funders and the CMS over low-cost medical schemes.
Momentum Health weighs in on low-cost benefit options
Allowing cheap health insurance will avoid the need to raise additional taxes during the initial phase of NHI.
CMS must provide BHF with a complete record of decisions on low-cost benefit options
Medical schemes industry body says it did not receive all the documents it requested for its case against the regulator.
Fix the issues, don’t fight them
There is a particularly apt old African saying: When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers. In his opening address at the 2022 Board of Healthcare Funders annual conference, the Minister of […]
CMS to take action against actuary over comments about low-cost benefit options
The Council for Medical Schemes (CMS) says it will be taking action against Insight Actuaries & Consultants joint-chief executive Christoff Raath following his comments about low-cost benefit options (LCBOs) on 19 May. The […]
BHF criticises CMS for not updating PMBs and lack of movement on low-cost benefits
The failure by the Council for Medical Schemes (CMS) to review the prescribed minimum benefits (PMBs) regularly is making private healthcare unaffordable for millions of people, according to the Board of Healthcare Funders […]
‘Low-cost benefit framework could give a third of South Africans access to basic private health care’
Up to 20 million low-income South Africans could afford basic private healthcare services if the Council for Medical Schemes (CMS) developed a framework for low-cost benefit options (LCBO), according to Business Day. The […]
Industry update on requirements for insurers conducting the business of a medical scheme
The Council for Medical Schemes has released Circular 22 of 2021 that relates to revised exemption conditions to Circular 56 of 2020 which was published following the outcome of the renewal exemption applications […]
