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.
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.
Medical schemes and administrators now know whether they can continue to claim from the RAF on behalf of their members.
An Alberton mom has won a significant court battle against her medical scheme, forcing it to pay for an expensive drug that her three-year-old son needs to treat a rare inherited genetic disorder. […]
It will cost R59 more to be accredited as a healthcare broker if proposed amendments to regulation 31 of the Medical Schemes Act (MSA) are adopted. The Minister of Health, Dr Joe Phaahla, […]
The Council for Medical Schemes (CMS) is proposing to introduce new guidelines on the appointment of brokers by employers on behalf of employees. In a circular published this week, the CMS said it […]
Regulation 28(2), published in terms of the Medical Schemes Act, now effectively reads as follows: “Subject to sub-regulation (3), the maximum amount payable to a broker by a medical scheme in respect of […]
National Treasury (“NT”) released the Second Draft Demarcation Regulations for further public comment at the end of April. These Regulations specify which types of health insurance policies are permissible under the Long-term Insurance […]