When you decide to take out medical aid cover it is because you’ve thought about what the costs of doctors and specialists would be. You wonder what surgery would cost if you were to land in hospital. Do you know what it would…
Hospital Plans
Info about hospital plans – medical insurance schemes that cover the cost of hospitalisation but not outpatient expanses in South Africa.
Hospital plans are relatively new in South Africa. They have both upsides and downsides.
On the upside, they tend to be a lot cheaper than full medical insurance. But hospital plans do not cover the day to day cost of medicine or visits to a GP or specialists.
Nor, and this is important, do hospital plans cover treatment for cancer that may involve regular and frequent day visits to a hospital. You may need to make separate provision for such dread disease cover.
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