It is Cyril Ramaphosa’s job to ensure that South African government policy will work, regardless of party affiliation. The government has proved incompetent at managing public service organisations, so why should the NHI work? A new report reveals worrying facts. New report –…
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Duduza Khosana is just another failure. As curator for the South African Municipal Workers’ Union Medical Aid Scheme (Samwumed), she has misused the scheme’s money. She pillaged the fund to pay for her jet-set lifestyle and to pay herself an enormous salary. She…
South Africans are in despair. Not only is crime on the increase but pretty much everything else too. As 2018 draws to a close, medical aid members brace themselves for medical aid increases 2019. This when they are still trying to adjust to…
If the authorities don’t want to take harsh steps to curb crime, then expect crime to get worse. And it is the same with medical aid fraud. This particular crime is on the rise. Millions are lost to services and products that were…
In the medical aid industry, there are whistle-blowers who alert medical aids to fraud and abuse of medical aid funds. One particular leading medical scheme reveals how they received no less than 1 500 calls from these whistle-blowers, alerting them to fraudulent claims.…
The South African Municipal Workers Union Medical Scheme (Samwumed) has always enjoyed financial health. It has had a solvency ratio 4x the statutory minimum of 25%. Now however, the scheme is facing a host of problems. And labour union conflict is putting the…
Following Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi’s comments last year regarding the proposed removal of the medical expense tax credit in order to fund the National Health Insurance (NHI), medical aid members will have found some relief in yesterday’s Budget Speech which still accommodates this…
Bonitas Medical Fund was recently awarded the Ask Afrika Orange Index for service excellence. This makes it a hat trick for the Fund this year. Earlier this year Bonitas received both the Kasi Star Brand Award and the ICON Brands Survey award. The…
Do Tax credits and the NHI leave the Future of Medical Schemes in Jeopardy? Yes, Motsoaledi is consistently griping about inequality of access to healthcare for the majority of South Africans As health minister he says the government shouldn’t be giving medical aid…
There was criticism of the the doom and gloom mini budget speech in Cape Town on 25th October 2017. Finance Minister, Malusi Gigaba, himself has said that the speech was a reality check. He went on to say that you can’t tell South…