The “startling costs” of South African private healthcare is at the heart of the Competition Commission’s Health Market Inquiry (HMI) draft report released in July. While cost is a key theme, the report also describes a sector lacking the vital force of authentic, robust competition.
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The Private healthcare industry needs to change
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Medical Aid Fraud:- Audiologist convicted of 259 counts
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Earlier this month, Wandile Theophilus Mashego, an audiologist and speech therapist practising in Pretoria, was found guilty of 259 counts of medical aid fraud and one count for contravening Section 66 of the Medical Schemes Act.
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Market concentration is plaguing South Africa’s private healthcare market
‘Beste’ mediese skema wen met eenvoud, waarde
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Medihelp is nou die mediese skema waarmee lede die meeste tevrede is. Lede van mediese skemas is egter in die geheel beskou effens minder tevrede met hul produk as ’n jaar gelede. Die tevredenheid van lede van Discovery Health Medical Scheme en van Bonitas het albei gedaal. Dis onder die bevindings van die South African..
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Do you really think you’re going to opt out of the NHI when it comes?
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If the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill is passed in its current form, the NHI will be compulsory, regardless of whether you also belong to a private medical aid. So, opting out won’t be possible.
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How competitive is South Africa’s private healthcare sector?
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After a four and a half year probe initiated by South Africa’s Competition Commission, a panel of independent experts released their preliminary report into the country’s private healthcare market.
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Eerste tenders vir omstrede nasionale gesondheidsversekering uitgereik
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Die eerste tenders vir die omstrede nasionale gesondheidsversekering (NGV) is uitgereik. Die departement van gesondheid soek voorstelle van die private sektor oor hoe om vyf programme – sommiges wat tans katastrofies deur staatshospitale behartig word – reg te ruk. Net drie van die land se grootste administrateurs van mediese fondse het opgedaag vir die inligtingsessie..
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The big question:- Why South Africa needs to discipline the private healthcare industry
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If a service is provided by a company rather than government, this does not automatically mean a market is at work. The point is fairly obvious but has passed many in South Africa by.
Private provision of services is moving into the spotlight in South Africa as the government looks to make the health system more accessible to the poor. One aspect is the Health Market Inquiry,
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Pharma’s role in the government’s National Health Insurance
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In its current form, the proposed National Health Insurance (NHI) is by no means perfect and there remains a lot of uncertainty around funding, medical skills shortages, the role medical aids will play and how infrastructural problems, wastage and corruption in the public sector will be tackled.
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Will the HMI insights get lost in the rush to finalise healthcare laws?
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Has the almost simultaneous release of the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill, the Medical Schemes Amendment Bill and the provisional findings of the Health Market Inquiry (HMI) created an information overload, where some of the insights from the inquiry could be lost in the noise?
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