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Medical schemes regulator launches enquiry into GEMS

The inquiry comes after reports that the medical scheme allegedly awarded a contract to Activo Health to provide its members with vitamins ....

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Medical schemes regulator boosts patients' rights to choose their pharmacy

Medical schemes regulator boosts patients’ rights to choose their pharmacy
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27 April 2021 - 20:08 Tamar Kahn
The medical schemes regulator has banned the imposition of excessive co-payments on patients who choose health-care providers outside the networks chosen by their medical schemes.
While the move potentially has implications across the private health-care sector, it will bring particular relief to independent pharmacies shut out of these networks and give patients greater choice in where they purchase their medicines.
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Medical aids must cure prejudices

Medical aids must cure prejudices
Sowetan > By Sowetan - 21 January 2021 - 07:41
Think about this: a company advertises employment vacancies for new graduates. A non-negotiable condition is that applicants must own a vehicle, even if the job is not necessarily in transportation.
In the context of inequality in SA, the likelihood is that successful applicants would be from middle class backgrounds and more likely, white.
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Medscheme rejects claims of racial profiling when auditing healthcare claims

Medscheme rejects claims of racial profiling when auditing healthcare claims
The medical aid company has responded to the interim report of the Section 59 investigation panel that was tasked with probing allegations that black, coloured and Indian practitioners were discriminated against and singled out as likely to commit fraud.
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JOHANNESBURG - Medscheme has rejected claims that it applies any form of racial profiling when assessing or auditing healthcare claims.
The medical aid company has responded to the interim report of the Section 59 investigation panel that was tasked with probing allegations that black, coloured and Indian practitioners were discriminated against and singled out as likely to commit fraud. ....

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Scheming against black doctors: Blacklisted black MD feels vindicated

Scheming against black doctors: Blacklisted black MD feels vindicated
Lindile Sifile > By Lindile Sifile - 20 January 2021 - 07:34
A triumphant Dr Nonkosi Ngumbela, who has been blacklisted for almost three years from servicing patients from Medscheme, says she is vindicated after three medical aid schemes were found to have racially profiled black practitioners.
“I’m excited that the truth is finally out but I still have deep anger at how my name had been dragged through the mud by criminals who ran rampant, destroying the lives of many black doctors. Some of my colleagues’ children were so looking forward to following in their parents’ footsteps but have since chosen different career paths because of the frustrations their parents went through,” said Ngumbela, 61, a general practitioner of more than 30 years from East London in the Eastern Cape. ....

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