A website upgrade and an active and interactive presence on Facebook and LinkedIn has Profmed, the medical scheme for graduate professionals, talking to young, internet-savvy professionals.
19 Oct 2011 08:17TopMed has announced an average weighted increase of 9.96% for 2012. This is coupled with an improved range of options that have been developed in direct response to requests from the medical scheme's members.
11 Oct 2011 09:25A new medical tax credit will come into force in March 2012, replacing the existing medical aid cap amount. This will give employees more deductions and provide extra benefits for the disabled, who currently qualify for the same cap amount as everyone else for PAYE purposes.
5 Oct 2011 15:00The legal dispute over Prescribed Minimum Benefits (PMBs) could be just the revitalising shake up the industry needs says Mark Arnold, principal officer of Resolution Health Medical Scheme (RHMS). A ruling in the court case between the Council for Medical Schemes (CMS) and the Board of Healthcare Funders (BHF) regarding what schemes must pay for PMBs, is expected later this month before the court goes into recess.
4 Oct 2011 12:03PRETORIA: A tax to fund government's National Health Insurance (NHI) will not be introduced in the short term, says deputy director of general public finance in the national treasury, Andrew Donaldson.
23 Sep 2011 15:59The recent statements by the Registrar for Medical Schemes indicating that solvency levels of medical schemes are decreasing have sewn confusion and uncertainty amongst medical scheme members, says the Board of Healthcare Funders (BHF), the industry representative body for medical schemes.
21 Sep 2011 09:40A huge corruption scandal may be exposed after the Hawks raided Hosmed and Commed (Community Medical Aid Scheme) amid allegations that independent trustees had colluded with officials from the Council for Medical Schemes to swindle medical aid members.
19 Sep 2011 13:30
Metropolitan Health, the health division of MMI Holdings Ltd, has been reappointed as administrator of the Government Employees Medical Scheme (GEMS), reputedly South Africa's fastest growing medical scheme.
14 Sep 2011 09:45
Comments about private hospitals made by the Council for Medical Schemes (CMS) in its 2010/2011 annual report are inappropriate and arguably intent on being divisive says the Hospital Association of South Africa (HASA).
9 Sep 2011 13:41
[Graham Anderson] Dental care is one of the most often neglected aspects of healthcare, simply because people don't like to go to the dentist and because looking after their teeth just never seems like a medical emergency. Make an effort to maintain your good dental health - it's worth it.
8 Sep 2011 11:27
According to a report in
Times Live medical aid members are being ripped off by having to pay "salaries" for their scheme's trustees.
7 Sep 2011 11:45Health insurer Discovery Holdings has reported operating profits of almost R2,84-billion for the year to June and its normalised headline earnings per share increased by 31% to 365,8 cents a share according to a report published in Business Report.
1 Sep 2011 12:54
The existing payments made to medical aid funds will be used to determine the amount that individual's pay for National Health Insurance according to an article published by
Fin24.
25 Aug 2011 07:53
An increasing number of smokers in South Africa have considered quitting the habit as a result of more stringent legislation governing smoking in public places as well as the increasing cost. However, if these same people have actually given up smoking up to one or two years ago they may be overpaying for their life insurance by failing to inform their provider of the change in their status.
24 Aug 2011 08:42
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