Medscheme and Samwumed extend managed care partnership
Samwumed has announced that it will be extending its partnership with Medscheme to include its medicine management and HIV/Aids disease management programmes.
According to Neil Nair, principal officer of Samwumed, the scheme engaged with Medscheme as its hospital benefit manager in 2015. “Through this partnership the scheme has already yielded positive results in the areas of risk mitigation and in skills transfer.”
Commenting on the HIV/Aids programme, he says that the scheme is keen to ensure both best practice and keeping its members in the best possible treatment regime. “To this end, we have appointed Aid-for Aids – a subsidiary of AfroCentric Health, Medscheme’s holding company to manage our HIV/Aids programme. We are confident that the interventions will ensure that our afflicted members will be provided with a proactive and compassionate intervention.”
Kevin Aron, CEO of Medscheme, says that its managed care services are designed to ensure that healthcare delivery is coordinated in the most efficient manner in order to facilitate care that achieves best possible health outcomes and service experience of members with the resources available.
