Gap-cover health insurance under scrutiny. THE government is tightening the noose on companies selling “gap-cover” health insurance, hoping it can stabilise the medical schemes market and ensure better consumer protection by scrapping all but a few tightly defined products. Last Friday the Treasury published draft regulations to both the Long-term and Short-term Insurance Acts, [...]
You and your Medical Aid
You and your Medical Aid. Read your Medical Scheme’s/Fund’s Benefit Guide and familiarise yourself with what Oncology Benefits you are entitled to on the Benefit Option that you have chosen. Breast Cancer is a PMB Condition, which means that all associated costs from the time of diagnosis related to your condition should be reimbursed [...]
Medical cover may not be enough
Your cancer cover may not be enough. Saturday Star – 11 June 2011. One in seven men and one in eight women in South Africa will suffer from cancer during their lives, the most recent National Cancer Registry statistics show. With such a high chance that you could contract this dread disease, it [...]
Medical Schemes Act
PRESCRIBED MINIMUM BENEFITS AND THE MEDICAL SCHEMES ACT. Medical Schemes keep very quiet about the benefits in regard to cancer. It is important to note in regard to various forms of cancer that compulsory cover only exists for “treatable” cancers – see the document and Annexure A for definitions, but nevertheless, there is some [...]
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