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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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