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There has been an unprecedented structural shift in disease patterns, which has highlighted unequal access to healthcare
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Stifling the private healthcare industry could see it shift resources to foreign operations, placing greater strain on the public sector, a consulting company said on Thursday. Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang announced in Parliament on Wednesday that unregulated private healthcare cannot be sustained.
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/ 29 February 2008
Private hospitals have rejected the minister of health’s call for CPIX (consumer inflation less mortgage costs) to be used as a benchmark for their tariff increases. ”CPIX is not an accurate benchmark of healthcare costs,” the Hospital Association of South Africa said in a statement on Friday.
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/ 28 January 2008
Private hospitals have disputed claims that they make exorbitant profits. ”The private hospital sector … offers the lowest returns on invested capital in the healthcare chain system,” the Hospital Association of South Africa said on Monday. Chief executive Kurt Worrall-Clare said the profitability of a business could not be evaluated by looking at its income alone.
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/ 28 January 2008
Private hospitals are committed to making their facilities accessible and affordable to the public at large, the Hospital Association of South Africa (Hasa) said on Monday. ”The assumption that only medical-aid beneficiaries consult in the private sector is inaccurate,” said Kurt Worrall-Clare, Hasa CEO.
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/ 15 January 2008
The threat of prosecution at a high-powered meeting with Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang forced private hospital groups to commit to reconsidering their annual tariff increases last Friday, Business Report said on Tuesday. The Health Department warned hospital groups to comply with the law when charging for anaesthetic gases, or face prosecution.
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/ 11 January 2008
The Department of Health will continue holding discussions with private health-sector groups to ”reconsider” the matter of increased hospital tariffs, Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang said on Friday. Addressing journalists in Pretoria, Tshabalala-Msimang said all parties were willing to reconsider the matter.