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AARON MOTSOALEDI

Minister wants to stop patient rip-offs

Mia Malan speaks to the health minister and others in the healthcare sector about the guideline tariffs

  • Mia Malan
6 min read
AARON MOTSOALEDI

Minister wants to stop patient rip-offs

Mia Malan speaks to the health minister and others in the healthcare sector about the guideline tariffs.

  • Mia Malan
6 min read
Cutting costs: The Health Professions Council says the lack of tariff guidelines adds to spiraling healthcare costs.
AARON MOTSOALEDI

Dummies’ guide to medical tariffs

Health professionals are finding the state’s planned guidelines for fees a bitter pill to swallow.

  • Mia Malan
6 min read
‘I pay nearly R1000 a month for my medical aid and it only covers 85% of my out-of-hospital consultation. The higher the charges for consultation
AARON MOTSOALEDI

Doctors overcharge, say our readers

The <em>Mail & Guardian</em> asked readers what they think of doctors’ tariffs in a survey on M&G Online.

  • Bhekisisa Team
  • Mia Malan
10 min read
HEALTH PROFESSIONS COUNCIL OF SOUTH AFRICA

Wouter Basson denies unprofessional conduct

While he might have been part of the apartheid government’s secret chemical and biological warfare programme, he did not act unprofessionally, Wouter Basson said on Monday.…

  • Louis Oelofse
4 min read