Medical Aids
latest news & developments
Bonitas – Investing in your health
Lee Callakoppen, Principal Officer of Bonitas Medical Fund, guides you on how to choose the best medical aid plan
Bonitas – innovation, life stages and quality care
Lee Callakoppen, Principal Officer of Bonitas Medical Fund, talks about the year ahead for Bonitas Medical Scheme and its members
Navigating the challenges and opportunities in South Africa’s private healthcare sector
Preventive healthcare is essential to improve health outcomes, lower long-term costs, and boost survival rates
Medical cover companies up their game in competitive market
Healthcare cover is a very personal choice
Why medical aids are putting the price of a safe delivery on some women’s pockets
When medical schemes and the law count conceiving as a pre-existing condition, pregnant women lose.
Too much of a good thing: SA’s epidemic of over-treatment is paying off for hospitals
Is a lack of competition fuelling unnecessary care at your expense?
Health department expects to be sued over proposed NHI changes
‘I can’t mention who are the parties I am expecting litigation from but I can assure I know who they are.’
Medical aids may know their fate by 2020 under the National Health Insurance
Government and medical aids may be uncomfortable but necessary bedfellows.
[WATCH] Will the National Health Insurance cost you more money?
Can SA afford the NHI? And will you be able to keep seeing your doctor? Our Laura Lopez Gonzalez answers these and other questions.
Hundreds of protestors descend on DTI’s Pretoria offices demanding access to affordable medicines
Think paying your medical aid premiums every month ensures you access to the drugs you need when you get sick? Think again.
Making healthy medical aid choices
South Africa’s healthcare landscape is divided between a public and private- sector.
Getting to grips with your scheme’s lingo
Co-payment This is the portion of any medical expense for which you are liable. The amount varies from one scheme to the next and between options.
State health claims ‘a myth’
There will be no private medical schemes in a decade or so, Minister Aaron Motsoaledi told a National Editors’ Forum gathering in Cape Town recently.
Ensure your medical aid is not unwell
The proposed National Health Insurance has resulted in much being written about the state of the nation’s public health sector.
Fixing health care
There are few subjects more emotive than medical schemes. Open the subject at any gathering and you’re likely to get a tsunami of complaints.