‘No racial profiling’ by medical schemes

The SA Private Practitioners’ Forum (SAPPF), said it has no evidence that medical schemes are using racial profiling to determine which of their members to investigate for fraud in its submission to the Council for Medical Schemes (CMS). 

Medical schemes ‘overreach’ in probes

 “Medical scheme administrators are overstepping the mark in their fraud investigations into healthcare professionals, straying into the terrain of regulatory authorities and claiming back money they have not proved they are entitled to, according to consultancy firm Elsabé Klinck & Associates.” – Business Day 22 August 2019. 

Medical schemes ‘overreach’ in probes - Business Day, 22 August

“Medical scheme administrators are overstepping the mark in their fraud investigations into healthcare professionals, straying into the terrain of regulatory authorities and claiming back money they have not proved they are entitled to, according to consultancy firm Elsabé Klinck & Associates.” – Business Day 22 August 2019. Klink made a presentation to the Council for Medical Schemes (CMS) inquiry into allegations that medical schemes unfairly target black, Indian and coloured healthcare professionals for forensic investigations

NHI debate ‘fundamentally dishonest’

“The debate over National Health Insurance (NHI) is fundamentally dishonest. On the one side there is a stubborn refusal to face economic reality. On the other, there is a refusal to recognise that the system of unequal access must change,” wrote Stuart Theobald in Business Day (19 August 2019)

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