CMS to scrap low-cost benefit options
In a surprising move, the Council for Medical Schemes has announced that all Low-Cost Benefit Options (LCBOs) used by low-income earners in the country...
Prompt payment, CON issues addressed by NHI’s Crisp
Practitioners
will be paid in real time, no real need for a Certificate of Need, and services
will have to push ahead without a patient records...
Immediate, shorter-term answers to current difficulties required: ASAIPA NHI Submission
A more
immediate or shorter-term answer to the difficulties currently faced in the
provision of healthcare must be prioritised, the Alliance of SA Independent
Practitioner Associations (ASAIPA)...
Digital health. Where did it all start?
This is the second article in a series on digital innovation in the medical field and how it will affect, improve and change medical...
Last week’s HPCSA investigation alert ‘old news’: DoH
The Department of Health has issued a statement advising that the information doing the rounds on social media during past week about the Health...
NHI supported in principle but contradictions in Bill need to be...
If government wants private stakeholders to accept its NHI plans as set out in the recently released NHI Bill and collaborate with it to...
OPINION: No mandatory requirement for South Africans to join Fund under...
The publication of the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill has resulted in much public comment as to the future of healthcare in South Africa.
The...
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Impromptu responses to NHI Bill
https://medbriefafrica.co.za/impromptu-responses-to-nhi-bill/
NHI model will harm entire healthcare system: SAPPF
https://medbriefafrica.co.za/nhi-model-will-harm-entire-healthcare-system-sappf/
Health Minister and DA square off on NHI Bill
https://medbriefafrica.co.za/health-minister-and-da-square-off-on-nhi-bill/
President acknowledges receipt of medico-legal...
Upcoming System enhancements- Rules relating to billing guidelines
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Smart usage of captured data key to effective health system
The sharing of trends and data is one of the most overlooked elements
when it comes to developing an effective healthcare system.
“There is an...
PCNS warns about scam
The Private Code Numbering System (PCNS) is warning all healthcare professionals that the BHF's name has recently been used falsely to send SMS’s to PCNS...
Schemes’ forensic units ‘laws unto themselves’: IPAF
The Independent Practitioner Association Foundation of South Africa (IPAF), in a firmly worded position statement* on fraud and alleged racism by medical schemes just...
Recordkeeping and the value of the mundane
The recent judgment (on 7 May 2019) of
the Gauteng High Court in amongst others, Viviers and MEC for Health Gauteng,
is unexceptionable on the facts...
Collaboration needed to stabilise system
Collaboration
between associated service providers to the country’s healthcare personnel and
needs in general is critical, particularly in an environment under transition
such as that being experienced...
Insurance company, co-operative bank join forces to fill private practice security...
Well-known global professional services organisation, Aon, and Medicoop,
a co-operative bank dedicated to the exclusive needs of healthcare
professionals, have entered into an agreement to jointly...
CMS announces details of probe into medical schemes
The Council for Medical Schemes (CMS) says it hopes its
probe into allegations of unethical conduct by medical schemes against medical practitioners
will solve the issue...
SIU probe into HPCSA welcomed
The HPCSA has welcomed the probe by the Special
Investigating Unit (SIU) into the Council. In a notice in the Government
Gazette on Friday, President Cyril...
Ethics key to professional healthcare in SA
South African healthcare is currently under severe pressure
due to a steady increase in the number of incidents of medical malpractice that
almost inevitably resulted in...