Healthcare providers and your medical scheme need to agree on what they will charge and pay for prescribed minimum benefits (PMBs), to ensure that you, the scheme member, are not left out of pocket for essential medical services, a medical scheme conference heard this week. The proposed amendment to a regulation that requires medical schemes to pay for PMBs could force healthcare providers and schemes to negotiate the pricing of PMBs. Personal Finance reports on the debate over how you could be affected if medical schemes no longer have to pay for PMBs in full.
Also in our weekend print edition:
* Abuse of consumers under administration.
* Belt-tightening is the only way to survive in these hard times.
* How load shedding affects your insurance policy.
Personal Finance is published every Saturday in the Pretoria News Weekend, the Saturday Star, The Independent on Saturday and the Weekend Argus.