BUDGET 2018: No scrapping of medical tax credits, but they will be less in real terms as NHI takes a bigger slice of the pie.

Discovery Health saved over half a billion rands for its client schemes last year

Medical schemes are facing escalating healthcare costs, which they are having to pass on to their members, a study has found.

Discovery and Medihelp the only two schemes with improved customer satisfaction scores

This is the time of year to review your medical scheme benefits and perhaps change options to one more cost-effective for you.

Medical schemes have, in after-inflation terms, slightly reduced the portion of your contributions used to cover non-healthcare expenses.

Another major open medical scheme has announced its increases for next year.

Discovery Health has launched DrConnect, which facilitates the transfer of information between scheme members and their doctors.

Bonitas Medical Fund says its average weighted contribution increase for 2018 will be 8.7%, with increases on options ranging from 7.9% to 9.9%.

Discovery Health Medical Scheme has announced its contribution increases, as well as its product and benefit updates, for 2018.

New healthcare demarcation regulations came into force on April 1, designed to rein in health insurance, including gap cover and hospital cash plans, and ensure it does not compete with medical schemes.

Unnecessary extra services by doctors are eating away at South Africans' medical scheme benefits, a scheme executive says.

No break in cover for members of troubled scheme.

The Government Employees Medical Scheme says it faced numerous challenges last year, including a sharp increase in claims, fraud and anti-selection.

If you are having difficulty in getting a medical scheme claim paid, or if you believe your scheme under-paid a claim, there is a company to which you can turn for help.

Members of the Association for Savings & Investment South Africa report that more than 60% of critical illness claims made by women last year were a result of cancer.