New law a fiercely contested piece of legislation governing the extent to which medical schemes must cover their members’ bills BOARD of Healthcare Funders (BHF) executive director Humphrey Zokufa on Monday urged the medical schemes industry to fight "to the bitter end" in support of the government’s proposed changes to regulation 8, a fiercely contested piece of legislation governing the extent to which medical schemes must cover their members’ bills.Two weeks ago, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi published draft amendments to the regulations to the Medical Schemes Act, which propose limiting medical schemes’ financial liability for prescribed minimum benefits, changes critics say expose patients to potentially big co-payments for serious illness.The BHF, an industry association for medical schemes and administrators, has lobbied for years for the changes. It says the current rules requiring schemes to pay in full for prescribed minimum benefits regardless of what doctors and hospi...
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