The Council for Medical Schemes (CMS) has provided little clarity about the nature of its price-fixing complaint against specialists, the South African Medical Association (Sama) argued at the Competition Tribunal on Tuesday. Advocate Shem Syman SC, for Sama, picked apart the CMS’s evidence of price-fixing among specialists, saying it was unclear what the regulator was complaining about. The CMS, which regulates the country’s medical schemes industry, has been locked in the long-running dispute with Sama since 2012. Syman said the CMS could not deliver a sound argument and relied on the Competition Commission’s reluctance to ignore the case. He said Sama wanted the tribunal to dismiss the complaint because the CMS had failed to present compelling evidence of price-fixing. Lake said that contrary to Sama’s assertions that there was not enough information to make a case, the CMS had addressed Sama’s request for more information on a number of occasions. The main cause of the dispute i...
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