Health Market Inquiry, originally due in December 2016, postponed yet again
The Competition Commission says the postponement is to allow experts sufficient time to deal with issues raised by stakeholders
The Competition Commission’s Health Market Inquiry (HMI) has announced yet another delay in the publication of its provisional report, pushing out the deadline by a month until May 31. The inquiry was established to investigate the dynamics in the private healthcare market and to determine whether there are barriers to competition and patient access. The commission was originally due to publish its interim HMI report in August 2016 and a final report and recommendations by mid-December, but extended these deadlines by a year due to delays in getting data from medical schemes and private hospitals. In November 2017, it extended the deadlines into 2018, saying at the time that the large hospital groups and medical scheme administrator Discovery Health had requested access to the underlying data that underpinned its preliminary analysis reports. The commission said on Thursday that it had delayed publication once again to allow its experts sufficient time to deal with the issues raised...
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