The medical schemes regulator is in urgent talks with seven of SA’s biggest open medical schemes to absorb Health Squared members, who were sent scrambling for alternative cover after it announced on Friday that it was seeking voluntary liquidation.

The stakes are high because the schemes need to balance the interests of their current members against those left stranded by Health Squared’s unprecedented move...

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