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National Health Insurance — reports of a potential truce are greatly exaggerated
3+ hour, 53+ min ago (986+ words) Amid ongoing legal battles over the National Health Insurance, hopes for a truce dwindle as political motives complicate negotiations on universal healthcare. There were hopes last week that there could be a truce in the nine court cases brought by…...
Regulator probe and public uproar spare 16,507 Discovery Health members from a R125m billing error
6+ day, 4+ hour ago (716+ words) Discovery Health's systems hiccup turned routine claims into nasty "you owe us' notices for 16,507 members, with some demands climbing toward R80,000. After MediCheck lit the fuse and the Council for Medical Schemes began asking questions, Discovery has backtracked, promising refunds and…...
Discovery Health gives you another reason to hate your medical scheme
6+ day, 5+ hour ago (898+ words) In the middle-class story of the holidays, what made Discovery Health's reimbursement error utterly bizarre was that it publicly defended its flawed legal stance when it never had a case. I'm not sure how your first day back at the…...