Analysis of Medical Scheme Statutory Returns and Council for Medical Scheme Annual Reports over Time
The Council for Medical Schemes (CMS) routinely collects summarised data from medical schemes through the mechanisms of Statutory Returns. The CMS collates this information and publishes the results in the form of an annual report. The collated industry data is relied upon heavily by industry stakeholders, regulators and market commentators. It is therefore critical that […]
International Benchmarking of Hospital Utilisation: How does the South African private hospital sector compare?
The South African private healthcare industry faces significant changes in national health policy which most notably include the likely introduction of National Health Insurance (NHI). The possibility exists that the NHI agency will seek to contract with both public and private healthcare providers (referred to as plurality of provision). DOWNLOAD PDF
A Few Practical Considerations of the Proposed NHI
In this research note, Econex discusses some of the practical issues around the National Health Insurance (NHI) proposal (September 2010). The aim is to facilitate debate around some of the very real practical issues that will have to be fleshed out before implementation of any NHI system. DOWNLOAD PDF