Lee Callakoppen, Principal Officer of Bonitas Medical Fund, guides you on how to choose the best medical aid plan

Lee Callakoppen, Principal Officer of Bonitas Medical Fund, talks about the year ahead for Bonitas Medical Scheme and its members

Preventive healthcare is essential to improve health outcomes, lower long-term costs, and boost survival rates

Healthcare cover is a very personal choice

When medical schemes and the law count conceiving as a pre-existing condition, pregnant women lose.

Is a lack of competition fuelling unnecessary care at your expense?

‘I can’t mention who are the parties I am expecting litigation from but I can assure I know who they are.’

Government and medical aids may be uncomfortable but necessary bedfellows.

Can SA afford the NHI? And will you be able to keep seeing your doctor? Our Laura Lopez Gonzalez answers these and other questions.

Think paying your medical aid premiums every month ensures you access to the drugs you need when you get sick? Think again.

Co-payment This is the portion of any medical expense for which you are liable. The amount varies from one scheme to the next and between options.

South Africa’s healthcare landscape is divided between a public and private- sector.

There will be no private medical schemes in a decade or so, Minister Aaron Motsoaledi told a National Editors’ Forum gathering in Cape Town recently.

The proposed National Health Insurance has resulted in much being written about the state of the nation’s public health sector.