Top medical aids are breaking the law, risking lives, claim doctors
26 November 2018 - 07:00 By KATHARINE CHILD
Head of the SA Private Practitioner's Forum Chris Archer. He accuses medical aids of not paying for legally required treatment. Image: Russell Roberts / Financial Mail
Patients' lives are often at risk because their medical aids refuse to pay for their treatment, says professor Chris Joseph, a member of the SA Private Practitioners Forum.
Joseph, an ear, neck and throat surgeon, is one of 3,500 private practice specialists who have complained to the medical aid regulator – the Council for Medical Schemes – about SA’s two largest medical aids, Discovery Medical Scheme and Government Employee Medical Schemes.
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