The Board of Healthcare Funders is proposing the mechanism cover 25 of the most expensive medicines per beneficiary per year
One of SA’s key industry associations for medical schemes has proposed setting up a special fund to share the risk of covering extremely expensive medicines, such as those used to treat Gaucher’s syndrome and Cushing’s disease.
The aim is to buffer schemes from financial shocks that could force them to significantly increase premiums, and provide patients with a standardised approach to costly treatments regardless of which scheme they belong to...A subscription helps you enjoy the best of our business content every day along with benefits such as articles from our international business news partners; ProfileData financial data; and digital access to the Sunday Times and TimesLive Premium.
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