The Road Accident Fund (RAF) accuses Discovery Health CEO of issuing a ‘misleading statement’.
RAF CEO Collins Letsoalo says the high court set aside a directive that dealt broadly with past medical expenses paid by medical schemes issued internally to RAF employees. Photo: iStock
This directive was declared unlawful by the High Court in Pretoria on 27 October 2022 following an urgent application launched by Discovery Health. Letsoalo said the RAF has “for more than a year now amended that position, in the directive, to assessing each claim on its merits and reject the payment of prescribed minimum benefits and emergency medical conditions ”.
“One will note that this was a departure from the 12 August 2022 directive, which was set aside by the North Gauteng High Court, a decision upheld by the Supreme Court of Appeal.Attempts to obtain comment from Discovery Health on the latest claims made by the RAF were unsuccessful. Letsoalo said it is apparent from the Constitutional Court order that nowhere did it uphold any decision by the high court or SCA.
Letsoalo said National Treasury further clarifies these in the explanatory memorandum when it states: