
Medical schemes call on Parliament to order RAF to settle claims
The Health Funders Association asks the Standing Committee on Public Accounts to direct the Fund to cease legal action relating to its directives.

The Health Funders Association asks the Standing Committee on Public Accounts to direct the Fund to cease legal action relating to its directives.

The Health Funders Association, which represents nearly half of SA’s private healthcare market, is the latest organisation to launch a legal challenge against the NHI Act.

The Competition Tribunal has dismissed key objections from major pathology laboratories, moving the medical schemes closer to having their damages claim heard in the High Court.

The change is aimed at making the financial information of insurers more easily comparable across countries and industries.

Solidarity and AfriForum are the first out of the starting blocks with legal challenges to the NHI Act.