A recent interim report by the Council of Medical Schemes has found the claims to be true.
It discovered that black general practitioners were more likely to be identified as committing fraud, waste, and abuse of medical schemes than white GPs.
Section 59 Health Dr Prudence Buthelezi said, “we already know what the medical aids use to do to black health professionals. It was racial profiling…they’d look at the invoice of the patient, when you see more than 50 patients they alert you as fraudulent, ask you time you spent with the patient."
COVID-19 has already been stressful enough for the healthcare practitioners but many couldn’t cope with being discriminated against as well.