Medical schemes regulator boosts patients’ rights to choose their pharmacy BL PREMIUM 27 April 2021 - 20:08 Tamar Kahn
The medical schemes regulator has banned the imposition of excessive co-payments on patients who choose health-care providers outside the networks chosen by their medical schemes.
While the move potentially has implications across the private health-care sector, it will bring particular relief to independent pharmacies shut out of these networks and give patients greater choice in where they purchase their medicines.
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