NHI Funding: It s Complicated iafrica.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from iafrica.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
SA would have probably been months ahead if medical schemes led vaccine rollout biznews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from biznews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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.