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Medical schemes set for vaccine rollout


Medical schemes set for vaccine rollout
By Given Majola
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DURBAN - SOUTH Africa’s medical aid schemes have also set aside funds to finance the country’s much-expected Covid-19 vaccine rollout.
The country’s biggest medical aid scheme, Discovery Health, said that the sector had ring-fenced at least R7 billion to ensure that its members received the vaccine as soon as it was made available in South Africa.
For Discovery’s members the vaccine has now been made a prescribed minimum benefit, which means all medical aid schemes in the country are now obliged to fund the cost of vacination for their members. ....

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14 million people – with and without medical aid – could access Covid-19 vaccine


At least 14 million adults in the country could have access to the Covid-19 vaccine by the second quarter of this year following an agreement signed by medical aid companies and national government to fund the vaccines.
This will include 7 million medical scheme members and an equal number of citizens who do not have medical aid cover.
According to Discovery Health whose membership represents about 6.5% of all South Africans, medical schemes have agreed to support a pricing arrangement for the vaccines which ensures that a surplus is generated to purchase the vaccines that can be used to cross-subsidise higher risk non-medical scheme members. ....

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