insert_link Business / Economics The Alexforbes Lead Story – 12 December The Namibian Association of Medical Aid Funds recently announced that medical aid tariffs for 2024 would remain unchanged from those of 2023, a move the Namibia Private Practitioners Forum says essentially means a reduction in benefits for fund members. Representative Eben De Klerk tells us more. https://iono.fm/e/1389719 todayDecember 13, 2023 889
insert_link Namibia Namibian Association of Medical Aid Funds says tariffs will remain unchanged going into 2024 The Namibian Association of Medical Aid Funds recently informed the industry that the 2023 tariffs will remain unchanged going into 2024. This effectively amounts to a reduction of member benefits, as funds will not cover members for inevitable medical inflation. Eben de Klerk :Legal Advisor of the Namibia Private Practitioners Forum. todayDecember 13, 2023 27
insert_link Health / Medical No increase in member benefit for 2024 TO ALL: MEDIA PARTNERS, HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS AND MEMBERS OF MEDICAL AID FUNDS The Namibian Association of Medical Aid Funds (NAMAF) sets benchmark tariffs on an annual basis, which tariffs are used by all medical funds to set their member benefits from year to year. NAMAF continues to set these tariffs, despite being provided with a legal opinion from Senior Counsel that the setting of these tariffs by NAMAF does not […] todayNovember 29, 2023 204
insert_link Local The reality of the medical aid fund industry: secrecy, abuse of public power and unregulated BACKGROUND The medical aid fund industry recently informed the public and private sector healthcare providers that medical aid funds are experiencing financial difficulties, in that the funds are experiencing higher than expected claims as from 2022 and are now using past reserves to honour claims. In a presentation by Dr Johann van Zyl, an advisor to the Namibian Association of Medical Aid Funds (NAMAF) the main driver of the recent […] todayNovember 2, 2023 16