Johannesburg – Medical specialists are charging up to 300% more than the amounts medical aid schemes allow, according to Sunday’s Rapport newspaper. The allegation was reportedly contained in a submission that the Board of Healthcare Funders (BHF) would make to the Competition Commission’s inquiry into the private health industry.
In its submission, the board said specialists fees – especially those of orthopaedic surgeons, cardiac and lung surgeons, anaesthetists, oncologists and pathologists – were sometimes up to 300% higher than medical aid schemes.
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