Gap cover for Medical schemes helps to avoid huge medical bills you never expected. Your medical aid plan agrees to pay 100% of your treatment bill. However, this does not relate to the actual fee charged by members of the medical profession. Known as the…
The ever-increasing cost of premiums, coupled with shrinking benefits, has been blamed for the downward spiral of confidence by consumers in the South African medical aid schemes industry. Now in its sixth year, the SA-csi for Medical Schemes has released statistics for 2018.…
Over-insured for medical cover with your medical scheme membership? We think not. In fact, when it comes to medical cover, you can never be over-insured. Modern-day South Africa dictates that without the financial umbrella of gap cover to protect you from unforeseen costs…
Why is pre-authorisation different from pre-payment and do they differ? Medical aid members know that pre-authorisation ahead of a medical procedure is always required but does pre-authorisationmeanit’s an agreement to pay in full? No, not necessarily. This is the cause of a great…
Do you need fast gap insurance and don’t know how to get it? You have come to the right place. Gap insurance here By completing and submitting the form on this page you will be applying for a quote. Please note that in…
Yes, you qualify for immediate gap cover, but only if you belong to a medical aid in South Africa already. Really, it doesn’t matter which medical scheme. So it can be a “closed” medical aid such as Bankmed, GEMS or Polmed, or an…
Gerhard Van Emmenis, Principal Officer of Bonitas Medical Fund talks about pneumonia According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), a child dies from pneumonia every 30 seconds. Which means that around 1.1 million children, under the age of five, die each year. This…
Is there a quick way to get medical aid gap cover? There certainly is. Just complete the short form on this page, then click on the Get Quote button to get a personalised quotation fast. But first, you may have questions about gap…
The exorbitant cost of medical care is forcing more and more South African retirees to either reduce or cut medical cover enirely. But it is this age group of consumers who are most prone to illness and who most need medical cover. It…
The reality is that there are very few South Africans who are financially able to personally foot the bill for their private health costs. In fact, most of the population has to rely on State hospitals and out-patient clinics but these often experience…