Gap cover, medical schemes and primary healthcare plans are shifting costs between one another, undermining efforts to contain healthcare spending, actuaries have warned. Four Medscheme actuaries presented the findings at the Actuarial Society of South Africa convention in Cape Town. PMBs squeeze other benefits According to senior actuarial analyst Elizabeth Greyling, prescribed minimum benefits (PMBs) accounted for 70% of healthcare…
Gap Cover Undermines Scheme Cost Controls
