Medical aid rates and private practice costs : the hard facts that expose the unethical rates at which medical aids reimburse doctors

Joseph, Christopher A.; Joseph, Dylan A.

dc.contributor.author	Joseph, Christopher A.
dc.contributor.author	Joseph, Dylan A.
dc.date.accessioned	2016-09-27T08:18:35Z
dc.date.available	2016-09-27T08:18:35Z
dc.date.issued	2016-08-09
dc.description.abstract	This document is designed to briefly explain why a medical aid rate is unreasonably low. It is not only an unethical rate, but has in fact been deemed illegal, not covering cost of practice and dismissed in a court of law in 2009.1 Medical aids, however, continue to ignore this and increase premiums, while simultaneously decreasing the benefits of the practitioner, and of course, keeping what and how they reimburse medical professionals unreasonably low and unethical.	en_ZA
dc.description.department	Surgery	en_ZA
dc.description.librarian	am2016	en_ZA
dc.description.uri	http://reference.sabinet.co.za/sa_epublication/nm_saoj	en_ZA
dc.identifier.citation	Joseph, CA & Joseph, DA 2016, 'Medical aid rates and private practice costs : the hard facts that expose the unethical rates at which medical aids reimburse doctors', SA Ophthalmology Journal, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 8-9.	en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn	2218-8304
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2263/57035
dc.language.iso	en	en_ZA
dc.publisher	New Media Publishing	en_ZA
dc.rights	©New Media Publishing 2016	en_ZA
dc.subject	Medical aid rate	en_ZA
dc.subject	Unethical rate	en_ZA
dc.subject	Court of law	en_ZA
dc.subject	Practitioner	en_ZA
dc.title	Medical aid rates and private practice costs : the hard facts that expose the unethical rates at which medical aids reimburse doctors	en_ZA
dc.type	Article	en_ZA