The Board of Healthcare Funders (BHF) was successful in its application to the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria this week to overturn the moratorium that prohibits medical schemes from providing low-cost benefit options (LCBOs) to those who cannot afford full medical scheme membership.
The BHF represents most of the country’s medical schemes and health-care funders, representing schemes and administrators with nearly 4.5 million beneficiaries. The Council for Medical Schemes (CMS), the Registrar of Medical Schemes and the minister of health were cited as the first, second and third respondents, respectively.
