We will assist in making your healthcare experience more affordable

South Africa is no longer a pariah in the world, our economic growth and expansion in all areas of the country has brought an exciting array of opportunities as well as challenges. One of the areas where we rank in the top 10 in the world is our private healthcare system. South African health care professionals are as good as those found in first world countries like Britain and America. However, with the positive also comes the negative - the South African private healthcare system is amongst the most expensive in the world. Medical cost containment has become essential to ensure that people still benefit from our world class facilities.

There are many factors that necessitate medical cost containment, unfortunately the only active role players that are constantly trying to facilitate this are the various medical schemes in the country.

Who or what is driving medical costs up

The biggest factor in the rising cost of medical care is new technologies. During the past few years the world has seen the rise of biologics - an exciting new type of medicine that alters the being of the disease and brings about quick results where older generation medicines mainly assisted with the symptoms of certain degenerative diseases. However, how exciting these medicines might be, they are extremely expensive and treatment for one patient can run into thousands of rand.

Another factor for medical cost containment is hospitals. We have all seen recent media reports highlighting the massive increases hospitals have implemented some as high as 30% than last year.

GPs and specialists have also upped their tariffs exponentially which causes massive pressure on medical schemes whose aim it is to make private healthcare accessible and affordable for the general public.

Interhealth Technologies have been in the medical management industry for a number of years and we have a vast amount of knowledge and understanding for these factors. We will assist you with your medical cost containment, especially in terms of hospital procedures; from admission till after you have been discharged. Contact us today to find out how we can use our knowledge of medical cost containment to assist you.

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