Metro FM Talk with Ayabonga CaweUNDER THE MICROSCOPE | Adv Tembeka Ngcukaitobi Chair of the investigation panel
UNDER THE MICROSCOPE
Medical Aid racial profiling
Medical schemes and administrators are 1.4 times more likely to conclude black healthcare practitioners have committed fraud, waste or abuse than their nonblack counterparts, according to the interim findings of an investigation into racial profiling commissioned by the industry regulator.The interim report was released this morning.
The investigation was launched in 2019 by the Council for Medical Schemes (CMS) in terms of section 59 of the Medical Schemes Act, after complaints by black medical practitioners that they were being unfairly targeted.
To speak to us
Adv Tembeka Ngcukaitobi
Chair of the investigation panel
Medical Aid racial profiling
Medical schemes and administrators are 1.4 times more likely to conclude black healthcare practitioners have committed fraud, waste or abuse than their nonblack counterparts, according to the interim findings of an investigation into racial profiling commissioned by the industry regulator.The interim report was released this morning.
The investigation was launched in 2019 by the Council for Medical Schemes (CMS) in terms of section 59 of the Medical Schemes Act, after complaints by black medical practitioners that they were being unfairly targeted.
To speak to us
Adv Tembeka Ngcukaitobi
Chair of the investigation panel
