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Minister Mombeshora raps Zimbabwe medical aid service providers
Health and Child Care Minister Douglas Mombeshora has criticized medical aid service providers for overcharging and exploiting desperate patients. Speaking at the Association of Healthcare Fun...Published: 06 Sep 2024 at 07:22hrs | 88 | by Staff reporter
HIV and AIDS remain the leading causes of death in Zimbabwe
HIV and AIDS remain the leading causes of death in Zimbabwe, accounting for over 25% of all fatalities.Speaking at the 15th Annual Conference of the Association of Healthcare Funders of Zimbab...Published: 05 Sep 2024 at 12:35hrs | 565 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe medical aid societies defend service charges
MEDICAL aid service providers yesterday said they were forced to make monthly adjustments to the cost of their services as a survival strategy owing to exchange rate disparities.Association of...Published: 16 Sep 2022 at 06:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga threatens to deregister medical aid societies
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga yesterday threatened to deregister errant medical aid societies, accusing them of gross malpractices, failure to abide by the rule book, including abuse of funds an...Published: 27 Aug 2022 at 06:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 overstreches medical aid industry
THE health insurance industry has been overstretched by the COVID-19 pandemic, with statistics indicating that 69% of healthcare funders have experienced a surge in cases of respiratory illnesses attr...Published: 12 Oct 2021 at 06:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe extends Covid-19 vaccination to private sector
Health experts have welcomed the move by the government to extend the Covid-19 vaccination campaign to the private sector saying it would speed up the uptake of the vaccine.As part of the cond...Published: 21 Jul 2021 at 17:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Patients suffer as doctors, medical aid societies clash
A TUSSLE has erupted between medical practitioners in the private sector and medical aid societies, as doctors are accused of turning down policy holders without cash co-payments due to health funders...Published: 19 Mar 2021 at 09:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt acts to avert third wave
AUTHORITIES are concerned about high levels of complacency being displayed by the generality of Zimbabweans since the relaxation of Covid-19 regulations and could reintroduce tighter restrictions and ...Published: 14 Mar 2021 at 06:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Medical aid societies hike fees
Zimbabweans seeking health care will have to fork out more for health insurance as medical aid societies have hiked contributions over the last few months for members paying in local currency. ...Published: 11 Mar 2021 at 06:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe in state of radical uncertainty, says Prof Hawkins
Zimbabwe is in a state of radical uncertainty, economic consultant Tony Hawkins told an Association of Healthcare Funders of Zimbabwe (AHFoZ) all stakeholders webinar on health on Wednesday."I...Published: 29 Oct 2020 at 12:50hrs | | by Agencies
COVID-19 generates numerous scams
COVID-19 scams have included supposed cures, fake testing sites and counterfeit personal protective equipment (PPE), Dr Katlego Mothudi, managing director of the Board of Healthcare Funders, a regiona...Published: 29 Oct 2020 at 12:46hrs | 1 | by Agencies
Outcry over steep medical aid subscriptions
MEDICAL aid companies are in the eye of a storm as policyholders are accusing them of ripping them off through drastic increases in contributions, most of which are wiping out their salaries.D...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 10:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Medical aid companies ripping policyholders off
MEDICAL aid companies are in the eye of a storm as policyholders are accusing them of ripping them off through drastic increases in contributions, most of which are wiping out their salaries.D...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 08:00hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'Medical aid societies should accommodate low income earners'
THE Ministry of Health has challenged medical aid societies to structure their products in such a way that they are affordable to low-income earners, as healthcare costs continue to rise beyond the re...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Health Insurance Bill now at an advanced stage'
HEALTH minister Obadiah Moyo says government is now at an advanced stage in the crafting of a National Health Insurance Bill, which will provide a national health safety net to all citizens.Mo...Published: 12 Jun 2019 at 07:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Funding for Zimbabwe's healthcare now dire
The country's healthcare system has become unsustainable in the face of serious funding challenges and for the umpteenth time, Zimbabweans have to brace for yet another gruelling round of increases in...Published: 29 May 2019 at 08:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cost of dying goes up in Zimbabwe
A NEW wave of price increases has seen hard-pressed Zimbabweans grappling with counting the cost of dying.Funeral insurance companies, hit by a failing local currency, have joined the bandwago...Published: 02 May 2019 at 07:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
AHFoZ calls for stakeholder meeting over healthcare costs
The Association of Healthcare Funders of Zimbabwe (AHFoZ) notes with concern that most service providers and health institutions have introduced or continue charging members co-payments and/or shortfa...Published: 30 Apr 2019 at 09:36hrs | | by Agencies
Medical Aid Societies increase payments for healthcare services
The Association of Healthcare Funders of Zimbabwe has increased the fees payable by its member medical aid societies to healthcare service providers with effect from Monday (February 11).Payme...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 20:04hrs | | by Agencies
Medical practitioners propose steep US$ charges
Zimbabweans should brace for new tariffs from the medical practitioners after a leaked document showed proposed charges pegged in United States dollars.The document, which was widely circulate...Published: 31 Jan 2019 at 10:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Government calls rogue pharmacies to order
GOVERNMENT has directed pharmacies to stop demanding foreign currency from patients for drugs which are now available locally through NatPharm. In an interview at the close of the 67th East, C...Published: 15 Nov 2018 at 05:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
First Mutual engaging Finance Minister for allocation of foreign currency
First Mutual Health Care has said it is engaging Finance minister Mthuli Ncube for the allocation of foreign currency to healthcare service providers for drugs and consumables.This the o...Published: 12 Oct 2018 at 07:30hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
AHFoZ calls on RBZ to urgently allocate forex for healthcare products
The Association of Healthcare Funders of Zimbabwe has expressed concern that there is no mention of healthcare products in the list of strategic imports for which the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe says it ...Published: 08 Oct 2018 at 16:12hrs | | by Agencies
Private hospitals demand co-payments
Patients on medical aid seeking treatment at private hospitals are now required to pay co-payments following an increase by at least 20 percent on all medical costs by some institutions, The Herald re...Published: 07 Aug 2018 at 07:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Stakeholders must work together to curb healthcare fraud
Business Against Crime Forum of Zimbabwe chairman Wilbert Manyika has called on all stakeholders to work together to come up with solutions to the problem of healthcare fraud, which is continuously in...Published: 20 Nov 2017 at 12:28hrs | 1 | by Agencies
'Drugs price increase unjustified'
The association of Healthcare Funders of Zimbabwe (AHFoZ) on Tuesday hit out at pharmacies for the recent arbitrary increase in drug prices by between 30 and 70 percent.Late last m...Published: 17 Oct 2017 at 15:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Govt welcomes scientifically based healthcare tariffs proposal
Deputy Health and Childcare Minister Aldrin Musiiwa has commended the Association of Healthcare Funders of Zimbabwe (AHFoZ) and the Zimbabwe Medical Association (ZiMA) for pursuing a scientifically ba...Published: 10 Sep 2017 at 08:45hrs | | by Agencies
Healthcare stakeholders ponder healthcare ecosystem
The Healthcare Ecosystem and Quality of Life is the theme of this year's Association of Healthcare Funders of Zimbabwe (AHFoZ) Annual Stakeholders' Conference, which takes place at the Kingdom Hotel i...Published: 04 Sep 2017 at 13:41hrs | | by Agencies
Cimas CEO urges journalists to dig deeper in their news reports
Cimas Medical Aid Society chief executive Vulindlela Ndlovu has urged journalists to conduct in depth investigative journalism rather than come up with inadequately researched reports that may end up ...Published: 06 Jun 2017 at 17:36hrs | | by Mike Hamilton
Medical aid societies invite debate on proposed regulatory body
The Association of Healthcare Funders of Zimbabwe (AHFoZ), which represents the country's medical aid societies, is holding a breakfast meeting on Friday (December 9) to discuss the proposed estab...Published: 07 Dec 2016 at 05:10hrs | | by Mike Hamilton
Medical aid societies invite debate on proposed regulatory body
The Association of Healthcare Funders of Zimbabwe (AHFoZ), which represents the country's medical aid societies, is holding a breakfast meeting at Harare's Monomotapa Hotel on Friday (December 9) ...Published: 06 Dec 2016 at 20:53hrs | | by Mike Hamilton
Medical aid societies invite debate on proposed regulatory body
The Association of Healthcare Funders of Zimbabwe (AHFoZ), which represents the country's medical aid societies, is holding a breakfast meeting on Friday (December 9) to discuss the proposed establish...Published: 05 Dec 2016 at 14:42hrs | | by Agencies
Doctors fleece health insurers
Private doctors are reportedly "over treating" their patients by ordering unnecessary procedures like laboratory tests, x-rays and scans to milk health insurers. This is despite the fact that ...Published: 10 Sep 2016 at 07:57hrs | | by Paidamoyo Chipunza
Parirenyatwa calls for joint partnerships to improve health services
Overcoming the country's economic challenges requires the support and contribution of all sectors of the economy, Health and Child Care Minister David Parirenyatwa told the Association of Health Funde...Published: 07 Sep 2016 at 15:32hrs | | by Mike Hamilton
'Dr Parirenyatwa sleeping on duty'
Following the tiff between doctors and medical aid societies, the Zimbabwe Medical Association has laid the blame on Health and Child Care Minister, Dr David Parirenyatwa. Zima had threatened ...Published: 03 Jul 2016 at 16:02hrs | | by Shamiso Yikoniko
Mpilo dismisses claims on 'condemned' private ward
MPILO Central Hospital has rubbished claims that the much anticipated private ward was condemned by Government inspectors saying they are waiting for grading from the responsible authorities so that t...Published: 03 Jan 2016 at 10:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Medical aid societies tell parliamentarians why they cannot pay more
The medical aid industry last year experienced claims loss ratios of 95 percent, meaning that for every dollar of contributions collected 95 cents was paid in claims, leaving little for overheads and...Published: 30 Jun 2015 at 20:07hrs | | by Agencies
More than 1,3 million access Cimas health facilities
Cimas Medical Aid Society group operations executive Vulindlela Ndlovu today (Tuesday) revealed that more than 1,3 million people have made use of Cimas health facilities countrywide in the last fi...Published: 30 Jun 2015 at 20:19hrs | | by Agencies
CIMAS threatens legal action over tariff dispute
CIMAS Medical Aid Society has said it could approach the courts for the resolution of a long-standing dispute over a tariff for the sector.The country's second largest medical aid society hol...Published: 16 Jun 2015 at 08:24hrs | | by Tawanda Musarurwa
Doctors have begun taking legal action against medical aid societies
Doctors have begun taking legal action against medical aid societies over US$14 million in outstanding consultation fees.Although court records were not immediately obtainable, it is understoo...Published: 11 Jan 2015 at 09:31hrs | | by Shamiso Yikoniko
Medical aid bosses 'earning $500 000 monthly'
Top executives at some medical aid societies are earning monthly salaries ranging between US$200 000 and US$500 000 despite declaring that their institutions are insolvent, a senior official has said....Published: 26 Oct 2014 at 07:30hrs | | by Shamiso Yikoniko
Doctors to turn away patients
Doctors will continue charging co-payments and turning away patients whose medical aid societies would have defied the new Government-approved tariffs, Zimbabwe Medical Association (Zima) secretary-ge...Published: 28 Sep 2014 at 12:52hrs | | by Shamiso Yikoniko
11,000 flee their HIV results
ABOUT 11,000 people who were tested for HIV since last year have chickened out from collecting their results, according to the National Aids Council (Nac). The statistics were revealed at th...Published: 05 Sep 2014 at 06:38hrs | | by Leonard Ncube
'90% Zimbabweans have no access to medical aid'
MORE than 11 million Zimbabweans have no access to medical aid as only 10 percent of the population is covered, a development that has seen government working on introducing a National Health Insuranc...Published: 04 Sep 2014 at 07:02hrs | | by Leonard Ncube
Zim govt dumps Aids patients
President Robert Mugabe's government is so broke that it has ordered HIV/Aids patients on medical aid to buy their own Anti-Retroviral drugs (ARVs) as figures of those needing State assistance swell...Published: 15 Apr 2014 at 12:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt orders private doctors, hospitals to scrap co-payments
The government has directed all private medical doctors and hospitals to scrap co-payments for patients on medical aid as a means of harmonising consultation fees.The development was revealed...Published: 04 Jan 2014 at 18:54hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Doctors hike medical consultation fees
Doctors have increased medical consultation fees by more than 100 percent from $20 to $50, while specialists are now charging up to $120 from $60, threatening the existence of medical aid societies wh...Published: 22 Nov 2013 at 02:21hrs | | by Health Reporter
Government finalises medical consultation fee
The government has finalised harmonised consultation tariffs for medical practitioners, a development that is expected to resolve the stalemate between the Zimbabwe Medical Association (ZIMA) and the ...Published: 01 Jul 2013 at 17:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
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