Category: Medical Aids
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iCBT Info
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2024 Comparative Tariff List for Clinical Psychology – Healthman
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New PMB Definition Guideline for Schizophrenia**
PsychMg wants to inform medical schemes, service providers and mental healthcare users of the Prescribed Minimum Benefit (PMB) Definition Guideline for Schizophrenia that was published on the Council for Medical Schemes (CMS) website on the 16 October 2023. This guideline updates the previous PMB Definition Guideline for Schizophrenia, published 30 September 2020. Please Log In on…
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Competition Commission Response to NHI Bill
Implement Health Market Inquiry findings Tamar Kahn | Business Day | 18 May 2023 THE Competition Commission has urged the Health Department to execute private sector reforms suggested by the Health Market Inquiry (HMI), arguing that they are crucial for the government’s National Health Insurance (NHI) plans. The HMI dedicated five years to examining the…
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Meeting with Discovery Health Regarding PMB Applications
Dear Member, A meeting was held with Discovery Health and attended by PsychMG as well as the CPF representatives regarding the latest problems many of you have experienced regarding patient PMB applications. The meeting took place on Tuesday 7th February on Zoom at 5pm. The outcomes from that meeting are preliminary pending final agreements by…
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Threat of Tariff cuts, coding issues, clinical notes, VBC
Dear Members of the CPF, 2020 has been an extraordinary year in many respects and exceptional challenges have presented themselves especially in the professional spaces in which we work, as well as deeply personal adjustments being demanded from many of us. With the advent of the lockdown after our president declared a national state of…
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Response to DH mental health payment letter
Dear colleague, Many of you will have received a notice from Discovery Health recently and we have several letters of concern regarding the content thereof. Please take note of our position on this matter: The CPF in conjunction with Counselling Psychology South Africa (CPSA) have been engaged in a single meeting on Thursday 6th August…
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RE: DH Announcement: Mental Health Payment Arrangement – 20-08-2020
The CPF is concerned with the latest circular from Discovery Health that was sent out on 20-08-2020. The CPF wishes to inform it’s members and other professionals that no agreement has been made with DH around this matter and that they are acting out of their own volition. We remain concerned with issues of confidentiality…
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Member notice regarding Discovery Form and Bestmed Circular
Dear CPF member, An Update on Two Important Matters: 1. Discovery have sent the so-called representing professional bodies a draft version of an extended form of the AT&PVCon Report on the understanding that we may not yet share it with our members despite the purpose being that we want to debate it with our members.…
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Statement Regarding Claims and Telepsychology
Dear CPF Members, You may have been aware of many panic driven messages circulating the informal platforms for social media. Please do not react to anything until you receive an official guidance instruction from the CPF or from the medical schemes directly. Basically at present we continue engaging with Discovery regarding details they have suggested…