Board of Healthcare Funders reiterates call for structural reforms to reduce private healthcare costs [SOUND]

# The Board of Healthcare Funders supports the objective of keeping medical scheme contribution increases as low as possible, but says this cannot be achieved through contribution guidance alone. The Council for Medical Schemes recommended that contribution increases for the 2027 benefit year be anchored at 3.8-percent. BHF’s managing director, Katlego Mothudi, says healthcare providers and large hospital groups are effectively price setters, while medical schemes, and their members, are price takers: