The profile and cost of end-of-life care in South Africa - the medical schemes' experience

South African medical schemes spend billions of Rands each year on medical care costs for their beneficiaries near their end of life. Hospi-centric benefit design, fee-for-service reimbursement arrangements and fragmented, silo-based delivery of care result in high, often unnecessary spending near t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Botha, Pieter
Other Authors: Ramjee, Shivani
Format: Dissertation
Language:English
Published: University of Cape Town 2020
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32460