The Bestmed Medical Aid scheme sees itself as the obvious first choice for access to quality health care.
Bestmed claims to use the member contributions optimally to secure the best health care, and that it is continually negotiating with service providers for the supply of quality and cost effective services.
What does Bestmed offer?
Bestmed Medical Aid offers a number of different packages claiming to have something to suit every need and financial situation from basic hospital cover to disease management programmes and preventative care.
Bestmed’s most extensive health care coverage, Topcare, provides unlimited coverage hospitalisation as well as many of the regular checkups required.
In addition Bestmed provides international travel cover and a medical savings amount equal to 20% of the annual contributions.
After Topcare, Bestmed offer a range of options providing gradually lower coverage with slightly less savings on offer, all the way down to Vitalcare, which offers 100% of hospitalisation excluding co-payments and levies, and which has no medical savings.
So depending on your needs and financial situation there is a wide range to choose from Bestmed.
Benefits of choosing Bestmed
Bestmed operates on a non profit basis, which, it claims, means that the scheme belongs to, and operates in the interests of, its members.
Bestmed says it is continually appraising its services and products through watching what cover their members use and what claims are made. Bestmed have been providing health insurance cover for 39 years and say it is now covering second generation members who have now become principle members.
Bestmed claim that their uniqueness lies in the fact that they have managed to keep their administration costs at below 6% of contribution fee income and that they are one of the fastest paying schemes in the industry.
Have a look at the health care options Bestmed have on offer and see if any of them suit your needs and financial situation.
